Okoda ban kicks off in Lagos

A ban on motorbike transportation vehicles known as 'Okada' kicks off in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos. But why did this hugely popular means of transport end up being banned? Paul Bakibinga asks Lagos' Commissioner of Transportation, Dr Frederick Oladehinde.

Also in the programme: The African Union Special Envoy, Olusegun Obasanjo, tells us that progress in the talks between TPLF fighters and the Ethiopian government is progressing 'very slowly but steadily'; The spokesperson of the military junta in Guinea Aminata Jalloh says leaders will not bow to the UN's request to lift a ban on political protests; And why a visit to Equatorial Guinea by The Gambia's President Barrow raises questions; and the UK Serious Fraud Office has charged Glencore Energy with seven cases of profit-driven bribery and corruption in connection to oil operations in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and South Sudan.

(Photo: Passengers sit on an overloaded motorcycle taxi, popularly called Okada. Credit: PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images)