BY ISRAEL OJOKO
The ban or threat to ban commercial motorcycle riders, locally known as ‘okada’, is not a new thing in Nigeria’s commercial city of Lagos.
As locals will say – ‘Na today?’
The government of Lagos state may not be able to completely stop the use of okada as a commercial means of transportation for its over 20 million residents living in a dense landmass of 3,577 km².
Historically, the commercial motorcycle was nicknamed ‘okada’ after Okada Air (a now-defunct Nigerian airline, itself named after the hometown of its owner, Chief Gabriel…
