{"id":1286,"date":"2011-08-17T07:54:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T07:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2011-08-17T07:54:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T07:54:20","slug":"shortage-of-number-plates-in-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/shortage-of-number-plates-in-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"shortage of number plates in Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>Kano State Governor Musa Kwankwaso yesterday bemoaned the dearth of vehicle number plates in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Kwankwaso  spoke when he visited the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the  Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Osita Chidoka in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He sought partnership with the agency for traffic management in Kano.<\/p>\n<p>The  governor said his administration had begun the establishment of Standard  Drivers\u2019 Institute for training young men and women to become  professional drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Kwankwaso said the establishment of the institute was part of measures to reduce road crashes.<\/p>\n<p>He called for collaboration from the FRSC for the proper functioning of the school.<\/p>\n<p>The  governor complained of non-availability of number plates in Kano, urging  the FRSC chief to increase number plate allocation to the state.<\/p>\n<p>Kwankwaso asked Chidoka to ensure that Kano indigenes were represented during FRSC recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>Chidoka said Nigeria had enough equipment to produce number plates for its eight million cars and the West African sub-region.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, noted that the FRSC was facing the challenge of changing technology.<\/p>\n<p>Chidoka  said when the new machines in Anambra State and Abuja are fully  operational, shortage of number plates in any part of Nigeria would  become history.<\/p>\n<p>The  FRSC chief said the number plates to be introduced soon would have  special features such as vehicle identification tags and proof of  ownership certificate, adding that they would be sold at N15,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kano State Governor Musa Kwankwaso yesterday bemoaned the dearth of vehicle number plates in the state. Kwankwaso spoke when he visited the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Osita Chidoka in Abuja. He sought<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/shortage-of-number-plates-in-kano\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}