RIYADH: It is a monumental moment in the history of Saudi Arabia, and a video capturing the first time a driving license has been issued to a female in the Kingdom has gone viral.
The video shows the woman, who already has an international driving license, being given her Saudi license by General Directorate of Traffic (GDT) officials, as per regulations allowing her to drive in the Kingdom.

“Thousands ofr congratulations to the daughters of the homeland, being issued the first license in Saudi Arabia,” the tweet containing the video by @saudalzmanan read.

The GDT has now started replacing women’s Kingdom-approved foreign driving licenses with Saudi ones.

After confirming the validity of foreign licenses submitted via an online portal, and assessing applicants’ ability to drive by conducting a practical test, the first group of women received their Saudi licenses on Monday.

On May 8 it was announced by the General Department of Traffic Director General Mohammed Al-Bassami that Saudi women would be allowed to start driving in the kingdom from June 24.

“All the requirements for women in the kingdom to start driving have been established,” Al-Bassami said in a statement.

Procedures to replace and obtain licenses for everyone are expected to be announced soon.
In September 2017, a royal decree announced the end of a decades-long ban on women driving — the only one of its kind in the world.

Five Saudi universities have launched driving schools for women: Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University in Riyadh, King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Tabuk University, Taif University and Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University.

The Saudi Driving School, at Princess Nourah University, the first for women in the capital, was launched in partnership with the Emirates Driving Institute in Dubai, an established driving school in the region.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 32, is seen as the force behind the lifting of the ban, part of a series of reforms being pushed by the Crown Prince.

His Vision 2030 reform plan for a post-oil era seeks to elevate women to nearly one-third of the workforce, up from about 22 percent now.

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Let's welcome Saudi Arabia to the 21th Century.

Why is English language not written on that license since English language is just a language and moreover the most widely spoken lingua in the world??

Now, to the topic ... this is a good development for the women, no more systematic cages, one day as well we would see a church or a budhist temple in Mecca and Medina too....

May God bless the men who made it possible for saudi women to start driving cars.

Darkness is disappearing gradually in the birthplace of mohammedianism. O Lord, please liberate northern Nigeria from darkness. Let them wake up to realities of this age.

K

Ok

When science and technology conquers religion..
Northern Nigeria is yet to learn from this

Very back ward country


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Buhari will not like dis - in za oda roum

I can imagine the joy on their faces

muslims should be ashamed of themselves.
look at what they are celebrating in this 21st century.

Good development

welcome to the light o yeah women of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia driver's license is partly written in English and our naive and primitive brothers up North are calling western education Haram. Wisdom is the principal thing but these jihadists fail to know that.

OK...
AWON hypocrites...

Just when BORNO state started demolishing brothels...

Hhehehe Saudi is modernizing seriously
But they keep selling wahhabism to stupid muslims abroad
Una go get sense one day for Africa

KingOfAmebo:
Let's welcome Saudi Arabia to the 21th Century.

Like ur own 21st century country is half as developed as their oqn

Saudi Arabia are trying to catch with other free world while our Muslim brothers want sharia hisba police separate bus for their women ,girl of 12 years for marriage

That's good news for Saudi women.

obonujoker:
Why is English language not written on that license since English language is just a language and moreover the most widely spoken lingua in the world??

Now, to the topic ... this is a good development for the women, no more systematic cages, one day as well we would see a church or a budhist temple in Mecca and Medina too....

USE YOUR HEAD FOR ONCE

Wow nice one from the crown prince and Saudi Arabia. Women's rights are human rights.

How many innocent people have been brutally killed because of Wahabism? Until Saudi Arabia stops exporting this virulent ideology, nobody ANYWHERE is safe.

Funnicator:
muslims should be ashamed of themselves.

look at what they are celebrating in this 21st century.

where is your brain?. Is this muslim thing?

Haram!

pls somebody should help me with the answer.How comes I don't see the forehead of Arabia becoming black but Nigeria moslem forehead is black is it that Nigerians Moslem are more into the religion than the Saudis?

Ok, good for the women.

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