{"id":62043,"date":"2025-03-03T08:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62043"},"modified":"2025-03-03T08:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:23:51","slug":"frsc-cracks-down-on-fake-number-plates-seizes-350-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/03\/frsc-cracks-down-on-fake-number-plates-seizes-350-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"FRSC Cracks Down on Fake Number Plates, Seizes 350 Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has impounded over 350 vehicles nationwide for using unauthorized number plates in an ongoing operation aimed at bolstering road safety and national security.<\/p>\n<p>FRSC Public Education Officer, Olusegun Ogungbemide, revealed on Monday that the crackdown, which began in Abuja on February 3, has since expanded to all states, targeting fake diplomatic plates and unregistered vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>He warned against the use of illegal &#8220;fancy plates,&#8221; stressing that vehicle registration must comply with the National Vehicle Identification Scheme (NVIS).<\/p>\n<p>Ogungbemide urged motorists to acquire legitimate plates through official channels, emphasizing the security risks posed by counterfeit registrations.<\/p>\n<p>He also called on the public to report suspicious number plates to the nearest FRSC office.<\/p>\n<p>The enforcement drive remains in full swing as authorities intensify efforts to sanitize Nigerian roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has impounded over 350 vehicles nationwide for using unauthorized number plates in an ongoing operation aimed at bolstering road safety and national security. FRSC Public Education Officer, Olusegun Ogungbemide, revealed on Monday that the crackdown, which began in Abuja on February 3, has since expanded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":62044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59,256],"class_list":["post-62043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-frsc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62045,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62043\/revisions\/62045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}