The Federal Road Safety Corps has directed all construction companies in the country to use the standard road signage code on the highways and construction sites. The Corps Marshal, FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi, gave the directive while presenting some road signage to Julius Berger Plc and Reynolds Construction Company in Abuja, a statement by the corps’ Head, Media Relations and Strategy, […]
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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An unidentified man was confirmed dead on Saturday, while three sustained varying degrees of injuries, following an accident on a bridge along the road between Flower-Garden and Kwara Mall in Kwara State. Our correspondent gathered that the accident, which occurred on Friday night, involved a Renault Scenic car with registration number SHA 630 TW (Kwara State) and a commercial motorcycle […]
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The Federal Road Safety Commission says it will use ongoing annual women’s “August Meeting” in communities in Enugu state to intensify its road safety enlightenment. The Sector Command of the commission in the state, Mr David Mendie, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on Saturday.
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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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