Federal Road Safety Corps says one hundred and seventy thousand, five hundred and five applicants have been enrolled into Driving School Standardisation Programme,DSSP, since the application website was improved.

The Corps graduated eighty-two thousand and eighty-six persons from the accredited driving schools, saying one thousand one hundred and three driving schools applied for enlistment from which six hundred and twenty-three were certified and four hundred and eighty not certified.

The revamped DSSP web application came to effect on February one, it allows all driving schools across Nigeria to enrol and update trainee records using their usernames and passwords.

Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, assured that issues that affected previous online application into the DSSP have been resolved.

Oyeyemi said the challenges faced by the DSSP before it was revamped, include “lack of proper basic learner drivers training, incomplete mandatory training hours, Driving Schools as well as touts at various licensing centres issuing certificates to untrained drivers, absence of reliable database for all driving schools, lack of records of all drivers trained by driving schools, and uniform driving programmes.