The new minimum age for commercial drivers in Nigeria is now pegged at 26. The Federal Road Safety Corps announced this recently. FRSC said underage commercial drivers are responsible for some road accidents in the country.
Christopher Ademoluti, Kwara State sector commander of FRSC while speaking at the inauguration of commercial driver’s licence in Ilorin said the measure would ensure that only mature commercial drivers would have the opportunity to drive and convey others.
“We want to peg the minimum age of a commercial driver in Nigeria at 26 to enable them have the experience, maturity and expertise to drive and convey people, unlike the present situation where we have underage people like 16-year-olds driving commercial vehicles,” he said.
He said the new upgraded National Driver’s Licence(NDL) was capable of reducing road traffic crashes on Nigerian roads.
“With the new driver’s licence, we want to have all the data of the commercial drivers in Nigeria. We don’t want to have a driver, who drives an 18-seater bus, to endanger the lives of the 18 people. It is only one commercial driver that dies where 18 people die”, he said.The FRSC sector commander also said that six driving schools had been approved to train commercial drivers before they are issued with the new driver’s licence.
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