The Lagos State Government has warned operators to paint their commercial vehicles red or yellow with black stripes or face the law. This is against the backdrop of a directive given to the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) by the state government to begin arresting and impounding unpainted commercial vehicles across the state.
The directive states that all minibuses known as ‘Danfo’, including ‘Korope’, should be painted in yellow with black stripes while mass transit buses with two doors were to be painted with approved red colour by operators. Read More...
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June 13, 1955 12:00 AM GMT-4
Hortense Ford arrived at a Ventura (Calif.) reform school when she was 19; her illegitimate daughter Barbara made it when she was 14. After two years in the reformatory, Barbara married, became a “sea gull,” i.e., a fleet follower in San Diego. She was convicted of perjury, prostitution, lewd conduct, vagrancy; she had four husbands, three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Read More...
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says the government might be unable to provide for treasury-funded capital projects next year. She made this known on Monday in her presentation to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Finance at the hearing on the proposed 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework and Fiscal Strategy Paper,
The minister stated that the reason is due to dwindling revenue and payment of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit popularly known as petrol. Read More...