Driver beaten comatose, vehicle vandalised over N500 illegal levy
By Bose Adelaja Lagos—A commercial driver in Lagos, identified as Samson Adewunmi, has reportedly fallen into a coma, on Tuesday, after he was allegedly beaten by suspected garage touts for refusing to pay a N500 levy. It was gathered that Adewunmi’s Mazda bus was also vandalised by the touts at the Volks bus stop, along the […]
COVID-19: Driver who tested positive in Niger on the run
By Wole Mosadomi, Minna A Commercial Driver who has tested positive to the pandemic COVID-19 has escaped from the Isolation Centre in Bida, Niger State and now on the run. Niger State Commissioner of Health and Hospital services, Dr Mohammed Makunsidi has, therefore, declared him wanted and that a special team has been raised by […]
Court remands driver for defiling, impregnating mentally challenged girl
A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Oredo, Edo on Friday ordered that a driver, Bassey Peter, 38, who allegedly defiled and impregnated a mentally challenged girl, 15, be remanded in Oko Correctional Centre. The Chief Magistrate, Patricia Ogho-Braimoh, adjourned the case until March 26 for hearing. Ogho-Braimoh ordered that the case be transferred to a Family […]
Police arrest driver for raising false alarm on herdsman’s attack
The Police Command in Ekiti state has arrested one Mr Olarewaju Oluwaseun, a driver plying Akure -Ilorin route over a false alarm alleging herdsman attack. ASP Abutu Sunday, the Command’s PPRO stated this in a statement on Sunday in Ado Ekiti. Sunday said that Oluwaseun raised false alarm to the Police Control Room, in Ado-Ekiti, […]
Truck driver in court for allegedly swerving into Osinbajo’s motorcade
A 43-year-old truck driver, Abubakar Musa, appeared in a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja, Lagos, for allegedly driving recklessly and swerving into the motorcade of the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. Musa, who resides in Oshodi, Lagos, is charged with reckless driving and obstruction on a public road. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the […]
Protest as speeding driver kills woman in Ekiti
Some residents of Aramoko in Ekiti West Local Government area of Ekiti State on Friday staged a protest over the killing of a woman by a speeding vehicle. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the angry protesters barricaded the major road in the community for hours, thereby causing gridlock while commuters and motorists […]
