Unnecessary Delays in Drivers Licence Production in Nigeria: Citizens Paying the Price for FRSC Failures

Published by {Eye360newsmedia} In Nigeria today, acquiring a driver’s licence has become a frustrating ordeal. What should ordinarily take weeks often stretches into months, sometimes years, leaving many citizens stranded in a cycle of unnecessary delays. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the body responsible for issuing licences, continues to face widespread criticism over its inefficiency in processing applications. Applicants who have gone through the rigorous steps of documentation, biometric capture, and payment are often left waiting endlessly for their permanent licence to be ready. Instead, they are forced to carry around flimsy temporary slips, which expire quickly and create more problems than solutions. Unfortunately, this delay does not just inconvenience drivers—it exposes them to constant harassment and humiliation from law enforcement officers. Police officers, sometimes unwilling to recognize temporary slips, accuse drivers of flouting the law, leading to ...