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IGP Declares Ban On Spy Vehicle Number Plates, Orders Seizure

July 14, 2022 5:22 am

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered an immediate ban on the use of Police SPY Vehicle Number Plates by vehicle owners across the country.

The IGP asserted that the ban has become necessary to forestall the continuous disregard for traffic rules and regulations and other extant laws guiding road use by individuals hiding under the privileges of SPY police number plates.

He has, therefore, directed state commissioners of police to confiscate all SPY number plates currently in use, but said such vehicles should not be arrested unless they are police officers or officers of other …

Gov. Ugwuanyi Turns Back Over 100 Vehicles At Boundary

May 24, 2020 11:05 am

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has prevented over 100 vehicles from entering the state boundary area with Ebonyi for violating the inter-state travel ban.

The Senior Special Adviser on Media to Enugu State Government, Mr. Louis Amoke, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Enugu.

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Amoke disclosed that the governor turned back the offending vehicles on Saturday night at the Amechi Idodo/Nkalagu land boundary area of the two states.

The statement read in part: “On Saturday evening, Gov. Ugwuanyi paid an unscheduled visit to Enugu-Ebonyi land boundary area

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30 Vehicles Burnt In NNPC Filling Station Fire – LASEMA

April 28, 2020 6:31 am

The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, on Tuesday said the fire outbreak at Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) filling station, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos, destroyed 30 vehicles.

The filling station is located at YayaYaya Abatan bus Stop, off College Road, Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State.

Oke-Osanyintolu said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

According to him, a tanker with 33,000 litres of diesel caught fire while discharging its contents into an underground tank at the NNPC filling station.

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1 Dead, Many Injured As Trailer Crushes Vehicles In Abuja

December 11, 2019 11:31 am

A middle- age woman died instantly on Wednesday morning when an articulated vehicle ploughed into several vehicles, at the Kugbo Hill, Nyanyan along the Abuja- Keffi Road.

Eye witnesses said the accident occurred at about 10.00 am, when the trailer developed a brake failure while it was about descending the hill. In the process, the driver lost control of the vehicle, when it crushed the other vehicles on its path.

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The articulated vehicle was said to be laden with an excavator, which it was taking to a construction site before …

Innoson Vehicles Gaining Momentum Despite Challenges

October 27, 2019 7:36 am

Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Co. Ltd, the first indigenous vehicle manufacturing plant in Nigeria, Chief Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma, spoke on how he has been able to weather the storm in the industry and the prospects.

How durable are your products compared to imported ones?
Innoson products are durable. Innoson products are as good as Japanese products, with Mitsubishi engine or some American products. It is not purely a local technology yet, because the engines of the vehicles are still being imported from places like Japan and America. It has all the advantages of Made-in-Japan

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Presidency Claims Using Old Vehicles Despite Yearly Budget

October 22, 2019 2:15 pm

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Despite a yearly allocation for new vehicles, the presidency has claimed that some of them being used for daily operations in the State House are old since they were purchased as far back as 1999.

The Permanent Secretary, Mr. Jalal Arabi, who led a team of officials to appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Special Duties to defend the 2020 budget proposals of the State House said there was an urgent need to replace those vehicles which he claimed had become …

South East Youths Urge Buhari To Ban Vehicles Importation

October 18, 2019 4:51 pm

A coalition of southeast Youth Leaders has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to ban the importation of new vehicles and cars into the country and to support Innoson Motors the only indigenous vehicle manufacturer in the country.

The organization said that following the policy of the Federal Government, the only locally-produced goods should be patronised in order to strengthen the economy.

A statement issued on Friday by the President-General of the organization, Goodluck Egwu Ibem said: “We urge the Federal Government to extend the ban to new cars and vehicles since we have Innoson Motors a dependable company that is manufacturing …

‘Politicians use party vehicles to carry drugs Anambra’

‘Politicians use party vehicles to carry drugs in Anambra’

May 17, 2019 9:14 am

A group, Human Rights Liberty Access and Peace Defenders Foundation (HURIJE) has accused politicians in Anambra state of using branded vehicles to peddle hard drugs and other harmful products.

The group asked the Police to implement its decision of impounding such unmarked vehicles of political parties in the state.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mustapha Dandaura, had earlier this week ordered the arrest and prosecution of persons using unmarked/tinted and masked vehicles without authorization from June 1.

The Board of Trustees’ chairman of HURIJE, Dede Uzor Uzor, in a statement on Friday in Awka, also accused the politicians of using …