EIGHT persons, including a pregnant woman and a naval rating, were yesterday burnt to death after a 33,000 litre tanker loaded with product suspected to be diesel, exploded at Orile Iganmu, in Lagos.

Air Namibia says the rapidly increasing prices of fuel may have had a negative impact on its financial projections but scheduled flights and operations have remained unchanged.

FEDERAL Government and the Lagos State government yesterday maintained sealed lips over the sixteen petroleum tank farms in the state barred from use of the bays to take delivery of imported petroleum products owing to the traffic jam caused by articulated tankers which load from their depots.

The Brong Ahafo File has identified a very scary death-trap, on the Sunyani- Atronie Bridge, which forms part of the road recently commissioned by His Excellency President John Agyekum Kufuor, resulting in a hole in the bridge, which puts fear in motorists who ply the road.

The Angolan Transports minister, Augusto da Silva Tomás, left this Friday for Soyo City, in the northern Zaire Province, to learn about the functioning of the sector.

The Mozambican government's National Traffic Institute (INAV) plans to stop thousands of vehicles in the streets of Maputo, the neighbouring city of Matola, and the central port of Beira, and inspect them for technical defects.

Thousands of commuters were stranded for hours at the Likoni ferry channel after three of the four ferries developed mechanical problems on Thursday.

The City of Windhoek says it is planning to reinitiate a process that will lead to the establishment of bicycle infrastructure.

Bourke Street in Sunnyside, Pretoria, will be closed to motorists from 4 August as construction for the Gautrain continues in the area.

Last week, there was, again, another aircraft incident in Port Harcourt. This time, it involved one of Chanchangi Airlines' B737-200. No one was hurt seriously, and the rapid efforts of the Federal Airports Authority's (FAAN) fire fighting squad saved a potential fatality. There were fire hydrants, especially water and anti-fire foams which sprayed the aircraft repeatedly offsetting any impeding ...

MANY South African motorists are drowning in debt and having their cars repossessed as they did not have a financial "cushion" in their monthly financial budget planning, according to the sales and marketing director of Wesbank, Chris de Kock, who addressed a media briefing on his company's Vehicle Sales Confidence Indicator last week.

At least 10 persons were roasted yesrterday in an early morning accident involving two vehicles at Orile Iganmu bus stop area of Lagos State.

In a bid to curtail the Sky rocketing wave of accidents on Nigerian roads, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has offered free training to no fewer than 2,850 drivers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) between January to June.

The Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc has announced its 2008 mid- year Profit After Tax of N453.9million, representing about N215.8 or 91 per cent rise over the same period in 2007.

Two people died and 17 others were injured following 21 accidents registered from July 14 to 21 on the roads of the Huambo and Caála districts.

FIVE people died on the spot after a kombi they were travelling in was involved in a head-on collision with a haulage truck along the Harare-Masvingo Road on Wednesday afternoon.

THE Ebonyi State command of Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC) in Ebonyi State has proposed a bill, seeking for regulation of commercial motorcycle transportation in the state and has forwarded it to the state House of Assembly for it to be passed into law.

As the public and private sectors refocus their efforts to repair and construct new roads, it is important to determine the best method for the executing agency to implement maintenance of the road network. One of the approaches that could be used in network infrastructure maintenance is asset management. This refers to the comprehensive analysis of the current and future state of road ...

It was yet another tragedy early yesterday morning in Lagos as a petrol tanker ran into another at Orile-Iganmu area of the city, killing 10 persons in the process.

The Federal Road Safety Corps has been able to push for a bill in the National Assembly to seek the allocation of 10 per cent of road construction costs to provision of road safety issues to reduce accidents. Through an idea also canvassed by G-8 countries, FRSC said with the recent $330m grant from the World Bank to Nigeria for the rehabilitation of roads, some percentage should be earmarked for ...

Minister of State for Air Transportation, Dr Felix Hyat, yesterday tasked aviation service operators to do something urgently to address shortcomings in ground-handling operations.

Members of Senate Committee on Works Wednesday expressed shock and disbelief on the existence of bridges and federal roads built in colonial times strewn across Taraba State.

THE Federal Government, yesterday, barred 16 tank farms in Lagos from using the bays to take delivery of imported petroleum products on account of the traffic jam caused by articulated tankers loading from the affected depots.

Road accidents have continued to claim a significant number of Ugandan road users, snatching away the lives of some of the most versatile sections of the population across all age groups.

A group of Mozambican transport operators on Thursday physically prevented a new company from beginning its work, on the grounds that it is a foreign company competing with Mozambican businesses.