A motion directing the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, to stop the collection of driver’s licence fees as it is a tax/rate to be collected by state governments in the country is expected to come up today before the Edo State House of Assembly.

It was indeed a sad day of reckoning for three suspected drug traffickers as their get-rich-quick escapade was effectively foiled by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos. Among the suspects was a 35-year-old man, Udeh Donatus Chukwuka, 35, who ingested both cocaine and heroin.

Policy reserval is a disease common to our governments, military or civilian, since independence in 1960. It has been the bane of development in a way that rubbishes all the positives of perspective planning.

Are journalists in Ogun tate not worthy of appointments in the government of their state? Why is it that successive occupants of Igbein Hill Government House since 1999 (that was when I began active journalism in the State) have not been looking their ways for engagement, especially as media and information managers?

While several young Nigerians are busy complaining their country has not done anything for them, 35- year- old US- based Nigerian born researcher, Yemi Adesokan, has put his country’s name on the map of nations of innovation.

AMALGAMATED Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE, implored the Senate to thoroughly investigate all the privatized enterprises and determine the processes and the extent they met national interests.

The term business denotes a particular trade or profession designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers. And in like vein, any organization which provides these services is also referred to as a ‘Business’. Businesses play a vital role in the life and culture of countries with capitalist and free-market economies.

Vice-Chancellor of Tai Solarin University, Ogun State, Prof. Olusegun Awonusi, yesterday, stressed the need for technocrats to be involved in the education sector, blaming its falling standard on lack of qualified manpower.

A shoe seller who won N150,000 in the daily draws of the on-going “Win Cash with Loya” milk promo has said she would use her prize money to change her line of business from selling shoes to become a distributor of Promasidor Nigeria Limited, makers of Loya Milk and other food products.

A decline was recorded in trading on the Nigerian Stock Exchange NSE, last week, as the indices for measuring the performance of listed equities, the market capitalisation and the All-share index both dropped by 4.28 per cent.

Standard Alliance Life Assurance Ltd has announced a gross premium income of N5.809 billion during the 2010 business year.

Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, CIS, said it has repositioned its Disciplinary Tribunal to help advance in its mandate of regulating the conduct and behaviour of stockbrokers in the Nigerian capital market.

Fidelity Helping Hands Programme, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) unit of Fidelity Bank Plc has donated a Toyota Corolla salon car, a deep freezer, packs of groceries and clothing to the inmates of Ngwa Road Motherless Babies Home, Aba, Abia State.

As part of its corporate social responsibility initiative that demonstrates its Care and Service to humanity, Samsung Electronics West Africa, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Company, a global leader in consumer electronics and digital convergence technology, today donated latest technological products to orphans and vulnerable children to mark the Samsung Week themed ‘Here For Naija!’ in Lagos.

Ghana will miss influential midfielder Michael Essien for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations after he privately conceded that he won’t play again until April.