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Nigeria:
Okada Operators Sue Lagos State Govt Over New Traffic Law
Vanguard, 4 September 2012
A group of commercial motorcycle operators in Lagos Monday dragged the Lagos State Government to court challenging the legality of the new traffic law in the state. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Commercial Motorcyclists Protest New Lagos Traffic Law
This Day, 28 August 2012
Perhaps motorcycle operators, popularly called Okada riders, had thought that when Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, signed the new traffic law on August 2, that… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Okada Riders' Protest New Lagos Traffic Law
Vanguard, 28 August 2012
Hundreds of commercial motorcyclists, popularly called Okada riders, in the early hours of yesterday, barricaded the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway to protest against the Lagos State… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Lagos Road Traffic Law - Okada Riders Want Six Months Sensitisation
Vanguard, 26 August 2012
Commercial motorcyclists, popularly called "Okada" riders say the Lagos new Road Traffic Law is "ambiguous' just as they called on the state government to give six months grace of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
New Lagos Traffic Law - a Mega-City Fights Its Demons
Leadership, 25 August 2012
As the new Lagos State Road Traffic Law takes effect, GEORGE OKOJIE writes that Lagosians are divided over the aptness or otherwise of some of its provisions: Read more »
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Nigeria:
Traffic Law - Commercial Motorcyclists Face Stiff Sanctions
This Day, 23 August 2012
Lagos State Government has urged all the commercial motorcycle operators (a.k.a okada) in the state to desist from plying the restricted routes, warning that any operator found… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Lagos Traffic Laws and Okada Riders
Vanguard, 22 August 2012
My God!!" Exclaimed John As Passersby watched as an Okada rider knocked down a pedestrian at the Berger Yard Bus stop on the Mile-Two - Apapa Wharf road Monday evening. The Okada… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Agberos Outsmart Fashola On Traffic Rules
Vanguard, 21 August 2012
BARELY few weeks after Lagos State government signed the Traffic Bill into law, which among other things restricts officials of the National Union of Roads and Transport Workers,… Read more »