Interviewer: “Can you drive with your international driver’s licence in Nigeria?”

FRSC commander: “The answer is simply no. Because if you get to section 82 of the national road traffic regulations, it states that no foreign driver’s licence is permitted to be used to drive on our road.

It’s simple. There’s something we call international driver’s permit, IDP. Some of our men go with Nigerian licence abroad.

Yes. When they get there, they accompany their driver’s licence with international driver’s permit. That permit will give them opportunity to process that state’s driver’s licence.

The same thing is applicable if you’re coming here with a foreign driver’s licence.

You’re supposed to come with a permit that you would use for that period, pending the time, not more than three months, to process our own national driver’s licence.”

Federal Road Safety Corps official has clarifies Nigeria’s position on the use of foreign driving licences, stating that only locally issued licences are valid for driving on Nigerian roads.