Leading Cement manufacturer, Dangote Cement Plc, on Wednesday launched the Dangote Articulated Truck Driving School in a move aimed at inculcating safe driving culture in its drivers so as to stem the tide of road crashes. The opening of the school in partnership with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the Company management reasoned, would…
Dangote Cement Plc, Ibese has embarked on road safety awareness campaign as well as provision of road safety kits to motorists and commercial motorcyclists to help ensure accident-free road transportation. Also, the Company, as part of its efforts at ensuring accident-free trucking disclosed that it has partnered with the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) to…
Fifteen officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) have been arrested through a joint security operation led by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for allegedly extorting monies from motorists on highways across the country. The officials were arrested on the 12th of August 2021, simultaneously in Adamawa, Gombe, Ondo…
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said that the agency remained a safety corps and not a revenue generating agency. The Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO) Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Bisi Kazeem said this in an interview on Thursday in Abuja. Kazeem said that it had become necessary for the Corps to serve this…
To address challenges related to the ease of distribution and availability of cement across the country, especially among its value-chain service providers, Dangote Cement Plc has rolled out over 2,000 trucks for distribution services. With an investment of $150 million, the company took delivery of trucks, trailers, bulk tankers, tippers, cargo trucks and bulk cement…
The Ikeja Local Organisation of Junior Chamber International has been commended for sensitizing unit members of the Ikeja branch of the National Union of Road and Transport Workers on the global best practices of using the roads and safe driving. The commendations were given by the Unit Head of Special Marshals, Federal Road Safety Corp…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned two officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), over alleged extortion of motorists and gratification. In a 2-count charge brought before Honourable Justice H. Aprioku of the Rivers State High Court 11 sitting in Port Harcourt, ICPC told the court how the…
In the early hours of Monday, men suspected to be bandits/kidnappers attacked two bus-loads of Federal Road Safety Corps(FRSC) officials at Udege junction, along Mararaban-Udege between Adoka, Nasarawa State, killing two officials and abducting 10 others. Four of the officers were injured during the attack which occurred when the personnel were travelling from Sokoto and…
By Olutayo Irantiola We woke up on Friday, April 12 2019 when a Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) van was said to be involved in a Road Traffic Accident (RTA). I was awestruck at the various ways in which our lives have become trivialized as those who should reduce road carnages are the ones leading…
The Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, Badagry Unit, has set all machinery in motion to start enforcing the law against excessive loading of goods by long haul articulated vehicles, trailers along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway leading to the Nigerian–Benin Republic border town of Seme. The overloading trailers along the route who commute in the evenings, late…