At least 22 people died while 152 others sustained injuries in 74 road crashes in Ogun State during the last Sallah holidays, the state road safety authority has said.
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FAR too many Nigerians are dying needlessly on the roads. The latest numbers from the National Bureau of Statistics depict an epidemic. In its half-year report, the NBS says that at least 2,673 people died in automobile accidents between January and June 2017.
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The National Bureau of Statistics on Monday said Nigeria recorded 1,279 deaths in 2,503 road crashes in the second quarter of this year.
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The Chief Executive/Corps Commander, Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, Cdr. Seni Ogunyemi, says 35 persons have lost their lives in motor accidents in the state in the last two months.
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has disclosed that during the just concluded Eid-el fitr sallah celebration there was a significant decrease in road crashes and in fatality rates, as compared to year 2016 Eid-el Fitr.
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Barely three weeks into the enforcement of the speed limit device, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it has recorded a noticeable decrease in crash rates on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The FRSC Sagamu Unit Commander, Malam Mohammed Abdullahi, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Sagamu, Ogun, on Tuesday. The FRSC gave […]
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Two persons died, while nine others were injured in an accident at the Onipepeiye village end of the Abeokuta-Siun-Sagamu Expressway on Tuesday. It involved a Toyota Picnic with number plate, KSF 957 BB, and a Nissan Serena marked, 25 OGHA, belonging to the Ogun State House of Assembly. Our correspondent gathered that the Sango-bound Toyota Picnic was coming from Ibadan, […]
Continue reading »The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, has said Nigeria lost three per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to road accident in 2015. The loss, according to him, amounts to $131,817,676,080, adding that the economic losses have been grievous and monumental.
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At least 80 persons have been killed in different auto accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway between January and June 2016. The statistics were obtained from only the cases reported by our correspondents and confirmed by the Federal Road Safety Corps, the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE), the Ogun State Police Command and other agencies.
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