Tag: NURTW
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Gunmen invade Lagos APC rally, shoot NURTW Vice Chairman dead
The Vice-Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Samuel Kayode, popularly known as Ekpo Kinkin, has been killed at the Agboju area of Lagos State. According to reports, Kayode who was a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress was at a rally organised by the party at Oriade Local Development Area…
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BREAKING: NURTW, okada riders clash in Lagos
Motorcyclists, made up of mostly Hausa riders clashed with members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Lagos State on Monday. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the clash happened in the Iyana-Iba area of Ojo, but Jubril Gawat, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu says the situation has been brought under control. According…
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Just in: Akeredolu orders indefinite suspension of NURTW activities in Ondo
Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has ordered the indefinite suspension of all activities of the state’s chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers. The Senior Special Assistant to Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Special Duties and Strategy, Dr Doyin Odebowale, also ordered the NURTW members to immediately vacate all motor parks across the state.…
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Ondo NURTW members clash, two feared dead
Two persons were feared killed on Tuesday following a clash between two factions of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Akure, Ondo State capital. An eyewitness told Channels Television that the clash which started around 8 a.m was bloody, with some persons matcheted and about two persons feared dead. The witness added…
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Disband NURTW in Lagos State now-Lagos Prominent Indigenes Group Urges SanwoOlu.
The Lagos State Prominent Indigenes Group has urged Governor Babajide SanwoOlu to immediately disband all activities of the Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Lagos State. The NURTW it noted, is fast becoming a menace to the entire people of the state and moving towards becoming another Boko Haram in the country. …
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Why we fought with MC Oluomo’s NURTW boys at Obalende – RTEAN
The Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) in Lagos has called on the state government to urgently intervene in the fracas between it and the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). Some members of NURTW and RTEAN had on Thursday morning at Obalende Motor Park on Lagos Island, engaged in a free-for-all over…
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Police arrest six, invite transport union leaders over Obalende chaos
The Lagos State Police Command, on Thursday, said it arrested six suspected hoodlums responsible for the unrest in the Obalende area of the state. It was earlier reported that gunshots were heard this morning when two rival transport unions –National Union of Road Transport Workers and the Road Transport Employers’ Association Of Nigeria –clashed in…
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BREAKING: Chaos in Lagos State as rival NURTW groups clash [VIDEO]
Rival groups of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) on Thursday clashed in Obalende area of Lagos State. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the clash led to panic in the area as motorists, passengers and passersby scampered for safety. Gunshots were fired and Lagosians have been advised to avoid the area until there is relative…
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Ogun State reiterates ban of NURTW in parks, garages
House of Assembly, in June 2020, passed a resolution suspending the activities of the union
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Lagos NURTW boss, MC Oluomo loses mum
Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Lagos State Council, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya (aka MC Oluomo) has lost his mother, Alhaji Zinat Abebi Omotowo. MC Oluomo told newsmen that she passed on around 7am Thursday. She was aged 87. The Janazah (interment) was held at the Akinsanya’s Lagos home near Ejigbo NNPC…