They are jokers...so 100 k like dat for three carsanother 17k at 8k5 for a driver liscence.Naija I hail dee...dem go just like squeeze naija people.haha

talktimi: I heard from unconfirmed sources that our amiable first lady got the contract for the new number plates and drivers licence. Maybe thats the reason for the rush

you are very correct!!!

addictiv: [size=14pt]what will they do if the plates expire? catch every vehicle on the highway.....this deadline is a joke cos nothing ll happen.....not in this nigeria anyway...[/size]

Nothing will happen? I laugh in Swahili, because 5days to that deadline, Nigerian police will make life hell for the owners of those "out of compliance" cars. If you doubt me ask Okada and tinted cars owners.

I can't stop laughing.

unite4real:

I didn't know there are 31 days in September

Clueless leaders
Non of them can even come up with a simple solution to milk the country! it has always been changing number plates Just wonder the real significance of changing number plates and drivers license . The same thing they did some years back. Non of the so called policy makers/law makers etc etc can really come up with brilliant ideas.
Good luck to Nigeria and Nigerians

Beaf!:
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Good points especially the Driver's license part.

If plate numbers carries ONLY owner's details and NOT the cars then there will be a problem. One example is: When a car is snatched or stolen, all the thief will need to do is remove the plates and install his own. With that it will be difficult to trace him. You making a police report with your plate number will be USELESS because that number will not be on your vehicle anymore.

Number Plate nt Plate Number. Tank me later

Well,all those abusing frsc and FG are all enemy of progress.well let assuming that u bought a new car and u want to use the formal plate number,go to frsc office and change the details of the new car that all,pls for the driver license let come to the neighbouring state cos of population in lagos u might have a little delay pls that is my advise for now,many countries have developed because of this pls don't let us put this country backwards again

Any of u ever wondered what will happen to your tinted glass permit, well u can just kiss them goodbye cos the cops will mess u up when they see one number on ur car and a different number on ur tinted permit......
God pls save us in this country, all to raise money for Gej's election

Ekans: I wonder how they will manage the chaos at the expiration of the deadline.Revolution things..

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let us wait and see how many vehicles they will impound on d highway..as 4 me it has never cross my mind to change my old number to dis baseless new plate number..my advice to those who think they can fool nigerians to be ready for total showdown.the best suld av been that ,let those dat bought cars newly go for d new numbr plates and let d details of cars wit old number plates be updated tru vehicle licence..period

this policy is anti-masses. where are
APC ,Occupy Nigeria,ASUU,NANS and Civil Societies?all of them na hypocrites.

.....speaking in ibo dialet......
"An ibo man will always be an ibo man. Where there is no money, there is no business."

FRSC oga @ d top is turning d Commission into a business center. Very soon, they will start selling shares. He is only jealous of state gov who gets an annual income on d plates.

[b]12 Hours To Get A Driver’s Licence

Some weeks back the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) played a fast one on Nigerians. In a perfectly simulated photo operation, former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s application for the so-called new driver’s licence was processed and he was issued one within minutes as shown on television.
The Corps Marshal, Osita Chidoka, was the perfect host on that day, beaming with smiles and the pictures of the drama splashed on newspaper pages the second day. If, however, you believe that show, I feel for you, as my experience on Friday, August 2, at the Ojodu, Lagos office of the FRSC confirmed that it was a drama.
Truly we’ve been conned and still being deceived. It took me just 12 hours, yes 12 hours, to be “captured”, pardon the bad grammar as though one was an escapee from a maximum security prison. I went through the painful and macabre show simply because of my decision to go through the normal route and refusal to use any backdoor arrangement as I have enough contacts and friends made over the years as a journalist who are high in the FRSC hierarchy.
But I wanted to see what ordinary Nigerians with nobody to smoothen their ways go through in the hands of state agents. My horrific journey began on February 26 this year when I commenced the application process for the renewal of my driver’s licence which was about to expire. Go online and pay the required money, the numerous adverts and leaflets proclaimed with gusto. As a law abiding citizen, I followed the steps meticulously, paid the stipulated charges, and went through the tests.
Thereafter, I took all the documents to the FRSC unit at Ojodu and that was where I knew it was not going to be an easy application. In the wisdom of the officials, they gave me a date that was six good months away, August 2, stamped “Valid & Physical Capture Date, Ojodu Processing Station”. It was comical and all my pleas for a new date fell on deaf ears, but since I had a paper which shows that my application was being processed I was not bothered and as long as I can drive without being waylaid or molested by FRSC officials or policemen, all is well.
Surprisingly, no law enforcement agent stopped me to ask for my driver’s licence during the period. An officer was kind enough to give me his number and I kept on calling just to be in touch with the process, he continually reassured me that nothing will shift my “capture” date. I returned to Lagos on the evening of Thursday, August 1, so as to be able to partake in the exercise the next day. Friends and family members who have been “captured” told me that the 7am time for the exercise is sacrosanct and so I should not miss it for anything.
One actually told me that I stand the risk of being asked to come back in three months’ time if I did not get to Ojodu by 7am. And so I joined the bankers and Lagos Island workers’ train of early commuters and fortunately got to Ojodu at 7:05 am. Morning shows the day, the English say. My first shock was the sheer number of people I met at the office at that early period so much that someone was already arguing with a FRSC man at the gate in order to be allowed to park inside the compound and not outside.
Sensibly, I drove ahead and turned back to pack at the bus stop directly in front of the office but I was not comfortable with the place I parked. As I kept thinking about this, another car parked behind me. Perhaps the driver saw my discomfort at where I parked and as he locked his car after his wife and a child disembarked, he said to me, “Nobody will tow your car away from this place, just relax.”
We went in together and there we were met by a crowd that reminds one of the January 2012 fuel subsidy protests. Confusion and bedlam were the hallmarks of the gathering with no signs or direction to point those of us who were there for the exercise to where we should go. Questions, questions, and more questions led us to a hall where a woman FRSC officer was addressing applicants.
Unsurprisingly, there was no electric supply, meaning no amplifier and so we all strained our ears to hear her properly. Time was 7:30am and the odour emanating from the hall reminds one of putrefying bacteria feasting on a decomposing corpse. As I stood at the entrance, I surveyed the crowd, I saw women with their kids, husbands and wives, young and old all waiting to be “captured.” We all clutched our application documents tightly like refugees waiting to hear if their application for asylum will be granted by the host countries.
“Move back, move back, you are suffocating us,” the woman whose name tag reads Babasanya intoned. Pleading with the applicants, she threatened to stop the process if we kept pressing against her and the three other FRSC officers sitting down. Trust Nigerians, “Why don’t you move back too,” they asked as if they did not know why people had to press closer. Babasanya done, a gentleman started reading out the names of those of us scheduled for that day. Nothing suggested that he was a FRSC personnel as he was in mufti, he called people asking us to answer “present” just the same way teachers taught us in elementary schools.
Things got rowdy at this point as many could not hear their names, but somehow the process continued. I thought it was not going to be my turn until I heard my name, “you’re 228″, the class teacher told me. I memorised it as Officer Babasanya wrote the number and signed on my application. I stepped outside to catch my breath; time was 8:45 am.
An hour after, we were summoned into the hall again where those of us from number 120 upwards were asked to come back by 1pm. Meanwhile, all pregnant women and parents with children were given preference of being attended to first and everyone agreed. That was when I discovered that my case could be classified as neither good nor bad. Not good because some started the process in May and some in June.
Bad because some were there for the second or third time having missed earlier appointments due to lateness or inability to respond when their names were called on those days. There were people from Sango Ota, a border town in Ogun State, Agbara, Badagry, Ijanikin, and other far-flung places. Some have been victims of the system having patronised touts who gave them fake licence culminating in their arrest. Further, we saw some waltzing in and being attended to before those of us whose names were called in the morning.
On my return in the afternoon, the process was moving slowly that less than 60 people have been attended to. Another officer with name tag Aduloju, was the courier walking the distance from the data room to the hall. “Number 60 to 70,” he summoned as I arrived. By 3pm, tempers have risen that there was apprehension if the 300 people whose names were called will be “captured”.
By the way, those who came late or missed their names were given March 2014 as the next appointment. Optometrists were around to conduct eye tests and some applicants were turned back due to bad eyesight. It was shocking that some were teaching them how to beat the system next time. “But they cannot see, how will they drive?” I asked. My opinion was an unpopular one and I wisely walked away.
Fortunately, the generator started working and with the population reducing, the hall became more habitable. Forces of demand and supply took over with sellers providing drinks for people to quench their thirst. At 5:30 pm, I was called to be “captured” and led to a canopy in front of the data centre where we waited again.
Thirty minutes later, four of us entered the powerful room where only two computers were working and the two officers, a man and woman, thoroughly overworked, were slaving away. Officers Babasanya and Aduloju, however, deserve accolades for doing a great job under the kind of suffocating conditions they work.
Two machines for 300 people! My fingerprints were taken and photo too, “Go to room 28 to pick it up,” we were told. Room 28 was in darkness as there was no bulb, it was 6:30pm and our names were entered into another log book. Time now 7pm, a temporary driver’s licence was given to me after parting with N100 for lamination without a receipt. I stepped out of the premises at 7:12 pm. Mr. Osita Chidoka, this system is not working, please dismantle it.

Why does Nigerian govt like changing things without much thought? No new license or plate numbers should be implemented until we have issuedf a national ID card with proper Identification number system. Anything aside this will lead to a new law asking people to pay for new license et al in a couple of years.

I have had to drive with a temporary driver's license which has expired for 7 months nw, and still d new one hasn't been issued to me.

umuahiacctv: +I got mine in BIR umuahia .I paid on friday and was captured the next monday and I got my tempoary drivers lincense same day.

how many people drive cars in umuahia? We are talking about lagos state where you do all that is require and you still don't get it.

Another way for the boys to make money.

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?

Mine and that of my wife we have not collected since october last year, they initially say come back in 2weeks time then later come at the end of the month.

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.

YOU ARE CORRECT

sayit_out1:

how many people drive cars in umuahia? We are talking about lagos state where you do all that is require and you still don't get it.

temporary licence is for 2 months but what happens after it expires. Mine and that of my wife have expired for 8 months now and they keep saying come back.

All dis tinz dey r sayng bout license n plate number,tinted glass claming its 4 security pupose r jst lies, if d gud citizens can reactivate or change whichever d case mybe, wat stops d criminals 4rm doin d same,Most especially dat of tinted glass, it is really fustrating, if i pay the required #20000 wat stops d criminals to do so n go scott free? Unless if and only if i dont understand them! That current FRSC boss is just a smthin else, i travelled along the lagos-ibadan express road the one that was just commissioned by the GCFR(although no sign of work there yet) and i was amazed by the number of FRSC veichles,from redemm camp to the beginning of long brige i counted not less than 20 parked,wit d officials gisting while der was serious traffic yet they call themselves FRSC, so as not to derail this topic too much all i am saying is anything that has to do wit federal BLA BLA r jst lies,if GCFR commissioned a road before the work started on it and after bout a month no sign. Then we are doomed in dis country, sorry to say,



LIES+LIES=backwardness and emblezzemnt of funds.

Is this the way Our President wants to put shoes on our legs and smile on our face? NASS should pls move to stop this self enriching contract awarded to the First Lady. Their policies are killing, they want to start collecting at least 40k from each individuals for Number plate. Do they want us to dump the so called old number plates into the dust bin? So that we can waste our hard earned resources just like that,cos they want to enrich themselves? GOD! Come to our rescue in this country.

Nigeria will only be better when we have sensitive and right-thinking people at the helms of affairs,not all this Retardeens.. They are only after their own forgetting that another person will occupy such posution later. Wicked,cruel and corrupt leaders.They will make laws that ordinary person can't cope with easily. Making the citizens to go through hell before they can move freely or enjoy anything in their own country. But I want to remind them the word of God that says NO PEACE FOR FOR THE WICKED...

Beaf!:
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Good points especially the Driver's license part.

If plate numbers carries ONLY owner's details and NOT the cars then there will be a problem. One example is: When a car is snatched or stolen, all the thief will need to do is remove the plates and install his own. With that it will be difficult to trace him. You making a police report with your plate number will be USELESS because that number will not be on your vehicle anymore.

correct.

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.

Permission to digress Sir!

At "first sight, from a distance", a Plate Number IDENTIFIES A VEHICLE .... not the occupant!

That is the primary reason Plate Numbers ARE and SHOULD be tied to a Car, from the date of first Registration throughout the life span of the Vehicle. Every other thing then follows.

Such Plate Number, including vehicle details (make, Color, VIN, Owners name, e.t.c) are RECORDED in the Vehicle's Log Book (Called Vehicle Registration Certificate in some other domain).

If you buy the vehicle from me, You simply feel out your Name and Address and immediately mail it back to the "Vehicle & Motor Licensing office" who then Update their Database with your own details as the "current owner (while retaining Records of previous owners) and a NEW Log Book is printed (with you as the current owner) and mailed back to you.
The process is repeated ANYTIME the vehicle is sold..... until the Vehicle is SCRAPPED!
You dont need to buy or change anything is the car itself.

AND IT COST NOTHING!

l have used it Gawd knows how many times!

I guess our "Thieves in Government" dont want something as SIMPLE as this, as they cannot not make blood money out of it.

Mr Aboki:
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 like 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]

Right on the Money with this one.


Lastpage!

Well, l think its time Nigerians STOP BEING FOOLISH and allowed themselves being taken for an Eediot.

*We pay a lot for Electricity which we dont get (Fixed charge has just been raised by another 50%!)
*We pay Tax yet all infrastructures are never attended to! Water? Roads? Hospitals
*We pay to arm the Police only to get killed by stray (and intentional) Bullets?
*We allow Assembly Eediots to increase their Salary anyhow, yet they dont contribute anything meaningful to our lives?

[b]And we just MOAN AND SIGH a wee-bit... and that is it?
We MUST FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES ELSE, THESE LEECHES WILL SUCK LIFE OUT OF US WITH THEIR OBNOXIOUS EXTORTIONS IN FORM OF "BUY THIS, BUY THAT"!
OCCUPY NIGERIA. REFUSE TO PAY OR BUY THESE PLATE NUMBERS.
PACK YOUR CARS ON THE STREET, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MAJOR HIGHWAYS!

Can they impound Five Hundred Thousand Cars or more?
Where will they put them? How will they get to them if we Block ALL ACCESS with cars with Old Number Plates?
PARALYZE EVERYTHING AND EVERY WHERE! From September 30, 2013.

We know the Police/VIO/FRSC will be waiting in the wings, seeing another opportunity to extort money!

We cant keep accepting this kind of Abuse from those in Govt who think only about "How much they can make to enrich themselves" ... when making Laws.
It been done elsewhere and it worked.
Spread the message

Send them a message, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH![/b]

Lastpage!

I wonder why the users of the old number plate were not ask to register their number if data mining is the issue?...I see no difference between the new and old number. Except for the colourful map of Nigeria...The revolution is a about to begin... Nigeria brace up!

Revolva: omo e no concern me full time i no get motor





Chief, stop this low self esteem talk, if you dont have a car today does not mean you wont have tommorow, "some people be like how can we contribute money to repair d road when we dont have a car"

"maybe you dont plan to use a car or you think you cant make it" if thats the case pardon me for bin too forward! PEACE

I got my new driver's licence yesteday after d expiration of d 2months temporary one. The new licence's valid till 2016 endin. Got it @ FRSC/VIO Ojodu office after much waitin shaI got my new driver's licence yesteday after d expiration of d 2months temporary one. The new licence's valid till 2016 endin. Got it @ FRSC/VIO Ojodu office after much waitin shaI got my new driver's licence yesteday after d expiration of d 2months temporary one. The new licence's valid till 2016 endin. Got it @ FRSC/VIO Ojodu office after much waitin sha

Osita Chidioka shuld be called to order by the Senate, most drivers license will be valid till next year, so why forcing pple to discard their valid license for his personal money making venture.

There is nothing new about the plate numbers and drivers licence.Same old stuff.This is just to cause more problems for poor citizens.

Yoshi-Master:
I don't understand this license plate thing.

Shouldn't a license plate be registered to a Person AND Vehicle?

Why does it have to be one or the other?

A license plate data pull from a database should give you the owners name and the car registered, what am I missing here?

Watchout sum1else will get the contract to correct this defect. Smh for this country.