The Next Edition
  • Home
  • About Us
  • News
  • Featured
  • Investigations
  • Foreign
  • Special Reports
  • Entertainment
  • Interviews
  • Advert Rate
No Result
View All Result
The Next Edition
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About Us
  • News
  • Featured
  • Investigations
  • Foreign
  • Special Reports
  • Entertainment
  • Interviews
  • Advert Rate
Home Top News

BRT: We Sacked Over 300 Drivers In 1-year To Ensure Commuter Safety – Primero Boss

Next Edition by Next Edition
May 10, 2021
in Top News
Lagos rolls out 300 new BRT buses October
0
SHARES
0
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Whatsapp

Primero Transport Services Limited, operator of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Lagos, said that it had sacked no fewer than 300 drivers in the past year, to ensure the safety of its commuters.

Mr Fola Tinubu, Managing Director of the firm, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, on Sunday, that as part of its efforts to further ensure safety, the firm was one of the foremost transport companies to use speed gadgets to monitor drivers’ speed to ensure that they did not exceed speed limits.

You might also like

US Cuts Nigerians’ Visa Validity To Three Months

3 Children Killed As Train Crashes Into School Van

JAMB Releases Mop-up Exam Results

“We have sacked over 300 drivers in the last one year for different reasons.

“The safety of our commuters is paramount to us and also our assets have to be protected because to replace a bus right now, you are talking about almost a minimum of N70 million.

“It is better we protect them and we are very particular about that,” Tinubu said.

The managing director said that the firm had also shown serious commitment to staff training, especially the drivers of the high-capacity buses.

“We are very particular about training our drivers and we will continue to train them. We also do health checks for them every six months, and we do eye tests”, he said.

On the Cowry card, he said that although the e-Card was a Lagos State Government initiative, it would work better with time as efforts were being made to perfect it.

He further said that the firm was working to provide an efficient and effective transport system that would also be responsive to commuters’ demands and needs.

Tinubu said: “We are bringing vehicle parts worth almost a billion naira into the country and should come in by the end of June or early July, so that we can fix all the buses that are down.

“We want to put more buses on the road and make people’s lives easier as we have over 200 buses on the road now.

“We believe that probably by July or August, we will have over 300-350 buses on the road daily because, by then, the parts will have come in for us to fix buses.

READ ALSO: Over 200 People Killed In Benue By Herdsmen Since January… MINDA Group

“We are working to provide a world class transport service, the main reason we were set up, and we will provide that world class service. We will do everything in out power to ensure that we provide the world class service to the commuters.”

He called for commuters’ patience and cooperation, as the firm was working assiduously to reduce the waiting time to less than between 10 to 15 minutes at bus shelters.

“I know waiting at the bus shelter for an hour or more to board a bus can be very disappointing, especially when you are going to work; but we are working to reduce the waiting time to less than between 10 to 15 minutes.

“We are working on this and doing everything humanly possible to ensure that we satisfy the yearnings and aspirations of our commuters,” Tinubu added. (NAN)

Next Edition

Next Edition

Recommended For You

US Visa Applicants to Submit Social Media Handles, Email Addresses

US Cuts Nigerians’ Visa Validity To Three Months

  The United States Department of State has announced an update to its non-immigrant visa policy for Nigerian citizens. According to a press release issued by the US...

Many Trapped As Train Derails In Lagos next edition.

3 Children Killed As Train Crashes Into School Van

    About three children were killed and six others injured after a passenger train hit a school van attempting to cross a manned level crossing in the...

JAMB Eases Restrictions On Services To Aid pre-2020 Candidates

JAMB Releases Mop-up Exam Results

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of its mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held on Saturday, June 28. In a statement yesterday...

NDLEA Nabs Drug Trafficker, Recovers Three Cocaine Parcels

NDLEA Arrests Lagos Businessman, Wife, Daughters Over Family-Run Drug Network

  The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has announced it has taken into custody a businessman identified as Ajah Johnson Uchenna, his wife Rosemary Uchenna, and their...

Next Post
Bomb Blast Kills Four Soldiers

13 Suspected Boko Haram Terrorists Nabbed In Kano – Army




Related News

Commercial drivers responsible for 65% road crashes – FRSC

Commercial drivers responsible for 65% road crashes – FRSC

NANS wants ASUU to return to negotiation table with FG

Motorists Stranded As University Students Block Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

U23 AFCON: Olympic Eagles Crash Out

U23 AFCON: Olympic Eagles Crash Out




The Next Edition

Office Address

3B, Agboola Aina street, Off Toyin Street,
Ikeja, Lagos.

Quick Contact Details

Phone:
08033018430
Whatsapp:
08051679910

Email:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Categories

  • Aviation
  • Beauty
  • Breaking News
  • Business
  • Columnists
  • Editorial
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Featured
  • Football
  • Foreign
  • Headline News
  • Home & Garden
  • Interviews
  • Investigations
  • North Central
  • North East
  • North West
  • Opinion
  • Parenting
  • Politics
  • Relationships
  • South East
  • South West
  • South-South
  • Special Reports
  • Sports
  • Top News
  • Vox Pops

© Next Edition Business Development Limited

  • About Us
  • Advert Rate
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About Us
  • News
  • Featured
  • Investigations
  • Foreign
  • Special Reports
  • Entertainment
  • Interviews
  • Advert Rate

© Next Edition Business Development Limited