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To tackle the traffic gridlock on roads across the state, Lagos State Police Command has launched a joint operation with other sister agencies. Tagged Operation Restore Sanity On Lagos Roads/Operation Velvet, the police said it would henceforth impound cars of defaulting drivers during the operations. Such violators will also be arraigned immediately in a Mobile Court attached to the joint …

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A petrol tanker this evening along Lagos-Ibadan expressway has exploded around the popular Otedola Bridge. According to eye witness report, many cars have been burnt and many lives lost Thursday evening as travelers were returning to Lagos and workers heading home in the usual evening traffic. Men of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and Lagos Fire Service have been …

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Lions Club members of Zone 6A has concluded an award and recognition ceremony in Lagos during which they donated a yellow branded kiosk to the (FRSC), Ojodu Berger Lagos, to improve the commission’s services to the citizens. The well attended dinner organised as a get-together drew members from other zones to the Marble Brand Hotel, Ikeja Lagos. Also in affirmation …

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The Federal Road Safety Corps is to partner the Standards Organisation of Nigeria in Ondo State to get rid of fake and substandard tyres capable of causing road accidents. The FRSC Sector Commander in the state, Vincent Jack, disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the State Coordinator of SON, Paul Oke, in Akure. “We are in a critical time …

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The Corps Marshal, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, has condemned the unprovoked attacks and molestation of operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps on the highways and vowed to prosecute all those involved. The FRSC, in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, said Oyeyemi’s reaction follows the recent shooting of two FRSC staff and the detention of another …

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Nigeria loses N80bn annually due to road accidents, Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole said on Friday. Adewole who made this known at a handover ceremony of 31 ambulances donated by the Japanese Government in Abuja, said that Nigeria was among countries with the highest rates of vehicle accidents globally. “As a matter of concern, next to Boko Haram Insurgency, …

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The Federal Road Safety Corps on Friday inaugurated a special patrol team code-named ‘Cobra Squad’ in the Federal Capital Territory to check recalcitrant traffic law violators. The Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, said the move came a day before the planned nationwide enforcement of mental stability/psychological examination of traffic offenders. He said the exercise would focus on life-threatening violations such as …

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he Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says that the speed limit device introduced Feb. 1, has reduced the frequency of road traffic crashes “drastically”. “Since we began the full implementation of the speed limit regime on commercial vehicles, the rate of road accidents has gone down. The device has been a huge success,” Mrs Pat Emoerdi, its Plateau Sector Commander, …

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A man was stripped naked at the Mararaba axis of Abuja on Tuesday over incomplete vehicle document. The man, simply identified as John was allegedly “punished” by soldiers after men of the Federal Road Safety Corps invited the soldiers to help them deal with the man. The man who operates short distance taxi cab popularly known as kabukabu in the …

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Tayo Olanipekun Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has said that Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) have been asked to stay off Lagos roads permanently. He similarly admonished officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to stay on the fringes and highways, and not on the main streets in the mega city. He made this declaration on Tuesday at the  …

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