With the festive season fast approaching and traffic volumes set to surge, ON-THE-HIGHWAY AFRICA is stepping up with an urgent, high-level Road Safety Town Hall and Awareness Campaign. The initiative, themed “Driving into the New Year: Safer Roads, Fuller Communities,” reinforces UN SDGs 3 and 11, spotlighting the global push to reduce road traffic deaths…
EUGENE HERBERT The festive season in Nigeria means long-distance travel, late-night parties, church programmes, family visits and, sadly, more fatigue-related crashes. Long journeys on highways like Lagos–Ibadan, Abuja–Kaduna, Benin–Ore or Enugu–Onitsha become even riskier when drivers push themselves beyond their limits. Driver fatigue doesn’t hit you at once. It creeps in gradually, with your body…
The race to electrify Nigeria’s roads just got serious. The Director-General of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Otunba Oluwemimo Joseph Osanipin, joined forces with the Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas (Pi-CNG) at Electrifying Mobility, Nigeria’s Electric Vehicle Fair, held today at Eagle Square, Abuja. The event brought together leading automotive and…
Euro NCAP has released its final batch of safety ratings for 2025, and Mercedes-Benz once again leads the field. The all-new CLA, available with electric and petrol powertrains, delivered a standout five-star performance, reinforcing the brand’s reputation for uncompromising safety engineering. The CLA posted 94% for Adult Occupant Protection and 89% for Child Occupant Protection,…
