The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, has asked the contractors on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to close the U-turns on the road. He added that religious organisations along the expressway should submit their programmes till December to enable the contractors to plan ways to ease vehicular movements. The FRSC boss spoke on Thursday during an assessment […]
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The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, has announced that enforcement of the speed limiters on commercial vehicles will commence nationwide on October 1, 2016. Oyeyemi said this on Wednesday in Abuja during a stakeholders’ meeting with relevant government agencies and transport unions.
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It is mandatory for everybody to have licence to carry firearms and to drive a motor vehicle because both are deadly equipment. Both are projectiles that kill if used willfully or when mishandled, that is the reason people required to use them, said Mr. Derek, a lead trainer with Ford Motor Company.
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Determined to reduce the level of road accidents in the country, The Federal Road Safety Commission said it would recertify about 2,000 drivers of Peace Mass Transit Limited currently undergoing training in Enugu. Southern City News gathered that the retraining and recertification programme was informed by recent road accidents reportedly involving the transport company.
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The Federal Road Safety Corps has said the cost of driving licence remains N6,350.00 and does not expect any driver to pay more than the amount to obtain any licence whose expiry period is three years. It said no price increase had been announced, adding that a five-year duration was only added to the three-year driving licence with a cost […]
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The men of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and Nigerian Police Force were on hand today to prevent what would otherwise have been another tale of woes, bloodbath and carnage. Their timely intervention saved the day when an armed robbery siege on the Ipetu Ijesa-Erin Oke segment of the Akure-Ilesa road in Ondo State at the early hours of […]
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The Niger State Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Tuesday disclosed that seven of its staffs have been incapacitated by speeding drivers in the state. According to the state Commander, Susan Ajenge, this staffs were killed on the highway while trying to enforce road safety regulations adding that they were run down by speeding drivers. Speaking to […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says the need to have a unified road accident data in the country informed the creation of the ‘National Crash Report Information System (NACRIS)’. According to the Corps 2015 Annual Report, the NACRIS is a committee responsible for the collation and harmonisation of road traffic accident data from all agencies generating data on accident. […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has captured about 1,087 driving schools in its standardisation programme with 611 meeting minimum requirements for operation. Corps Marshal of FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi disclosed at an interactive session with representatives of the driving school associations in Abuja, that 1,623 driving school instructors have been registered on the Corps’ portal with 129,198 trainee drivers, while […]
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Tragedy struck on Saturday at Wasimi Village on the old Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway after two women lost their lives, while four others were injured in a road accident. Also, seven persons died on Sunday at Fidiwo, Ogun State end of the Lagos-Ibadan Express in a separate road accident. The Saturday accident involved a Nissan saloon car with number plate, SZ 171 […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps on Wednesday summoned managers of Peace Mass Transit over the spate of road accidents involving the transport company. It said the firm’s vehicles recorded 11 road accidents between January and June this year, resulting in the death of 37 people with 58 others injured. According to the Corps Marshal, FRSC, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, the development […]
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Dreaded ironically by non-law abiding and law abiding motorists, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) set out to ensure road users obey regulations that all boil down to safety of life and property. And when these two powerful agencies fall over each other to make sure guidelines are followed, there can be only one result: […]
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