Nigerian govt moves to address 'rising' motor accidents on highways

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The government said Lagos-Ibadan, Abuja-Keffi-Lafia and Abuja-Kano highways have the highest number of accident casualties.

The Nigerian government has expressed worry over the increasing number of motor accidents on the nation’s highways.

He said the reports received from the Federal Road Safety Commission , showed that in January alone, the number of people who died from road crashes exceeded the combined number of people who died from malaria and COVID-19. “Those reports are addressed to the Presidency through the Secretary to Government of the Federation, where the FRSC is domiciled but they are copied to my office and we pay attention to these things and we notice unusually high numbers in January 2021, which we compared with January 2020, 2019 and 2018.

The minister stated that from the data analysed three federal highways in the country had the highest number of casualties. He listed them as Lagos-Ibadan, Abuja-Keffi-Lafia and Abuja-Kano highways.

 

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