Nigeria Highway Code
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​Section H: SERVICES FOR PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED PERSONS

  • Road users who require special consideration as regards applications for driver's licence or testing must notify appropriate authorities of their disabilities
  • A qualified doctor must certify the level of disability and suitability of the applicant to drive
  • Ensure the reconstruction of the vehicle to suit their conditions
  • Obtain appropriate physically challenged person's identification stickers to be affixed conspicuously on the front and rear wind screen of the vehicle
  • Any of these disabilities (as the case may he) would be indicated on the holder's class J driver's licence so that other road users and law enforcement officers may take note

The physically challenged persons are part of the society and they are also entitled to same privileges while using the road. However, they are not exempted from traffic rules and regulations

It is illegal for disabled persons' identification sticker holder to engage in the following:
  • Allow an able bodied individual to use his or her sticker unless they are transporting the disabled person
  • Create or use a counterfeit of a disabled person identification sticker
  • Use another person's car
  • Make a false statement about a disability in order to obtain or assist someone else
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Nigeria Highway Code, 2015-2023