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Trucks Are Sneaking Back On Highways, Says NSE

March 18, 2021 0

The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has appealed to the Lagos State Government and Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) to sustain enforcement of the new Electronic Call-Up System for trucks, to avert gridlocks.

Apapa Will Open To Traffic In October –Sanwo-Olu

August 10, 2020 0

The Lagos State Government says all roads and bridges under construction in Apapa, the nation’s port city, will be completed by October.

Presidential Task Force’s Laxity Worsens Apapa Gridlock

November 8, 2019 0

Trucks are back, and with fury, on Apapa roads and those leading to the port areas, no thanks to laxity on the part of the task force set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to decongest the area.

NPA Unveils Fresh Agenda To Tackle Apapa Gridlock

May 2, 2019 0

As part of its commitment to end the present gridlock along Apapa Ports access roads, the management of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is at the verge of commissioning two transit parks located at Lillypond and Tin can Island Second Gate.

Apapa Gridlock: Lagos Reconstitutes Security Task Force Panel

November 16, 2017 0

The Lagos State Government has re-constituted the Joint Security Task Force, which was established to tackle Apapa gridlock and other security threats brought about by the blockade of major roads by tanker and containerised truck drivers, in the area. The Apapa gridlock, in the past few weeks, had worsened due to breakdown of operations at the ports located along the axis. Rising …

Apapa gridlock: Export business may collapse, operators cry out

October 6, 2017 0

Indigenous exporters have cried out that their business is about grinding to a halt as a result of the difficulties in accessing the Lagos ports due to the near total collapse of roads leading to the port complex in Apapa. Highlighting the problems associated with the deplorable state of the roads, the exporters said trucks bringing produce to be shipped …

Apapa Gridlock Forces 82 Companies to Shut Operations

August 31, 2017 0

The Apapa Local Government Area wednesday disclosed that at least 82 companies had either relocated or folded up in Apapa and its environs which it ascribed to the intractable traffic congestion arising from deplorable roads and unwarranted activities of articulated vehicles. Consequently, the local government authorities canvassed outright enforcement of Lagos Road Traffic Law, 2012 in Apapa and its environs …