Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, has received a $300,000.00 grant from the United States Trade and Development Agency, USTDA, for training of its officers on the new driver’s licence scheme.

IBADAN-INDICATIONS emerged Monday that the former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja may return back to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as he said he would not close his eyes completely to the party from where he defected to the Accord Party to contest the April 2011 governorship election in the state.

Nigerian Breweries Plc Monday said that it has acquired majority equity interests in Sona Systems Associates Business Management Limited, (Sona Systems) and Life Breweries Company Limited from Heineken N.V. This transaction follows Heineken’s acquisition of controlling interests in five breweries in Nigeria from the Sona Group in January 2011.

Chief Supo Shonibare is the Chairman of Democratic Peoples Alliance, (DPA) and a chieftain of Yoruba social political group, Afenifere. In this interview, he enumerated reasons why Nigeria has been unable to develop after 51 years of Independence. Excerpts:

Port Harcourt- Two suspected thieves of cables belonging to Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, were arrested in Woji area of the Rivers State capital.

The Criterion, a faith-based women organization, has identified lack of good parental upbringing as one of the factors responsible for increasing number of miscreants in the society.

Jos—The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, says that the one million Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Bauchi camps are from various states and “not from Jos North alone as erroneously reported last week.”

Prof. Mrs Uche Azikiwe, former dean faculty of Education, University of Nigeria Nsukka and wife of late nationalist and first President of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe in this interview regrets that 51 years after independence, her husband’s dream for Nigeria remain unrealised. Excerpts:

Dana Motors Limited, authorised distributor of the Kia range of vehicles in Nigeria has unveiled a new vehicle leasing scheme in partnership with Sterling Bank Plc that will enable customers acquire Kia cars and pay over a 48_month period. The scheme is designed to provide opportunity for more Nigerians to acquire brand new cars with ease.

Asaba-Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has urged Anioma people to eschew in-fighting and perfect their strategies to enable them produce the next governor.