Nigeria, Sept. 5 -- On Wednesday, 3 September, the Banquet Hall of the State House, Presidential Villa, Abuja, came alive, not with the formality of ceremony but with the urgency of purpose. It hosted a gathering of some of the finest minds in leadership, law, academia, security, technology, and global road safety, as Nigeria reawakened an important intellectual tradition: the FRSC Annual Lecture Series.

First instituted in 2009, the Annual Lecture Series was designed as a platform for ideas, policy direction, and sustained awareness on the menace of road crashes. Over the years, it attracted distinguished voices, from Chief Emeka Anyaoku (CON, CFR), who spoke on "Capital Waste on Nigeria Roads", to Prince Michael of Kent and Jean Todt, ...