Tag: lastma
100 LASTMA officers dismissed in one year
The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Dayo Mobereola, said that no fewer than 100 officials of the Lagos State…
60,000 applicants seek 1,200 LASTMA job
Amofokhai Audu The grim level of unemployment in the country manifested Monday in Lagos as over 60,000 applicants applied for…
Lagos And The Menace Of ‘Danfo’ Drivers
By Samuel Omojoye For me, it was like a scene from a blockbuster movie. It was such a horrendous scene…
Bus driver knocks off LASTMA officer’s teeth
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 31-year-old commuter bus driver has been arrested and charged before a Magistrates’ court sitting in Ejigbo for…
Lawmakers condemn soldiers’ attack on LASTMA
Eromosele Ebhomele Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday decided to write a letter of protest to…
VIDEO: LASTMA officials display indiscipline, prove Ambode was right
There’s been loads of talks around Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s decision to reduce the powers of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority…
Re: Why Nigeria’s largest city is even less navigable than usual
By Biola Fagunwa A recent publication by The Economist and culled by ThisDay and Punch under the headline of ‘Why…
I’ll deal with officials extorting money from motorists, New LASTMA CEO
Kazeem Ugbodaga The newly appointed Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), Rtd Assistant Inspector…
TAMING LAGOS TRAFFIC CHAOS
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Like every cosmopolitan city across the world, Lagos also experiences gridlock. The gridlock, widely referred to as…
Ambode sacks Arebamen, appoints ex-AIG new LASTMA CEO
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has sacked Young Arebamen as the Chief Executive Officer, CEO of the Lagos…
Lagos lawmakers demand stakeholders’ meeting over insecurity
Eromosele Ebhomele Some members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have advised the state Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, to…
BRT Lane Violation: Soldiers beat up LASTMA officer
Kazeem Ugbodaga Irate soldiermen beat up an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA for daring to take…
Why LASTMA no longer commands respect – Lagos Speaker
Eromosele Ebhomele Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, on Monday slammed the state Traffic Management Authority,…
LASG restricts trailers from plying roads between 6 am and 9 p.m
The Lagos State Government on Sunday restated its determination to restrict trailers and articulated vehicles from plying the metropolis between…
Ambode sacks LASTMA GM
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the removal of the General Manager of the Lagos State Traffic…
LASTMA loses power to apprehend vehicles, can only book offenders
The Lagos State Government on Thursday directed the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) to adopt a system of booking…
Ambode Rescues Accident Victim
In what could be best described as a show of concern, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday alighted…
LASTMA Attack: Female Tricycle Operator Battles For Life
Sunday Akintoye A female tricycle operator in Lagos, Remi Johnson, is currently fighting for her life at the Federal Road Safety…
Tackling Lagos Traffic Gridlock
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Lagos is famous and unique in many ways. It is the sixth largest city in the world…
‘I Didn’t Order LASTMA To Stop Arrest Of Contravened Vehicles, Motorists’
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode says he did not at any time direct the stoppage of arrests of…
Ambode’s Riot Act To LASTMA, KAI
The riot act read to officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, and the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI,…
Ambode Reads Riot Act To LASTMA, KAI
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has read the riot act to officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management…
Demonising Tinubu And The Limit Of Lies
By Lateef Raji Except, perhaps, the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, no other Nigerian politician has been cruelly maligned as the National…
The SURE-P, FERMA Job Scam
Hundreds of recruited officers of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Employment Programme, SURE-P and Federal Task Force, FERMA on Monday staged…
Lagos Guber Election: Continuity Vs Change
By Mac Durugbo In the run up to the coming Governorship and House of Assembly Elections billed for next Saturday…
The Potential Danger Of Funding OPC And MASSOB
By Joe Igbokwe Monday 16, March 2015 was just another beautiful day for me as I hit the popular Ikorodu…
Tension As FERMA Taskforce Takes Over Traffic Control
Kazeem Ugbodaga There was tension at the old tollgate on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Thursday morning as a large number of FERMA/SURE-P…
APC Prezy Rally: 500 LASTMA Deployed, Traffic News Every 15mins
Jamiu Yisa With expected volume of human and vehicular movement expected in Lagos on Friday, 30th January, 2015 for the…
Bloody Day In Ketu, 4 Killed As Container Falls On Buses
Harrison Ebosetale Four persons, including a secondary school student were killed Friday morning at Ketu in Kosofe Local Government Area…
APC Tells Igbos In Lagos To Seek Dialogue
The Lagos Chapter of the All Progressives Congress has advised Ndigbo in Lagos to be cautious, tactful and honest in…