Driving licence will be seamless now — FRSC

…As Corps Introduces Contactless Biometric System to End Temporary Licences

…Records Drop successful Road Crash Deaths Compared to 2024

By Favour Ulebor & Favour Jileni, Abuja

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has announced that obtaining a driver’s licence successful Nigeria volition present beryllium faster and much seamless pursuing the instauration of a contactless biometric seizure system, designed to destruct the usage of impermanent licences and agelong waiting periods.

Speaking during the flag-off of the 2025 Ember Months Public Enlightenment and Sensitisation Campaign connected Monday successful Abuja, the Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, said the caller strategy is portion of efforts to afloat digitalise FRSC operations and simplify the driver’s licence process nationwide.

Mohammed disclosed that the Corps has already upgraded its printing facilities to grip accrued accumulation and wide existing backlogs up of November 2025, adding that the caller process volition enactment an extremity to delays successful issuing imperishable licences.

He explained that the exertion volition alteration instant biometric seizure and licence issuance, importantly reducing the vexation experienced by applicants implicit the years.

“It’s seamless now. You don’t request to spot your manus connected a instrumentality to get your fingerprint. The strategy captures it automatically and synchronizes your details with our database. This is simply a contactless biometric strategy that volition revolutionize our operations,” Mohammed said.

“At the extremity of the process, erstwhile you’re captured, you get your driver’s licence immediately. There volition beryllium nary much impermanent licences oregon agelong waiting periods — nary much 2 weeks, 1 month, oregon a twelvemonth earlier receiving your imperishable licence,” helium added.

The Corps Marshal confirmed that the contactless biometric strategy volition commence this month, ensuring that each applicants bask a digitalised, one-stop process integrated with the nationalist database.

On roadworthy safety, Mohammed revealed that the Corps has recorded a diminution successful roadworthy clang fatalities compared to past year.

According to him, information from the 2024 Operation Zero (December 15, 2024 – January 15, 2025) showed 432 deaths and 2,070 injuries from 533 crashes. However, betwixt January and September 2025, determination were 3,433 deaths and 22,162 injuries recorded successful 6,858 crashes, representing a comparative betterment successful roadworthy information outcomes.

He said the FRSC volition intensify its Ember Months operations with targeted campaigns against distracted driving, fatigue, overloading, and the usage of phones portion driving.

Mohammed besides disclosed plans to big the International Conference connected Road Crash Victims for Africa from November 16–18, 2025, successful concern with the KRSD Road Safety Foundation, to fortify post-crash attraction successful enactment with the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety.

During a sojourn to the FRSC Driver’s Licence Print Farm, the Deputy Corps Marshal (Motor Vehicle Administration), Aliyu Datsama, confirmed that the Corps has accrued accumulation capableness to wide pending backlogs.

“We enactment 24/7 present due to the fact that of the backlog we had. It was astir 800,000, but we’ve reduced it to 400,000. Our regular accumulation complaint is 40,000, and successful the adjacent fewer weeks, we’ll wide everything, by the grace of God,” Datsama said.

The FRSC reiterated its committedness to leveraging exertion for improved work transportation and safer roads crossed Nigeria.

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