Lagos to introduce state-owned driver’s licence

Lagos State Government has announced plans to present a state-issued driver’s licence successful concern with the Federal Government arsenic portion of efforts to amended roadworthy information and postulation regularisation crossed the state.

The Commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, disclosed this on Monday during the 2025 ministerial property briefing held successful Alausa, Ikeja.

According to Osiyemi, the projected inaugural volition springiness motorists the enactment of obtaining either the existing national driver’s licence oregon the caller Lagos State-issued licence erstwhile the strategy becomes operational.

He explained that the determination was designed to beforehand amended compliance with postulation regulations, amended information standards and streamline the licensing process for motorists.

The commissioner besides noted that the caller statement is expected to trim delays often associated with the existent driver’s licence exertion and renewal system.

Providing an update connected licensing activities, Osiyemi said a full of 56,876 driver’s licences were processed during the reappraisal period. The figure, helium said, included 27,067 caller applications and 29,810 renewals handled successful collaboration with the Motor Vehicle Administration Agency and the Federal Road Safety Corps.

He added that 1,158 planetary operator permits were besides issued wrong the aforesaid period.

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