Lagos State Government yesterday said it issued over 479,028 vehicle number plates and driver’s licence in the in the last one year.
The state’s Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde who disclosed this newsmen explained that 288,000 number plates and 191,028 driver’s licence were issued by the Motor Vehicle Administration Agency (MVAA) on a weekly.
According to him, the agency issued a total of 6, 000 new number plates weekly; 24,000 monthly and a total of 288,000 in the last one year.
The Commissioner also noted that the administration had recently re-introduced the Temporary Vehicle Tag (TVT) to assist in providing a robust database and sharing of valuable information about all new vehicles entering the state with the law enforcement agencies, which he said harped on safety as well as security alertness.
“In conformity with the international standard, Lagos State government has launched a newly designed Articulated and Allied Vehicle Number Plate (AVNP).
“The new AVNP comes in a set of three, which will be fixed on the cabin head, body and rear.
”A new website (verify.autoreg .ng) has also been created to enable law enforcement agency to verify the authenticity of vehicle number plates,” he said.
The commissioner added that the administration had simplified the process for the issuance of driver’s licence.
“The period for obtaining a driver’s licence has reduced from six weeks to two weeks. As at February 2020, a total of 191,028 driver’s licenses were processed and issued to their owners in the most seamless way.
“Likewise, there has been significant improvement in obtaining new number plates. It takes just a day to process and obtain a new number plate under the present administration. This is a departure from the obsolete cumbersome registration process,” he added.
Oladeinde also said the Ministry had completed the installation of truck barriers on selected bridges across the state in order to restrict the movement of articulated trucks.
