Oludare Ogunjobi

Oludare Ogunjobi died on Saturday 17 October 2026 after a brief illness. His age, the place of death and the nature of the illness were not made public.

The FRSC Ogun State Sector Command announced his death on Sunday 18 October in a statement signed by its public relations officer, Chief Route Commander Afolabi Odunsi. It described his passing as a great loss to the corps, his colleagues and the entire road safety community, said he had contributed to promoting safer roads, public enlightenment, stakeholder engagement and compliance with traffic regulations, and extended condolences to his family, colleagues and associates. The command said funeral arrangements would be communicated in due course. The death was reported by Punch, Vanguard, Daily Post and the Independent.

Oludare Ogunjobi served in the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), the Nigerian federal agency responsible for road safety, traffic administration and highway rescue, and rose to the rank of Corps Commander. Details of his earlier postings have not been widely published.

In August 2024 he was the newly appointed commandant of the FRSC Inspectorate Training School at Owa-Alero, Delta State. Leading a courtesy visit to the University of Delta, Agbor, he said the school intended to upgrade its curriculum and asked for the university's support, and pledged that his officers would look after the safety of its staff and students.

In a redeployment of 162 senior officers approved by the Corps Marshal, Shehu Mohammed, he was posted to the Ogun State Sector Command (RS2.2). He assumed duty at the command headquarters in Abeokuta on 10 April 2026, reviewing a parade at the newly commissioned quarter guard and taking over from Corps Commander Akinwunmi Fasakin. In his maiden address he promised to put staff welfare first while warning that absenteeism, lateness, improper dressing, incivility and extortion would not be tolerated. He said the command would prioritise intelligence and data driven operations, in line with the corps' goal of a ten per cent reduction in road deaths and injuries, and would work more closely with government agencies, transport unions, community leaders and the media.

In May 2026 he announced the deaths of eleven people when a car fell off the Eruku Bridge on the Abeokuta to Lagos road, and urged travellers to take extreme care, especially at night. In June he led a five kilometre cycling rally from the command headquarters through Abeokuta for World Bicycle Day, with officers, special marshals and members of the Cycling Federation of Nigeria, and in the same month he made a supervisory visit to the Ijebu-Ode unit command.

Ogunjobi led the Ogun State Sector Command for barely six months. In that time he set out a public commitment to an FRSC that was courteous to road users and intolerant of extortion, and pursued the corps' road safety mission on the Lagos to Abeokuta corridor and the wider Ogun State network, where crashes remain a frequent cause of death.