Tag Archives: TRAFIC

Five die while stuck in traffic, with fears of more deaths

Five people have died in what has been described as the worst congestion in the history of the Beitbridge border post. Queues of trucks and other vehicles are reaching 20km  in both directions at the Musina, Limpopo, border crossing — and truck drivers are taking up to nine days to …

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Give us traffic lights so that our kids can also learn -Goaso Chief begs Akufo-Addo

The Omanhene of Goaso Traditional Council Nana Baffour Kwasi Bosomprah is pleading with president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for traffic lights in the area and the Ahafo Region as a whole. His justification is that school children have over years learnt about traffic lights but only see them physically when …

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Nigeria’s roads: ‘My son died in a car accident – now I control traffic’

During her free time, Nigerian Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem controls traffic in the capital, Abuja, eight years after her son was killed in a hit-and-run accident. On the day I met her she was clad in her blue traffic vest, feet spread apart, sweaty arms slicing the air at a frantic …

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