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‎Commuters plying the Iyana-Ipaja/Iyana-Iba axis of Lagos are currently stranded as commercial bus drivers operating along the route embarked on a strike over alleged extortion by law enforcement and transport regulatory agencies.


‎Vanguard investigation revealed that the drivers were protesting alleged incessant extortion by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA; the Police; the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC; and members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, popularly known as agbero.


‎Some of the commercial bus drivers who spoke with Vanguard lamented that the alleged extortion had continued to increase daily, describing the situation as unbearable.

‎According to them, LASTMA officials frequently impound their vehicles and keep them for an entire day, thereby depriving the owners and drivers of their daily income.


‎The drivers said the development had made it increasingly difficult for them to operate profitably, forcing them to resort to industrial action to draw attention to their grievances.

Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/09/lagos-commuters-stranded-as-commercial-bus-drivers-strike-over-alleged-extortion/

Agbero and miscreants holding sway in a 21st century world.

Tinubu, only subsidy can save you.

Very good and commendable

Heard the drivers are not any better. I do not pity them.

City boy wey no win for Hin own city

Bola tinubu agberos making life difficult for people living in Lagos

Only in Lagos

What do you expect? This is the legacy of one man...

Tinubu is testing his resolve.

All of them are criminal









Oga at Top INOVLVED

More remittance to Agberos as profit will soar

Like they are now waking up... I know las Las commuters will suffers. The funniest things is that it is the commuters that has been suffering all. All high in fuel, extortion and Bill are all inshrine inside the transportation cost.

adenigga:
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/09/lagos-commuters-stranded-as-commercial-bus-drivers-strike-over-alleged-extortion/

Make una increase tfare by 1000%

LagosOrigin:
Bola tinubu agberos making life difficult for people living in Lagos

Only in Lagos

The agbéró in your Onitsha upperiweka worst past Lagos.

Mad dogs with greed at the helm of affairs

Nigeria is a failed country

The system is rotten

What is the relevance of "Agbero" in this century

I wonder how small business owners manage to break even with this harsh economic environment

olaadenigeria:
Like they are now waking up... I know las Las commuters will suffers. The funniest things is that it is the commuters that has been suffering all. All high in fuel, extortion and Bill are all inshrine inside the transportation cost.

If all the drivers are serious they should all come together and say no to Union. It's time Local government to start controling transport affairs. More employment and more money for the government.

May God help us in this country

Lagos is overrated.... Facts

Kailalomo:
Heard the drivers are not any better. I do not pity them.

What did you hear the drivers on strike around that axis do?

k2money:
If all the drivers are serious they should all come together and say no to Union. It's time Local government to start controling transport affairs. More employment and more money for the government.

In Lagos, the state government will not allow that.

They have so empowered and emboldened these unions in Lagos that they do not obey anyone.

There’s also rumors that they remit significant amount of money daily to the state government.

Only another government and party not loyal to Tinubu and APC can make any hard decisions on these miscreants unions.

A federal government can also declare a state of emergency and address the menace.

It’s truly out of hand

k2money:
If all the drivers are serious they should all come together and say no to Union.

You have said it all

When they are serious

Sheuns:
In Lagos, the state government will not allow that.

They have so empowered and emboldened these unions in Lagos that they do not obey anyone.

There’s also rumors that they remit significant amount of money daily to the state government.

Only another government and party not loyal to Tinubu and APC can make any hard decisions on these miscreants unions.

A federal government can also declare a state of emergency and address the menace.

It’s truly out of hand

What of Anambra and Abia that the Government will allow it

When will people there take the bold step?

Lagos state chairman of agboro go lose 1.2 billion today. Various other unit and zonal chairmen go lose 100 million each.sanwo olu bgo lose 10 billion toady and daily for any day drivers no come out

I didn't notice this at all. I just took a bus from Igando to Isheri, along that axis now. ..I mean right now.

LASTMA , KAI & VIO Are The Torment And Torture Arm Of APC Government in Lagos

Let them pay the extortion money,
Is it not these same commercial drivers and conductors that will increase fare if dangote just do mistake add 20kobo on top fuel

Sheuns:
In Lagos, the state government will not allow that.

They have so empowered and emboldened these unions in Lagos that they do not obey anyone.

There’s also rumors that they remit significant amount of money daily to the state government.

Only another government and party not loyal to Tinubu and APC can make any hard decisions on these miscreants unions.

A federal government can also declare a state of emergency and address the menace.

It’s truly out of hand

I laughed whenever I see people like you that belief is APC and Tinubu that control unions. Union don dey before Tinubu and there's nurtw all over Nigeria, in the East they are more brutal than Lagos and some part in South South like Edo and Delta. Union is Union they don't remit anything to government they only pay dues like tax . Just that governors don't want to stop them yet, mind you not Lagos government but government generally

My husband is a commercial driver, Lagos state government is not trying in this aspect at all the drivers are really suffering imagine paying ten thousand naira plus daily for different levels even people earning millions in offices don't pay such taxes.
Our government is very bad, people are working going out very early in the morning as early as 6:00 am and coming back late 12:00am yet they can't afford basic needs. 4 days ago they seize the door of mini bus my husband is driving demanding 30 thousand naira from him he could not work the next day and he has to deliver to the owner of the mini bus. He went and borrow money to collect the door back because they will still seize his bus if he is working without door.He said they were even sharing the money among themselves in his presence yet my children were waiting that when daddy comes back he will give them money for books and other school needs, it is very disappointing.We have a very bad government especially this Lagos state.
Ambode government was better.

Parachoko:
You have said it all

When they are serious

In the North the Union there better they don't harras drivers only Abuja Union that behave like the South