{"id":83895,"date":"2023-03-06T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T15:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T16:46:19","slug":"yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after","title":{"rendered":"Yobe govt lifts ban on motorcycles in 7 LGAs 11 years after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Yobe State Government has lifted the ban on the use of motorcycles in seven local government areas following an improvement in security.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed in a statement released on Monday by Special Adviser on Security Affairs to Governor Mai Mala Buni, Brigadier General Dahiru Abdulsalam (Rtd), and made available to DAILY POST in Damaturu, the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the ban on the riding of motorcycle is lifted with effect from 6th March, 2023 in the seven local government areas of Zone \u2018A\u2019 which include: Bursari, Damaturu, Geidam, Gujba, Gulani, Tarmuwa and Yunusari.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ban is lifted with the following conditions:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMotorbikes are to operate between 6am and 6pm daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMotorbikes are not to be used for commercial purposes \u2018Achaba\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no conveyance of passengers on motorbikes. Only a rider will be allowed without any other person on the motorbike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be proper registration, licensing, and documentation of all motorbikes and riders in the affected LGAs by the Yobe State Road Traffic Management Agency, YOROTA, and the Yobe State Vehicle Licensing Authority,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Other conditions are that: all owners of motorcycles are to operate within their respective local governments only and there should be no conveyance of passengers as violators of these conditions would be sanctioned in accordance with extant rules and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further directed all security agencies to monitor and ensure strict compliance with the directives.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the ban on the use of motorcycles in the state was due to Boko Haram insurgency in the last 11 years, but the relative security being enjoyed across the 17 local government areas of the state has made it possible for the state government to lift the ban.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Yobe State Government has lifted the ban on the use of motorcycles in seven local government areas following an improvement in security. This was disclosed in a statement released on Monday by Special Adviser on Security Affairs to Governor Mai Mala Buni, Brigadier General Dahiru Abdulsalam (Rtd), and made available to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":83893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254,334],"class_list":["post-83895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-yobe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yobe govt lifts ban on motorcycles in 7 LGAs 11 years after - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Yobe State Government has lifted the ban on the use of motorcycles in seven local government areas following an impr ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yobe govt lifts ban on motorcycles in 7 LGAs 11 years after\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Yobe State Government has lifted the ban on the use of motorcycles in seven local government areas following an impr ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-06T15:03:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-06T16:46:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678106035.44.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Yobe govt lifts ban on motorcycles in 7 LGAs 11 years after\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-06T15:03:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-06T16:46:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after\"},\"wordCount\":307,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678106035.44.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Yobe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yobe-govt-lifts-ban-on-motorcycles-in-7-lgas-11-years-after\",\"name\":\"Yobe govt lifts ban on motorcycles in 7 LGAs 11 years after - 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