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  • Most auto-accidents in Nigeria due to fake, expired tyres—FRSC

    Most auto-accidents in Nigeria due to fake, expired tyres—FRSC

    The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) on Monday attributed most road accidents in the country to the use of fake and expired tyres by vehicle owners.

    Mr Ikechukwu Igwe, the Cross River Sector Commander of FRSC, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar on Monday that fake and expired tyres were responsible for more than 3,000 road crashes in the last five years.

    He expressed regrets that most Nigerians still prefer used tyres in spite of the regular sensitisation campaign carried out by the commission on the need to stop purchase of fake and expired tyres.

    “The FRSC would not relent in its sensitisation campaign with a view to educating car owners on the dangers of patronising fake and expired tyres.

    ‘Fake and expired tyres are responsible for most road accidents in the country today; there is a need for drivers to stop buying such tyres.

    “We will intensify efforts in collaboration with the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to raid outlets that trades in fake and expired tyres,” he said.

    He advised car owners to always check the expiry date of any tyre they intended to buy, saying that such checks would prevent them from buying fake ones.

  • Tyre importers decry multiple charges by agencies

    Tyre importers decry multiple charges by agencies

    Tyre Importers Union at the African Tyre Village, Trade Fair Complex, Lagos, on Wednesday decried multiple charges on imported tyres by the various agencies at the ports.

     

    The Vice-President of the union, Mr Okechukwu Ezeifeoma, expressed the displeasure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

     

    He said the “never-ending“ charges on their consignments by government agencies, especially the Customs was killing their business.

     

    The importer urged the Federal Government to intervene in the situation.

     

    “Honestly, we are not happy with the situation. How can we talk of a profitable business when all we hope to make is used to pay charges to this and that government agencies?

     

    “Even within Customs alone, they ask you to go to this section and pay; then pay on that desk and so on and by the time you finish payment, all your profit is gone.

     

    “We are calling on the government to intervene in the situation because if something is not done soon we might just be forced out of business, “ he told NAN.

     

    Ezeifeoma decried the influx of substandard tyres into the country, saying the situation was a threat to the economy as well as lives.

     

    He said importers at the village would collaborate with the relevant government agencies, especially the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to ensure that only quality tyres were brought into the country.

     

    The importer commended SON for setting a target to rid the country of substandard goods within three months, adding that the nation stood to benefit immensely if the target was met.

  • Collapsed building: Angry youths protest victim’s neglect by hospital

    There was chaos at the site of the building that collapsed in Lagos on Sunday, following protests by irate youths over alleged neglect of a rescued victim who was rushed to the Lagos General Hospital.

    The youths had gone to the hospital and took the victim, Mohammed Mukaila, after the doctors allegedly refused to attend to him because they did not pay N10, 000.

    Irritated by the development, they bundled the victim back home, who as a result of the mishap, lost one of his eyes and had become crippled.

    The situation disrupted the operations of officials of Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), who had come to the site to pick samples of the materials used for laboratory test.

    Trouble started when Mukaila’s brother, one Hassan, came to tell the youths who rescued the victim’s life that he has been left unattended at the hospital.

    It was learnt that Hassan, had told them that despite the sum of N10, 000 that he paid, his brother till Monday morning, was left on the wheel chair and only given two injections after he paid the sum.

    As a result of this, the mob stopped the Lagos State Ambulance (LASAMBUS) that was sent to come and carry the victim back to the hospital so that an x-ray can be conducted on him.

    It took the intervention of police officers and other youths, who told them that they were the ones that contacted the emergency response team to intimate them on the development before the ambulance was sent.

    They pleaded with their colleagues to allow Mukaila go with the ambulance else he would die.