By Godfrey Bivbere
STAKEHOLDERS in the maritime industry are advocating for the formation of a committee by all the relevant players in the sector as the solution for the gridlock that has bedeviled the port community of Apapa and its environs.
The stakeholders are of the view that being victims of the effect of the gridlock in terms of economic and health concerns, they would take the issue seriously.
They are of the opinion that a meeting should be called, like that being championed by the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, at the end of the tenure of the Presidential Task Team, PTT.
By Godfrey Bivbere
STAKEHOLDERS in the maritime industry are advocating for the formation of a committee by all the relevant players in the sector as the solution for the gridlock that has bedeviled the port community of Apapa and its environs.
The stakeholders are of the view that being victims of the effect of the gridlock in terms of economic and health concerns, they would take the issue seriously.
They are of the opinion that a meeting should be called, like that being championed by the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, at the end of the tenure of the Presidential Task Team, PTT.
APAPA BLOCKADE: Police, LATSMA pass buck over scuttling of e-Call Up system
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By Evelyn Usman &
Godwin Bivbere
THE relevant traffic agencies responsible for restoring sanity on the Apapa Oshodi expressway, yesterday, engaged in buck-passing over an alleged conspiracy to scuttle the electronic Call-Up system, as the gridlock worsened.
The agencies saddled with the responsibility of controlling traffic in the axis are the Nigeria Police, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and the Lagos Special Traffic Management and Enforcement Compliance Team.
Some aggrieved members of the Association of Maritime Truck Owners, AMATO, had accused the Police and officials of the Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, of Part of the line-up activities, includes Holy Communion Service, with the sermon to be preached by the former Presiding Chaplain, Lagos State Chapel, in Alausa, Ikeja, Very Revd. Ayo Oyadotun, and business sessions, among others, frus
Presidential Task Force And Middlemen Crisis In Apapa By Kehinde Adegboyega
The presidential task force team comprises of Nigeria Police, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the combined team has been working to ensure the objectives of the establishment of PTT achieved.
by Kehinde Adegboyega
Dec 17, 2020
On May 22nd 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari set up a Presidential Task Force Team on Apapa gridlock, with the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo as the chairman and Comrade Kayode Opeifa to serve as the vice chairman.
The objective of its establishment is to return normalcy to Apapa because of the incessant gridlock that is crippling the area, enforce discipline, introduce a workable manual call up system pending the introduction of electronic call-up system by NPA, Dvelip and Deoy a working traffic management system, coordinate and control trucks and tanker drivers who are designated to access the seaport to stay off