Browsing: Commercial Drivers

This was contained in a communiqué issued after a stakeholders’ meeting in the state capital, Calabar, on Monday night.

“The flyover was built to ease traffic flow, but the reverse is the case now,’’  Sikiru Alonge, the new FRSC Unit Commander said on Monday in Ore, Ondo State.

Some drivers on Monday told NAN in separate interviews that the increased cost of living in the country had affected the frequency in which they maintained their vehicles.

Sola Olominu, Chairman of the local government council made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ikole Ekiti.

Thousands of motorists have been trapped for hours as drivers of articulated vehicles block both lanes of the Abuja-Kaduna highway.

The Corps Marshal said: “Jigawa is one of major contributors of road crashes in the nation due to excessive overloading and speeding by commercial drivers in the state.