A middle-aged woman was knocked down to death by a DAF truck while crossing the Onitsha-Awka expressway, Onitsha, Anambra state on Thursday. The accident was said to have happened today around 9 am in front of the Coca-Cola depot. The Sector Public Education Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Pascal Anigbo confirmed the incident. READ … Read more
Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Olayemi Oyeyemi MFR, has alerted Nigerians on the new method hoodlums now use in robbing innocent people. Read Also: How 17-Yr-Old Girl Was Swept By Lagos Flood On Monday In a tweet, the FRSC said the robbers now hijack plate numbers and while you’re trying to … Read more
The rescue operations of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has recovered one dead, and two injured bodies at the scene of Sunday’s tanker explosion at Kara Bridge, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The FRSC Lagos State Sector Commander Mr. Olusegun Ogungbemide, in a statement, said that two injured persons had been moved to the hospital. He … Read more
Three officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps,(FRSC), have been struck to death by mysterious thunder lightning which occurred within the early hours of Wednesday. Ekohotblog understands that the incident which occurred in the town of Ilese, near Ijebu -Ode, Ogun State around 10 a.m followed a drizzling which was accompanied by the lightning that … Read more
Five persons have been confirmed dead and many others injured in a motor accident at Upper-Iweka in Onitsha Anambra state. The Public Education Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Pascal Anigbo confirmed the incident on Tuesday. He said, “Fatal road traffic crash has just been reported at Upper Iweka, Onitsha. READ ALSO: IPOB’s Nnamdi Kanu Reveals … Read more
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said on Monday that 46 persons died in road accidents at the Old Toll-Gate corridor on the Abeokuta-Lagos expressway between January 2014 and May 2020. The FRSC Sector Commander in Ogun, Mr. Clement Oladele, told our Correspondent in Ota that 387 others also sustained injuries. Oladele said that the … Read more
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said one person has died and several others injured in two separate accidents on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Sunday. In a statement by Mr Clement Oladele, the Sector Commander of the corps in Ogun on Monday, the corps said one the accident was caused by a driver who was … Read more
The Federal Road Safety Corps has rescued a pregnant woman who was struggling to drive herself to hospital amid labour pains. The FRSC spokesman, Mr Bisi Kazeem, in a statement on Sunday, said the incident occurred in Lagos. He said the woman later gave birth to a baby girl three hours after being rushed to … Read more
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has established a situation room in its Operations Department to receive reports from field commands on the dreaded Coronavirus Disease. Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeeem, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja said the measure would enhance the flow of information between FRSC headquarters and the field commands. … Read more
The Katsina State branch of the Federal Road safety Commission, FRSC, Saturday raised concerns on the influx of banned motor cycles otherwise known as ‘’Okada’’ from other states into Katsina. Recall that states like Lagos, Nasarawa, and others had banned the operations of Okada in the respective states; hence the affected operators are now shipping … Read more
A group of angry commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as Okada, on Friday, burnt down the office of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Bida, Niger state. The Okada riders were steaming over the death of one of their colleagues, in an incident that occured at the GRA, where Road Safety officials in an attempt … Read more
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Ikeja Unit Command, on Sunday warned Nigerians against use of earpiece while driving. The Assistant Route Commander, Mr Olukayode Ayoola, who gave the warning in Lagos, said that use of earpiece by drivers had caused countless accidents. Ayoola wad sensitising some Christians to road safety rules at the Redeemed … Read more
Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps, (FRSC) Rivers State chapter were spotted doing something inhumane to a pregnant woman in Port-Harcourt city. The pregnant woman was driven by her friend to the hospital as her labour and contractions had began. DON’T MISS: Coronavirus: Lagos-Ibadan Rail Suspended Unfortunately, they were nabbed on the road by … Read more
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has restated its stand on the ban of two passengers occupying the front seat of commercial vehicles across the country. The Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO) Mr Bisi Kazeem disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. Kazeem said that FRSC … Read more
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says a total of 1,086 road crashes involving tankers and trailers were recorded across the country in 2019. The Corp Marshal, Mr Boboye Oyeyemi, made the disclosure while presenting a paper titled Improving Road Safety in Haulage Operations Through Truck Transit Scheme (TTC), on Thursday in Kaduna. The corps … Read more
No fewer than 22 persons in the convoy a newly wedded lady heading to her husband’s home perished on Saturday evening in an automobile accident along Kankia-Danja Road, Katsina State. Seventeen others were seriously injured in the accident in which the bride escaped unhurt. The crash, which was said to have occurred near Kafur town, … Read more
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said one person was crushed to death and 4 others were hurt by a truck on Sunday at Kugbo along Nyanya road, Abuja. The Corps Public Education Police Officer (CPEO), Mr Bisi Kazeem that verified this stated the crash took place at around 2pm. “At about 1400 humans resources, … Read more
During her free time, Nigerian Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem controls traffic in the capital, Abuja, eight years after her son was killed in a hit-and-run accident. On the day I met her she was clad in her blue traffic vest, feet spread apart, sweaty arms slicing the air at a frantic pace, as she directed cars … Read more
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it will begin the conduct of compulsory eye test for drivers to ascertain quality of vision to reduce Road Traffic Crashes (RTC) in 2020. The FRSC Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, said this at the corps operators’ meeting with Zonal Commanding officers (ZCO) on Tuesday in Abuja. Oyeyemi … Read more
Following an auto crash around J3, on Ijebu Ode-Ore Expressway,the Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC) Command in Ogun, has confirmed the death of one person. Mr Clement Oladele, the state FRSC Sector Commander made this known while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Ota. Oladele said that the lone accident happened at about … Read more