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Due to small size of the bus stop just after the newly-open Merchant Bank branch when approaching the Adabraka police station from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle, is causing inconveniences for customers and staff of the bank, as well as commuters wishing to board commercial vehicles.
It is amazing to note that pedestrians using the Avenor road, when heading towards Caprice, have refused to use the newly-built footbridge.
One Mustapha Drammeh was recently ordered by the Kanifing Magistrates Court, presided over by Magistrate B O Jobe, to return some motor vehicles he was said to have obtained by false pretense.
The Volta Regional Chairman of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), Mr. Elvis Gbesemate, has called on the management of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to open up offices in the districts, for easy access to such services by drivers and vehicle owners in the region.
With the signing by Tunisia of the open skies agreement, a number of international low-cost airline companies have started operating services towards major Tunisian airports.
THE government's cancellation of its order of eight Airbus A400M transport aircraft was absolutely the right thing to do, drawing a line through a contract it should have never signed in the first place.
ACTING Local Government and Housing Minister, Bradford Machila has directed the Lusaka City Council (LCC) to rehabilitate the dilapidated roads and drainages around the city before the onset of rains.
Travelling in Nigeria by air is now safe as government's investment in making the sky safe has started yielding fruits, Minister of Aviation, Mr. Babatunde Omotoba, has said.
Property owners along Eric-Moore-Orile-Mile2-Badary-Seme Expressway have dragged the Lagos State government before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over the planned expansion of the Badagry expressway.
With a view to making the island of Djerba more attractive to Libyan tourists, the Tunisian airline company "Sevenair" is launching as of today a new service involving two flights per week between Djerba and the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
On the occasion of the creation of spin-off projects by Tunisair, the Tunisia's flag carrier, and Tunisian National Railways (SNCFT), two agreements were penned on Wednesday in Tunis between Mr. Abderrahim Zouari, Minister of Transport and Mr. Afif Chelbi, Minister of Industry, Energy and small and medium enterprises, Mr. Nabil Chettaoui, president and CEO of Tunisair and Néjib Fitouri, ...
Poor judgement on the part of a bus driver and speeding sent a bus on the ground, leaving one dead and about 36 hospitalised.
FIVE people died on the spot and 11 were injured when an army truck collided with a commuter taxi on the Gulu-Kampala highway yesterday morning.
Aero Contractors is launching new daily services to the northern cities of Kaduna and Jos, from this November, 2009, with an opening offer [one way] of N5, 000. Both services will commence out of Lagos.
Dana Air on Monday announced that it has achieved 100 percent load factor on Enugu-Lagos route carrying 140 passengers in its 140-seater Boeing MD 83 aircraft.
Although it is assumed that all operators and officials operating on the ramp are trained according to ICAO Standards and licensed, there are in our airports, inherent difficulties which pose serious challenges that affect ramp safety, such as:-
The Chairman, Governing Board of FRSC, retired Col. Lawan Gwadabe, has urged Nigerians to demonstrate good character by rendering humanitarian services to accident victims.
Three people sustained severe injuries when the vehicle in which they were travelling in overturned on the Gulu-Kampala highway.
Government has provisionally lifted Mhunga Bus Service's suspension after a State-appointed probe team cleared the transporter of any unprofessional conduct.
Government has decided to terminate the controversial contract to purchase eight military A400 Airbus strategic lift aircraft.
Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu says it would have been "beyond comprehensible" for government to commit to spending such a large amount of money on purchasing eight Airbus A400M military transport aircraft.
THE Uganda National Roads Authority has threatened to cancel Zzimwe Construction Company's sh1.9b contract for the rehabilitation of the Arua-Koboko-Oraba road over poor performance.
Property Owners On Eric Moore Orile-Mile 2-Badary-Seme Expressway, under the aegis of Association of Landlords and Property Owners, have dragged the Lagos State government before a Federal High Court in Lagos, over its planned expansion of the road.
Certainly unimpressed with some of the challenges still plaguing the aviation sector in West and Central Africa, the council of ministers responsible for civil aviation from the two regions has ended its one-day meeting in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire with recommendations on improving the sector, 10 years after the Yamoussoukro Decision was signed.
Cabinet held its ordinary meeting in Cape Town yesterday, 4 November 2009.
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