/ 15 November 1999

LAGOS BACK ON THE ROAD

NIGERIAN commuters, frustrated by the two-day strike of commercial transporters in the industrial capital Lagos, heaved a sigh of relief as buses returned to the road on Wednesday. The transporters, protesting high tariffs charged them by the state authority, had withdrawn vehicles from the road Monday, crippling economic activities in Nigeria’s commercial nerve centre. The state government is said to have agreed to review the tariff downward.