A socio-political group, Kogi Youth Peace Advocate (KYPA) has distributed sanitizers and medical consumables worth N800,000 to commercial motorcyclists (Okada riders) and tricycle (Keke-NAPEP) operators in Lokoja to curtail the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Abdullai Ahmed-Rufai, director-general and founder of the group made this known in Lokoja on Monday while speaking with newsmen […]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says it will clampdown on commercial motorcycle operators on the AYA-Nyanya Road on Monday. Chairman, FCT Ministerial Task Team on Traffic Management, Ikharo Attah made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday in Abuja. FG announces partial closure of Independence Bridge Attah disclosed that the operation would commence on […]
The police in Lagos on Friday arraigned a 29-year-old woman, Ayodeji Idowu, who allegedly threw a stone which hit a motorcyclist on the head and killed him. Idowu appeared before an Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court on a charge of manslaughter. READ ALSO: Woman drags husband to court for suspecting she is having an affair The […]
Three notorious highway robbers who disguise as Okada riders have been arrested by operatives from the Raider team of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Lagos State Police Command. The suspects identified as Kehinde Ramon (20), Afolabi Ibrahim (23) and Sheriff Ogundeji (25) operate around Okokomaiko, Igando, Pipeline and Ajangbadi axis. Commissioner of […]
The Federal Government on Thursday in Abuja presented a sum of N135million to the families and relations of deceased Okada riders who were extra judicially killed by the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), on 20th September 2013 in Apo, district of Abuja the Federal Capital Territory. Eight Okada riders and tea sellers […]