Seyi Adeleye, Special Adviser to Governor Seyi Makinde on Infrastructure, spoke on the issue.
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The Command’s spokesperson, Agnes Ogungbemi, made this known in a statement on Saturday in Osogbo.
Ahmed Umar, the state Sector Commander, said this during the flag off of the last quarter of the year “Ember months” campaign in the state on Tuesday in Abeokuta.
The FRSC Sector Commander in Kwara, Jonathan Owoade, confirmed the casualty figure to the News Agency of Nigeria at the scene of the crashes in Bode Saadu.
The Federal Road Safety Corps said three persons were crushed to death on Saturday while seven others were injured by a trailer along Gwagwalada-Kwali Road in the FCT, Abuja.
Babatunde Ajayi, Director, Traffic Planning, Research and Statistics, TRACE, made this known in a statement in Abeokuta on Saturday.
Two hundred and thirty-six people were killed in 365 road accidents within nine months in Niger State, according to Joel Dagwa, Federal Road Safety Corps Sector Commander in the North Central state.
The Federal Road Safety Corps says that at least 1,618 people have lost their lives through road accidents between December 2018 and February 2019.
The National Bureau of Statistics said no fewer than 1,538 Nigerians died in road accidents in the fourth quarter of 2018.
The Sector Commander, Peter Oke, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Osogbo.
The FRSC said that in a report signed by the Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, and made available to News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.
Three people died, while 26 others sustained injuries in six road accidents in Benue during the just-concluded Sallah celebrations.
Brig. Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, the Director General of NYSC, said this while addressing corps members observing their orientation camp course in Katsina on Monday.
In a statement on Wednesday, the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, said 51 deaths were recorded during the period as against 57 deaths in the same period in 2017.
The NBS disclosed this in the Road Transport Data for 4thquarter, 2017 and 1st quarter, 2018, posted on its website.
He said that already, the commission had sought the support of the members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in preventing their vehicles from overloading in their respective motor parks
A survivor of the accident, Malam Shehu Garba, told the News Agency of Nigeria at Talata Mafara on Thursday that the accidents occurred on Tuesday evening