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INSIDEMAINLAND - Ahead of the June 1st, 2022, commencement of ban on commercial motorcyclists, popularly called “Okada ” riders, the Lagos State Government has concluded arrangement to inaugurate Anti-Okada Squad for enforcement. Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who earlier announced the planned ban on activities of Okada in 6 Local Government
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INSIDEMAINLAND - The Lagos State Police Command has warned commercial motorcycle operators, popularly known as Okada, against their planned mass protest on June 1, following the state government’s ban on their operation in six local government areas of the State. The Lagos state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), SP Benjamin Hundeyin,
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INSIDEMAINLAND - The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit Taskforce has arrested 50 hoodlums and impounded 204 motorcycles. A statement in Lagos on Sunday by Mr. Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, Head, Public Affairs Unit, said the hoodlums were arrested during raids on black spots. It also said that the task force unit
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INSIDEMAINLAND - Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) has said it would not rest on its oars until penchant disregard for traffic rules and regulations reduces drastically among commercial motorcyclists in the metropolis just as it impounded 410 between last week and yesterday. Giving the breakdown of the figure,
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INSIDEMAINLAND - The Lagos State Taskforce on environmental on Monday impounded 91 motorcycles popularly called Okada at Oba Ogunji Road in Ogba, and environs. This is as the state government has moved to take decisive steps on what will be done about these motorcycle riders popularly referred to as Okada, whose
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The Ikorodu Division of the Lagos State Police Command have embarked on a massive raid on commercial motorcyclists (okada riders) in different parts of Ikorodu. Last week, InsideMainland reported that okada riders stoned a businessman to death in the Elepe community of Ikorodu after he accidentally hit a partially sighted man
Read Moreby Damilola Agekameh Not less than a hundred physically challenged people laid siege at the office of Lagos State Governor, Alausa, Ikeja, yesterday to protest against the decision by Governor Sanwo-Olu to restrict tricycle operators popularly called Keke Napep, in 15 councils. The protesters, who were affected by the decision, laid siege at the Governor’s office,
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by Damilola Agekameh The wife of Lagos State governor, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, together with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), has pledged to financially support 15-year-old Mariam Shobukola to get through subsequent stages of her hospital management following her injuries sustained during the Okada, Keke ban protest in Iyana Ipaja,
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by Alli Mustapha Tears rained heavily yesterday, February 5, 2020, as a schoolgirl was killed after being hit by a stray bullet during a clash between Police and Okada riders in Iyana-ipaja, Lagos Mainland. The deceased was said to have been heading back home from school before being hit by one of the ceaseless bullets that were allegedly fired
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by Alli Mustapha The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has vowed not to reverse the ban on commercial motorcycles and tricycles popularly known as Okada and Keke Napep respectively. Sanwo-Olu explained that the decision on the ban was for safety reasons saying; “Let me tell you about the ban which
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