Omar made the appeal while speaking at the 2014 National Conference of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers in Abuja on Wednesday
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The ruling was sequel to a suit filed by Emmanuel Ofoegbu in September 2013, challenging the powers of the FRSC to issue new number plates
Adeoye said that four persons survived the crash, which involved two trucks and one 18-seater Toyota Hiace commercial bus, with registration number BDG 767 XB
A family was suspected to be in the vehicle when it ran under a trailer left in the middle of the road
He said the driver rammed the bus into a stationary truck while driving from Lagos to Benin
Wakawa said the corpses of the deceased had been deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital
Preliminary reports from the FRSC indicated that a tyre from the Dangote Industries Limited truck suddenly pulled out and rammed into the tanker, which caught fire immediately
During the period under review, Chidoka said 13,000 vehicles were booked for various traffic offences out of 36,000 stopped by operatives of the FRSC, while the rest were cautioned and discharged
The FRSC officer, whose name was still being withheld as at press time, was killed by the driver of a Young Shall Grow Motors luxury bus along the Benin-Sagamu Expressway
The President, who spoke on Saturday at the burial of a former National Security Adviser, General Owoye Azazi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, said a survey by the Federal Road Safety Commission had revealed that a lot of crashes occur in the country where there are good roads
The Federal Road Safety Commission, in a traffic alert on Saturday, said the accident involved a truck with registration number XW 471 ABC and a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number XA 911 AAH
Abiodun, who drove a Nissan bus with registration no XB 402 KSH, was sentenced to one year imprisonment for various traffic infractions, including dangerous driving and overloading by a Mobile Court in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital
The Federal Road Safety Commission said the statistics released were as at 4pm on Monday
The Director General of NEMA, Muhammad Sani-Sidi, made the disclosure in his office at the weekend while receiving the communique of the 2012 Annual Media Retreat of Journalists and Information Officers on Disaster and Emergency Management in Nigeria
Chidoka, according to those who have been asking the question, ought to have completed his tenure in office
According to information available to The Eagle Online, the accident occurred at Isara, Ogun State, when the trailer, owned by Dangote Industries Limited, ran into five vehicles
The convicted drivers were sentenced to jail terms of between one and six months
While a version on the social media stated that the bus plunged into the lagoon off the Third Mainland Bridge, another version had it that more than 20 passengers on board the BRT escaped death by the whiskers after their bus lost control and skidded off the bridge at the Ebute-Ero area of the state
According to a traffic alert by the Federal Road Safety Commission, traffic had to be diverted to the Ibadan-Lagos carriageway after the RCCG camp
The accident occurred on Thursday evening on the bridge opposite Michael Otedola Estate on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway