Lagos Set To Launch Own Driver’s Licence

To ensure sanity and safety on roads across its metropolis. Lagos State government has concluded plans to launch a state-owned driver’s licence in collaboration with the federal government.

The state’s commissioner for Transportation, Oluwaseun Osiyemi, disclosed this at the 2026 annual ministerial briefing, commemorating the seventh year in the second term in office of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Dr Obafemi, held at Alausa, Ikeja.

Osiyemi said the Lagos State-owned license would be launched in a few weeks, adding that the project, which would be implemented in collaboration with the federal government, is optional for motorists to obtain either the Federal license or the new state driver’s license.

Osiyemi added that it would ensure prompt issuance, unlike the usual delays in the existing process.

Dwelling on the Lagos Rail Mass Transit, LRMT, he said the Lagos Green Line project is a 68-kilometre rail connecting Marina to Lekki Free Trade Zone through Victoria Island, Lekki, Ajah, Sangotedo, and ending at Free Trade Zone, stretching with about 17 stations.

A Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, Osiyemi said, has been signed with China Harbour Engineering Company, CHEC, for execution.

“The Green Line, designed to transport 35,000 passengers per hour, the funding for phase 1 of the project was approved by the Federal Executive Council as announced by Mr Governor,” the commissioner stated.

The Green Line forms part of the State’s broader rail expansion plan aimed at enhancing the quality of daily movement of residents in the Lagos metropolis.

On the LRMT red line project, a 37 km rail route from Marina via Oyingbo to Agbado along the Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, he said phase one, currently in operation, has been expanded with the procurement of 24 new coaches configured as three sets of eight-coach trains moving over 500 passengers each.

Osiyemi added that phase two of the project (Oyingbo to National Theatre) to connect with the Blue Line, the feasibility study, is also ongoing.