Video: LASTMA officers collects bribes from bus drivers in style

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Commercial Bus Drivers and Conductors to wear Uniform next year

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The Lagos state Commissioner for Transportation, Comrade Kayode Opeifa while speaking at a stakeholders meeting in Lagos yesterday revealed that come 2014 the Lagos state government would be introducing the use of uniforms and badges for commercial bus drivers and conductors. He said the move is geared towards proper identification & effective management of the public transportation sector.

Mexico: Thousands of n-aked cyclists protest aggressive drivers

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Thousands of Mexican cyclists rode n-aked Saturday to protest aggressive drivers and carbon emissions from cars - and the conservativeness of central Mexico's Jalisco state - organizers said.
Some 3,000 demonstrators -- some bare head to toe, others in bathing suits or underwear -- braved catcalls and embarrassed smiles from residents as they biked some 12 miles (20 kilometers) to end up in Guadalajara, the biggest city in Jalisco state.
In downtown Mexico City, nearly 2,000 bikers - n-aked or scantily clad - also demonstrated. Some slapped "fragile" stickers on their bodies or painted messages on their skin: "more bicycles, less pollution," and "the city is for everyone, let bikes pass."

FEC Approves Special Training For VIPs’ Drivers

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A compulsory special training for drivers in the convoys of Very Important Persons, including governors, ministers as well as heads of departments and parastatals, has been approved by the Federal Executive Council.The decision was taken on Wednesday following a report presented to the council by the Federal Road Safety Corps on the regular auto crashes involving the convoys of VIPs.

Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, and his colleague in Mines and Solid Minerals Development, Mr. Mohammed Sada, stated this after the FEC meeting presided over by Vice-President Namadi Sambo. President Goodluck Jonathan is in Darvos, Switzerland, where he is attending the World Economic Forum summit.

How Dangote's Truck Drivers Killed Over 200 Nigerians

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Accident just like its meaning is a mishap or an unforeseen and unplanned event or unfortunate circumstance, often with lack of intention or necessity but when it becomes rampant especially in a suspicious manner and to the extent that, lives are being lost in a reckless way depicting a voodoo approach, in a society where wealth and richness could be traced to spiritualism, then there's an urgent need for authorities to nip it in the bud.

One of these is the consistent accidents from many of the drivers of the man reputed to be the richest in Africa, Alhaji Aliko Dangote. Aside being a multi billionaire business mogul of note whose track records transverse the Almighty FORBES, the man is also inching for the Guinness Books of Records by employing Phd holders as drivers.