…Highway Patrol during a stop and search operation along Ife Road while travelling in a commercial bus, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ayanlade Olushola Olayinka, said. According to Olayinka, the suspect’s responses during questioning indicated that he had travelled to Oyo State to carry out a reveng…

…following the crash, which involved another truck conveying a 20-foot container, a T4 commercial bus marked AAA 723 YF and nine commercial motorcyclists. The agency disclosed this in a statement issued by its Director of Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department, Adebayo Taofiq, and shared on X on Tuesday. According…

…Unit of the Service, headed by Chukwudi Chiketa, the accident occurred when the commercial bus conveying them from Nnewi to Enugu crashed and overturned. Chiketa said the affected commercial bus was carrying 14 passengers, adding that the accident occurred on Sunday. According to him, the emergency call was received by…

…on the Ijebu-Ode/Ore Expressway on Monday claimed nine lives, involving a Delta Line commercial bus and a Sino TruckThe FRSC Ogun Command spokesperson confirmed all nine occupants, three males and six females, died in the incidentPreliminary investigation pointed to speed violation on a wet road during rainfall as the…

…in Zamfara. In September, troops rescued 41 travellers who were abducted after their commercial bus broke down along the Tsafe-Funtua Road. Earlier in the year, attacks were also reported in several communities across the state, including Bungudu, Anka, Tsafe, Bukkuyum, Maradun and Kaura Namoda. In January, five soldie…

…Kwara State. According to reports, the incident occurred at about 18:35hours when the commercial bus with registration number DTH840SA carrying 21 passengers lost control after a tyre bust. The vehicle subsequently somersaulted and later caught fire. Spokesman of the State Fire Service, Hassan Adekunle disclosed that f…

One person was confirmed dead while several others sustained injuries after a commercial bus conveying 21 passengers somersaulted and caught fire along the Oko-Olowo Expressway in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, on Sunday. The PUNCH gathered that the accident occurred around Iye-Maja Junction after the bus, with regis…

…Babafemi wrote, “When they say don’t judge a book by its cover, it’s for a reason. A commercial bus driver spent some time in custody and would have ended in jail because he assumed a bottle of fearless energy drink given him as a waybill package in Lagos to deliver in Ondo state actually contains energy drink.” Drugs…

…to the family WhatsApp group before her phone went unreachable.Gunmen attacked two commercial buses on the Owerri-Onitsha Expressway in Mbaitoli LGA, Imo State, on Thursday, October 1 Several corps members travelling from Ibadan to orientation camps in the South-East and South-South were among those reportedly abducted…

…along the Owerri-Onitsha Road on Thursday, October 1. 20 corps members travelling in commercial buses from Ibadan, Oyo State, to NYSC orientation camps in the South-East and South-South were abducted by the gunmen while travelling on the road. In a statement released, the spokesperson of the command, SP Henry Okoye, sa…

…Imo State Police Command has rescued 10 passengers abducted by gunmen who attacked two commercial buses in Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state. The command also recovered the two buses involved in the incident and intensified efforts to rescue other passengers still in captivity. The buses, travelling from Ibad…

…‎Commuters plying the Iyana-Ipaja/Iyana-Iba axis of Lagos are currently stranded as commercial bus drivers operating along the route embarked on a strike over alleged extortion by law enforcement and transport regulatory agencies. ‎Vanguard investigation revealed that the drivers were protesting alleged incessant extor…

…the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu. Okoduwa said the crash, which involved a trailer, commercial bus and a car, happened near the LNG plant in Ugwu-Onyeama. He said the accident, which occurred at about 3:18 p.m., involved 25 persons, comprising 13 males and 12 females. According to him, 18 persons, comprising seven m…

A commercial bus driver, identified as Ibrahim, slumped and died while conveying passengers in Ibadan. It was learnt that the incident occurred near Apete garage in Ido Local Government Area, around 6:30pm on Tuesday. Sources disclosed that the driver, who operated along the Apete-Sango route, crossed the Apete bridge…

…block the road every evening and collect between N200, N500 and more from taxi and commercial bus drivers plying the highway to the popular Watt Market. Some of the drivers, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the collection had become a daily routine, especially during peak hours when commuters troop to Watt Mar…

Lady Calls Out Man for Touching Her Thigh Inside A Bus Lady confronted a man after he was caught rubbing her thigh with his hand on a public bus. In this day and age, with all the technology we have, it’s honestly shocking that women still face sexual harassment. Just saw a video of an older guy, probably in his late 5…

…opened up about the financial struggles that pushed him into different jobs, including commercial bus driving. Speaking on Talk to B Show, Afolabi said relocating to Badagry made it difficult for him to get acting jobs in central Lagos. He eventually sold his car, worked as a motorcycle rider and later tried tailoring,…

…at about 6pm between Ojodu and Ojuwo-Olijo village, involving a Sharon and a Sienna commercial bus said to be on an inter-state journey. Witnesses said all occupants were ferried into the bush after the buses ran into barricades mounted by the gunmen. "We found two cellphones in the grass around one of the buses; which…

…The PUNCH on Thursday. According to the statement, the incident occurred when a Sharon commercial bus was hit by a trailer at Kwanar Dawaki town along Zaria Road. “The 2IC of the KAROTA patrol team along Zaria Road, Ibrahim Abubakar Ibrahim, said the Sharon commercial bus was stopped by the team for a routine check whe…

…Oke, slams National Assembly members for passing law penalizing anyone who preaches in commercial buses The President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria PFN, Bishop Wale Oke, has slammed members of the Nigerian Senate for passing a law penalizing anyone who preaches in commercial buses Recall that two weeks ago,…

…new developments at the National Assembly on the prohibition of preaching and hawking in commercial buses, where the Senate said that the ban is not a new policy, insisting that the restriction has been in place since 2007. On the other hand, President Bola Tinubu declined to meet with South Africa’s special envoy, dir…

…slams National Assembly members for passing law penalizing anyone who preaches in commercial buses Clergyman, David Ibiyeomie, has slammed members of the Nigerian Senate for passing a law penalizing anyone who preaches in commercial buses Recall that earlier this week, the Senate passed the redrafted Federal Road Safet…

A proposed bill seeking to criminalise preaching in commercial buses has triggered widespread opposition from Christian leaders across Nigeria. SEYI SOKOYA examines their reactions, the arguments for and against the legislation, and the broader constitutional debate over balancing road safety with the rights to freedom…

…or commercial activity,” Akinadewo said. The association argued that preaching in commercial buses has, over the years, remained a legitimate means of spreading messages of faith, hope, morality, repentance and peaceful coexistence across the country. It warned that any law with the effect of criminalising peaceful rel…

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