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TRAINING · May 16, 2026 · 4 MIN READ

How we run a defensive driving cohort for 80 drivers

When E.A. Temile and Sons sent us 32 drivers for defensive driving training, we'd already run the playbook nineteen times. Here's what it looks like.

Bashir Mohammed
Head of Training Academy

Defensive driving is the most commonly requested service in our Driving portfolio. We've run it for transport companies, oil & gas operators, manufacturers, embassies and the Federal Government.

The cohort structure

Most corporate clients send 30–80 drivers. We split them into cohorts of 16 to keep classroom dynamics tight and on-road sessions meaningful. A 32-driver engagement runs as two consecutive cohorts of 16, three days each, with a one-day instructor reset in between.

The three days

Day 1 is classroom: anticipation, hazard scanning, space management, the science of stopping distances on Nigerian roads. We use real footage from our own VMS-equipped fleet — actual incidents and near-misses captured on dash cam.

Day 2 is on-road, in pairs. One driver drives, one observes, instructor coaches. We rotate every 45 minutes. Each driver gets three road sessions and three observation sessions.

Day 3 morning is fatigue management and emergency procedures (covered classroom + simulator). Afternoon is the assessment — a 90-minute drive scored against a written rubric. Pass / fail with detailed feedback.

What it costs

₦80,000 per driver, all in — including handbook, FRSC-aligned certificate, and three road sessions. Pricing scales down for cohorts above 50 drivers.

What it's worth

Across the 19 corporate cohorts we ran in the last 18 months, post-training incident rates dropped between 38% and 71% in the following six months. The median was 56%. That's the case to take to your CFO.