Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), on Tuesday, urged motorists to avoid night travels and conveying inflammable materials, to save lives and property. FRSC Sector Commander, Enugu State Command, Mr Joseph Toby, gave the advice in Enugu while briefing journalists on the activities to commemorate African Road Safety Day and...
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A speeding truck has crushed two police officers to death in Ado Ekiti while on their way to the office. The incident happened on Monday at Adebayo area of Ado Ekiti metropolis while the policemen were on transit around Ado-Ifaki dual carriage way. The identities of the deceased officers...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Thursday confirmed 11 persons dead and seven others seriously injured in an accident involving a petroleum-laden tanker and others. Corp Commander Stephen Dawulung, Kogi FRSC Sector Commander, made the confirmation in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said it does not receive payment for fines on traffic offenses through Point of Sale (POS) machines. FRSC Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem sais this in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday and made available...
Three persons died and three others severely injured in a lone road accident on Lagos-Ibadan expressway. Mr Ahmed Umar, the Sector Commander of the FRSC in Ogun, confirmed this to newsmen on Monday in Abeokuta. Umar explained that the accident occured in the early hours of Monday and involved...
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corp in Bauchi State, Yusuf Abdullahi, has confirmed that five people were killed in a fatal crash that occurred at Isma Village, along Bauchi – Jos road. He said that two other people sustained varying degrees of injuries...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has drawn the attention of the motoring public, particularly those who are presently using Lexus NX260, Lexus NX3650h and Lexus NX400h+ manufactured between 31 March, 2021 to 26 April 2022 to a faulty programming of the Lane Keeping...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says 75 per cent of road accidents in the country are caused by human errors. Mrs Modupe Ojo-Gbenga, FRSC Unit Commander in Okitipupa, Ondo State, said this on Wednesday during the inauguration of public sensitisation campaign on ember months, held at New Garage....
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Edo Sector Command, says it has deployed 1,265 officers and Special Marshals across the state to ensure safer roads during the Ember months. Mr Henry Benemaisia, the Edo Sector Commander, disclosed this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – Propelled by the ongoing massive construction of new roads and rehabilitation of existing ones across the country, the Acting Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dauda Ali Biu, has engaged the Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI), on the need to tackle...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – As part of its 2022 ember months campaign, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), it to set up mobile courts across the 36 states of the federation to trial road traffic offenders instantly. Speaking before flagging off the ember months campaign at the Kwanawa...
Ogun Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said three persons have died and two others injured in a road accident on Sunday, along Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. The Sector Commander, Mr Ahmed Umar, told newsmen in Abeokuta that the accident involved a Volvo mini truck and a Nissan...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has advised the motoring public travelling through Ondo State from Abuja and those traveling from the western part of the country through the state to the north to ply Akure-Ondo-Ife-Ibadan-Lagos or Lagos-Ibadan-Ife-Ondo-Ore-Benin Road. The Acting Corps Marshal, FRSC,...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – The Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) in Bauchi State has said that road traffic crashes in the state have reduced by 53 percent in 2022. The Sector Commander, FRSC, Bauchi State, Yusuf Abdullahi, who stated this in his speech at the flag-off of the 2022...
Commuters plying the Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway have appealed to the federal and Abia governments to save road users from untimely deaths on that stretch of the road. The commuters made the appeal on Sunday in Aba, Abia when they spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The appeal...
Motorists plying the Abuja-Lokoja Highway may now heave a sigh of relief as the two articulated trucks that combined with flood to render the road impassable at Koton-Karfe in Kogi, have been removed. The two trucks were towed off the road on Saturday. The trucks, one with NNPC inscription...
The Abuja-Lokoja highway on Friday got blocked for motorists as two articulated vehicles broke down adjacent to each other. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has directed motorists to avoid the road for alternative routes not to get into the built up gridlock around Koton-Karfe, Kogi Local Government Area....
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has announced the diversion of traffic on the Lokoja-Abuja Expressway due to the increasing floods in Kogi State. The Corps Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal , Bisi Kazeem announced this in a statement issued on Friday in...
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Oyo State Command, has warned motorists and the public against demonising Ember Months as blood sucking and tears period. The state Sector Commander, Joshua Adekanye, gave the warning on Thursday at the flag-off of Ember Months Campaign in Ibadan. The News Agency of...
Two persons had been burnt beyond recognition, while three others sustained injuries when a tanker laden with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS or petrol) exploded at Ilo-Awela Junction, at Toll-Gate area on Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Mr Ahmed Umar, the Ogun Sector Commander of Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC), who confirmed the development...