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  • Why motorists must be cautious in ember months – FRSC

    Why motorists must be cautious in ember months – FRSC

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has cautioned motorists against flouting traffic rules, and urged them to embrace defensive driving to reduce mishaps during and after the ember months.

    The Ogun Sector Commander, Mr Anthony Uga, who gave the advice in an interview on Friday in Ota, Ogun, noted that refusal to adhere to traffic rules and regulations had been a major cause of road crashes, not only in the ember months.

    The sector commander noted that contrary to the belief of some Nigerians, road crashes during ember months were not caused by evil spirits but by extremism on the part of motorists.

    “They need to embrace defensive driving and be cautious by reducing their speed to prevent mishaps.

    “In addition, motorists should be mindful of anyone driving close by because, such a driver may not be completely sane,” he said in the interview with NAN.

    Uga said that the FRSC would be collaborating with other sister agencies like the police, Nigeria Navy and Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps to check infractions and road crashes across the state.

    He admonished motorists, who usually drove under the influence of drugs and other intoxicating substance, to be careful because the FRSC would soon clamp down on them.

    He said that the corps would collaborate with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to apprehend and prosecute such erring drivers.

  • Motor accident claims FRSC officer’s life

    Motor accident claims FRSC officer’s life

    A fatal accident involving a Federal Road Safety Corps towing van and Dangote truck has claimed the life of its officer, leaving three persons critically injured.

    The accident occurred in the earlier hours of Friday, around 3am, on the Kugbo Nyanya Expressway, near Karu bridge.

    The VIO Area commander in Kugbo, Walter Amechi told NAN that the accident was caused by mechanical failure (brake failure).

    According to him, the FRSC towing vehicle was towing a Dangote truck, carrying cement which had earlier failed brake, to the VIO office in Kugbo.

    He said the driver in the towing van was found dead, trapped in the vehicle, while the driver of the Dangote truck, conductor and one other passengers sustained injuries.

    However, a senior FRSC official who did not disclose his name said that he cannot give any information as he was traumatised.

    He said that the driver was his good subordinate, thereby assuring that a statement would be released to give details of the accident.

    Also the Divisional Traffic Officer, Bawa Danmaigona, told said that on Aug. 31, there was also a serious accident on the Karu Nyanya road, which left several vehicles damaged

    As at the time of this report, the victims were rushed to the hospital and are receiving medical treatment.

    The accident caused a serious gridlock along the Karu, Mararaba and Nyanya axis as waited so long to cross the area the accident occurred.

  • FRSC plans “operation show readiness” for citizens

    FRSC plans “operation show readiness” for citizens

    The Federal Road safety Corps (FRSC) says it will venture into value addition by organising an operation tagged “Show of Readiness” to ensure all citizens are involved in saving lives.

    The Corps Public Education Officer, (CPEO) Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM), Mr Bisi Kazeem, disclosed this to NAN on Sunday in Abuja.

    Kazeem said that the decision was based on the review of the 2022 Ember Months performance and the need to break new grounds and upgrade the operating system.

    He said that the operation would be given adequate media coverage across the 36 states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

    He, however, said that the value addition would include organising simulation scenarios.

    This would be aimed at showcasing a new perspective to the corps operating system on rescue and recovery alertness professionally, he said.

    He added that the approach would involve massive sensitisation campaign across the country.

    He also added that it would be a prelude to the commencement of the corps’ annual special patrol operations tagged; “Operation Zero Tolerance to Road Traffic Crashes.”

    He said it was a comprehensive and hybrid approach targeted at ensuring zero crashes and fatalities during the period and beyond.

    “To achieve the goals, we have deployed public enlightenment teams to visit motor parks.

    ” This also includes Churches, Mosques, town hall meetings and use motorcade for awareness where possible.

    “That said, it is good to also let you know that from the 2022 review, the corps realised that night travels were always prevalent during this time and negative results have been overwhelming.

    “More so, speeding is also known to be responsible for over 60% of crashes, as such, the corps will deploy more operational energy to discourage people from indulging in these deadly road use behaviour, ” he said.

  • Auto crash: Customs officer dies along Lagos-Badagry Expressway

    Auto crash: Customs officer dies along Lagos-Badagry Expressway

    A senior officer with Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) under Federal Operation Unit Zone A, Ikeja, on Friday died in a fatal auto crash along Lagos-Badagry expressway.

    Mr. Williams Manga, Unit Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, told NAN in Badagry that the accident occured in Elijah Bus Stop, Araromi-Ale, Oko-Afo, at about 11.20.a.m.

    Manga said the customs officer was coming from Lagos in his Toyota Camry car with registration number YAB 74 DD when he rammed into a coming Mark Truck with registration number MEK 631 XB.

    He said the customs officer who was on high speed wrongfully overtake and collided with the coming truck.

    “The unit was informed at 11.25.a.m. and we got to the scene of the auto crash at exactly 11.35.a.m.

    “The customs officer had already given up the ghost when we got to the scene.

    “With the help of customs personnel and soldiers around, we removed the body of the victim from the car and deposited it at the General Hospital in Badagry.

    “The accident was caused by speeding and wrongful overtaking by the victim,” he said

    Manga urged motorists not to exceed speed limits and to always have routine vehicle checks, for prompt detection and replacement of faults.

    Contacted, Dr Olatunde Bakare, the Medical Director, General Hospital, Badagry, said the customs officer was brought in dead.

    He confirmed that his corpse had been deposited in the hospital mortuary.

    According to reports, no fewer than 15 persons include a 4-month old child were on July 9, crushed to death while 8 others sustained injuries in a fatal accident along the same Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

  • FRSC to impound rickety vehicles – Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu

    FRSC to impound rickety vehicles – Corps Marshal, Dauda Ali Biu

    The Corps Marshal of the Federal Roads Safety Corps (FRSC), Dauda Ali Biu, has explained that all rickety vehicles plying Nigerian roads will be impounded.

    According to him, the impounding of rickety vehicles takes full effect across the country.

    The order followed a trending video of an old vehicle with mechanical issues plying the expressway with one of the back tyres off.

    In a statement by the corps public enlightenment officer, Bisi Kazeem, the FRSC boss ordered an immediate clampdown on the vehicle and the arrest of the owner.

    According to the statement, the vehicle, with Lagos registration number AA07AG, was not only old but was plying the highway with just three worn-out tyres.

    Biu said the personnel of the agency had been directed to be on the lookout for the car and other unstable vehicles plying major roads in Nigeria, adding that the operation would be conducted nationwide.

    He said FRSC will impose severe punishment on the owner and those using such vehicles.

  • Just In: FRSC orders immediate clampdown on rickety vehicles nationwide

    Just In: FRSC orders immediate clampdown on rickety vehicles nationwide

    The Corps Marshal, FRSC, Dauda Biu, has ordered immediate clampdown on all old and rickety vehicles across the country.

    Biu gave the directives in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM), Mr Bisi Kazeem, on Thursday in Abuja.

    The FRSC Corps Marshal said the directives became necessary due to a trending video of an old car with three worn-out tyres plying the highway in Sagamu, Ogun State.

    He, however, ordered immediate clampdown of the vehicle and arrest of the owner as the act could endanger the lives and property of the public.

    According to him, the attention of the Corps was drawn to the trending video of the old vehicle with mechanical issues plying the expressway.

    “The vehicle with registration number, Lagos AA07AG was not only old but was plying the highway with just three worn-out tyres.

    “The personnel of the agency are directed to be on the lookout for the car and other unstable vehicles plying major roads in Nigeria.

    “The operation will be conducted nationwide and severe punishment awaits the owner and anyone using such vehicles, ” he said.

    Biu said that the new order was part of a continued effort by the FRSC to reduce the occurrence of road accidents on Nigerian roads.

    He said that all Sector Commanders and Zonal Commanding officers of FRSC were to begin enforcing the new order with immediate effect.

    “As a matter of fact, FRSC officials are now authorised to arrest and prosecute anyone who operates rickety vehicles on Nigerian roads.

    “The officials are also allowed to impound such vehicles and tow them to the nearby FRSC office, ” he said.

    The FRSC boss appealed to the general public to work with the corps and report when such vehicle was sighted, to ensure the safety of lives and property.

  • Motorists warned to avoid Bauchi–Gombe road

    Motorists warned to avoid Bauchi–Gombe road

    The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Dauda Biu, has advised the motoring public travelling through Abuja–Yola Road and those travelling from the Northeastern part of the country to the North Central to ply alternative routes.

    Biu said this in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Mr Bisi Kazeem, on Sunday in Abuja.

    He said the advisory became necessary, sequel to a heavy rainfall in the early hours of today, which lasted for some hours and cut off the road.

    According to him, there was a failed culvert at Kalajaga village along the Bauchi-Gombe Road.

    “This is precisely km 118 of Bauchi-Gombe Road whereby the heavy rainfall washed away the culvert linking Bauchi to Gombe, making the road not motorable for motorists.

    “The culvert is completely washed away and the road cut off and alternatives route is advised.

    “In order to ensure safe trips during this season, motorists from Abuja heading to Yola should go through Abuja-Jos-Bauchi-Darazo-Duku-Gombe-Yola.

    “While Motorist from Yola to Abuja: should ply Yola-Gombe-Duku-Darazo-Bauchi-Jos-Abuja respectively, ” he said.

    The corps marshal, however, solicited maximum cooperation of the motoring public on the development, adding that the Corps would continue to update the public periodically on further developments.

    According to him, personnel of the Corps are fully on ground controlling traffic and diverting vehicles at the affected section of the road to ensure safety for all.

  • How road accidents claimed 4,387 lives in 6 months – FRSC

    How road accidents claimed 4,387 lives in 6 months – FRSC

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says a total of 4,387 people were killed as a result of road traffic crashes from January to June across the 36 states and the FCT.

    The Corps Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal, Mr Bisi Kazeem, said this in an interview on Sunday in Abuja.

    “From January to June, a total of 4,387 people were killed as a result of road traffic crashes. The Corps also recorded 14,108 injuries from the crashes within the same period.

    “These crashes occured as a result of night trips, fatigue, route violation, dangerous overtaking, use of worn out/expired tyres and speeding.

    “And you know our men do not operate at night, as such these drivers take advantage of our absence on the road at night to violate established traffic regulations,” he said.

    Kazeem said one of the key reasons for those crashes was that most of them were manned by untrained or partially trained and inexperienced drivers.

    This, he said, was discovered through painstaking investigation and research.

    “Before now, the key issue was their inability to meet basic safety standards.

    “This necessitated the establishment of commands in Tank Farms to ensure that before any tanker loads inflammable products, it must meet the maximum safety standards.

    “At the moment, we can say to a reasonable extent that the compliance level, particularly that of mandatory installation of speed limit devices though not 100 per cent is quite impressive,” he said.

    He explained that the campaign was still on and special patrol operations were organised within intervals to make massive impoundment of vehicles whose owners did not comply.

    “We still issue notice of offence ticket to them and in most cases compel them to get them fixed,” he said.

    Kazeem also said the Corps recorded 14,108 injuries from the crashes and rescued 15,789 persons unhurt in road traffic crashes within the same period.

    He said there was no rise in road crashes involving trucks and tankers, rather there was a decline.

    He, however, said the corps recorded a slight rise in fatalities where a reasonable number of people were killed in a few crashes.

    According to Kazeem, the Corps recorded a total of 4,691 road crashes from January to June.

    To reduce fatalities on the roads, the FRSC boss said the corps was engaging truck owners on the need to have a functional onboard camera for round the clock monitoring of the activities of drivers.

    He added that the Corps had also deepened engagement on the installation of safety valves in tankers to eliminate all incidences of spillage in the event of a crash.

  • FRSC wins NUJ FCT Correspondents Chapel football fiesta, beat FHC 6-5 on penalty shoot out+Photos

    FRSC wins NUJ FCT Correspondents Chapel football fiesta, beat FHC 6-5 on penalty shoot out+Photos

    The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Saturday emerged the winner of  a maiden edition of the  Nigerian Union of Journalists( NUJ) FCT Correspondents Chapel’s three-day football tournament.

    Safety Shooters defeated Federal High Court (FHC) 6-5 on penalty to emerge the winner after the game ended 1-1 in regulation time.

    Meanwhile, NUJ President Christopher Isiguzo led FCT Correspondents Chapel’s team defeated Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)  3-2  in a keenly contested novelty match played shortly after the final.

    The Special Guest of Honor and  Corps Marshal Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dauda Ali Biu who was represented by the Corps’ Public Education Officer Bisi Kazeem commended NUJ Correspondents Chapel for her efforts in organizing the tournament.

    He described the sporting activity by the media as a step in the right direction said the importance of sport in the country cannot be overemphasized.

    Bisi said ” This collaboration is not just beginning it started sometime in 2019 , I remember very vividly we had the finals in one secondary school in zone three and we won that year too”

    “When you talk about collaboration I think apart from our stakeholders that are union members, we want to give it to the journalists having been one of our major stakeholders who have been propagating our deals, when you look at our functions you will see we have a function known as public education that is out to educate the motorists on how to best use our roads and without the media there is no how we can achieve this function very effectively, so we want to say thank for being there always criticizing us constructively and exposing us to alot of Publicity ”

    ” Talking about sports you remember that sometime in 2017 we started walking jogging with one of the immediate past corps marshals, that is Osita Chidoka so we take sports very seriously and this collaboration will continue as far as you continue to call us we will continue to collaborate with you” he added

    Also speaking the National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Christophef Isiguzo commended the leadership of the NUJ FCT Correspondents Chapel describing the tournament as the first of its kind

    He said ” this exercise organised by the correspondent Chapel is the first time and it simply goes to show the kind of leadership we have in the chapel”

    “The leadership believes in coming out with wonderful initiative, executing them and they are this successful so i must have to congratulate the correspondents leadership for putting this together”

    ” At this time I want to congratulate the participating teams that have taken part in this three day competition which started from Thursday till today they have to a very large extent demonstrated the spirit of sportsmanship while engaging in this competition.

    “Indeed it is so exciting that journalists can come together to exercise, often times we work round the clock we hardly have time to unwind, to exercise. Indeed the other participanting teams they engage in this exercise always but today it is good we all abandoned all to come and exercise. It is important we engage in periodic exercise” he added

    While commending the NUJ correspondents chapel for winning the novelty match against the Nigeria Bar Association NBA, he said there is no Victor, no vanquish

    Also speaking at the event Veteran Journalist and Managing Editor Northern Region The Nation Newspaper, Yusuf Alli praised the FCT NUJ Correspondents Chapel for a job welldone.

    Alli described the outing as the first of its kind and looked forward to another interesting tournament in the future.

    Speaking earlier the Chairman NUJ FCT Correspondents, Mr. Jide Oyekunle said the tournament is not tailored to make winning the overall aim but to further boost and strengthen friendly relationships among the participating organizations in the interest of the country.

    He said there is a need to leverage on the sporting activities to bridge the gap
    and align interests across board for the purpose of better working relationships.

    According to him, today marks a milestone in the history of our Union with the successful hosting of our 3-Day Football Tournament as part of activities to formally unveil our football team ” TEAM CORRESPONDENTS ”

    ” In the course of carrying out our statutory responsibilities, we cross each other’s paths by commission or omission, which at times may have resulted in misunderstanding and bickering.

    “This event will further promote the working relationship, collaboration and synergy among the participating organizations.

    ” For us at the Nigeria Union of Journalists, we have played the game and we have  succeeded teaching other participating organizations the rudiments, principles and fundamentals of soccer ”

    The highlight of the event includes; presentation of the trophies to the winning team and sponsors , presentation of medals, inauguration of “TEAM CORRESPONDENTS” , presentation of customized jersey to the NUJ President and others.

    However,  the three days tournament which kicked off on Thursday saw,  NDLEA winning NOA by one nil. Others results on group stage  include; NPF 3-0 NMA, FRSC 1-0 NUJ, FHC 2-0 NBA,

    FHC defeated NDLEA 2-0 to set up the final against FRSC who also defeated NPF 3-2 on penalty after the game ended 1-1 in regulation time

    The tournament was sponsored by Barrister Pelumi Olajengbesi (Managing Partner Law Corridor ), Julius Berger Nigeria, TI’ Bilon Construction, OrderPaper,  Red Cross, FCT FA, FCTA , Hypeplug, GMW Insurance Brokers Ltd,  A New Thing International Foundation and Ti’. Bilon Healthcare Foundation

  • 3 Policemen, FRSC, LASTMA operatives, 14 thugs in police net over extortion

    3 Policemen, FRSC, LASTMA operatives, 14 thugs in police net over extortion

    Police in Lagos State have arrested three of their extortionist officers, their counterparts of the Federal Road Safety Corps and the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority working in cahoots with thugs.

    They were arrested around Mile 2 area of the state between Friday and Saturday alongside their collaborative 14 thugs, police spokesman in the state, SP Benjamin Hundeyin stated on Saturday at Ikeja.

    Hundeyin stated that the arrests were carried out in an operation led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations) in the state, Mr. Fatai Tijani

    He added that the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, Mr. Idowu Owohunwa, set up a taskforce, which conducted the operation following reports of incessant extortion of motorists by thugs and some recalcitrant law enforcement officers.

    “Determined to check escalating cases of extortion on the highways, CP Idowu Owohunwa, set up an enforcement team, with the mandate of raiding spots that have been identified as notorious for such nefarious activities.

    “The enforcement team, which began raids on Friday, was led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations) and comprises tactical teams and provost officers from the state headquarters.

    “The team was at Mile 2 area of the state, a hotbed of brazen extortions,’’ Hundeyin stated.

    He quoted Owohunwa as warning that any law enforcement personnel, irrespective of agency, found complicit in extortion racketeering, would be arrested and dealt with in accordance with the law.

    “The CP promises motorists that the enforcement team would sustain the raids and replicate same in other parts of the state until total sanity is restored,’’ Hundeyin also stated.