eagle,eye:
Thought one can contimue with the old drivers licence untill it expires and you will then renew with the new one.....?
Anyway, am going to ask my neighbour who works for FRSC.

otokx: Was told to pick up my new drivers licence at RSBIR office at william jumbo street by end of may. Went there end of June and its not ready; repeated end of July same story. Met a guy who has been doing same since February. Why do our leaders punish us wickedly?

wola44: The driver license is a false, The processing time is not 2-3 weeks as mentioned , FRSC office gave me next year February 2014 to come back and capture, what a shame to Nigeria ( 9 months to process driver license)

talk true: The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) said that the old number plates and the old driver’s licence would expire by Sept. 30, 2013.
The commission said, “By October 1, 2013, it will be an offence for any owner or operator of a vehicle to still have affixed, old number plates on his/her vehicle as the deadline for the use of old plates is September 30, 2013.
When the new plates were introduced last year, the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive Officer, FRSC, Mr. Osita Chidoka, had explained that it was to ensure the safety and security of Nigerians and that the new plates were intended to tie a number plate to an individual or organisation. “Before, it was possible for you to sell your car with your number plate; but nowadays, number plates are registered in the name of the owner”
http://www.punchng.com/news/old-number-plates-invalid-by-sept-30-2013/
http://news.naij.com/37704.html


My view on the plate numbers:
The policy of attaching number plate to an individual is not the best. Plate number should be tied to a vehicle just like the Chassis number.
I am looking at a scenario where a police man stops a vehicle. The officer in the car will immediately key in the plate number of the vehicle in any database equipment on him, and the details of that car and the owner will appear. They can now approach the driver for confirmation and then, off you go.
But if a plate number is attached to an individual, maybe I registered my Toyota corolla and later sold it to buy a Honda jeep and I will then transfer the plate number to the jeep. When a police man stops me, the details of the number on the jeep will be for the Toyota corolla.
Unless they expect us to throw away the plate number of the car being sold and obtain another one for the newly purchased car which means that you will start seeing plate numbers in the dust bin.

On the issue of driver’s license:
Every driver’s license expires after 4 years. If the corps marshal introduces a new driver’s license, all he need to do is to give a space of 4 yrs from the date they started producing the new one. Anybody that comes for renewal or new one will get the new driver’s license and after 4 years which you know everybody must have renewed their own thereby getting the required one, you can now enforce it. But the problem is that the corps marshal wants to make money in his own time as he introduced it by giving only 1 year. The transformation in aviation industry today started when Kema chikwe was there. That of telecoms also started even before Obj became president but was completed during his tenure, and so many others. If he is not interested in the money, he should consider people whose driver’s license are still valid and will expire next year.

Whats your opinion?

wola44: The driver license is a false, The processing time is not 2-3 weeks as mentioned , FRSC office gave me next year February 2014 to come back and capture, what a shame to Nigeria ( 9 months to process driver license)

miqos02: you are lucky, i have been processing since 2011

Mr Aboki:


[b]On the issue of Plate Numbers: I have to disagree with you here. I still have my plate number from my Vehicle inCanada which I sold before leaving. The Plate is tied to me. When I sold the vehicle, the owner simply had to go get new plates. Whenever I decide to go back to Canada and get a new car, I will simply append my new plates to the car and register the plates to the new car. Ths is not a problem at all. the Plates serves as an Identifier to the owner of a vehicle. Remember, a vehicle cannot commit a crime, its the owner or the driver that is held liable for whatever offences that is commited with a car. This policy is very welcomed.

On the New operators License however, I have to agree with you. This is a very silly move aimed solely at making money. Licences are already a renewable document and thus this New Licence should have been done using a phase out system sort of liek they did with the international passport. This move just shows that who ever is incharge of this licence scheme is a greedy scheming person. [/b]

danherb: I am looking at the situation where the first party wants to sale a car that has the number inscribed all over the body of the car. When the 2nd party who now buys the car has a new plate number different from the one inscribed on the car. Please how can we reconcile this problem of having a plate number different from the one inscribed on the body car by the 1st party?