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ABUJA—THE Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, says plans are underway for reintroduction of the traffic retroflective jacket for all motorists across the country. Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the FRSC, Mr. Osita Chidoka, disclosed this at the flag off of a two day nationwide worldwide workshop on defensive driving techniques organised in Abuja. He said the implementation of the traffic reflector was put on hold in the past following the myriads of petitions that opposed its earlier introduction but after the approval of same reflector by the World Road Safety Organization, the FRSC is now working on the possibility of its reintroduction and implementation in Nigeria. Chidoka said, “When we introduced traffic retroflective jackets in Nigeria, people started to write petitions and we had to deal with those petitions much as we can. At the same time, we discovered that the World Society of Road Safety Organizations, which incidentally the Corp Marshal Osita Chidoka is the President, ...

How APC can emerge stronger from congresses — Adedoyinon April 07, 2014 at 12:36 am in Politics Former Women Affairs Minister, Princess Funke Adedoyin, in this interview wants the All Progressive Congress, APC, to integrate all legacy parties within its fold to have successful party congresses. Excerpts: By DEMOLA AKINYEMI You have been involved in the politics of Kwara State since the era of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, how has the journey been? It has been years of challenges, wonderful opportunities. To go back a little bit, as you know, when we were thrown out of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2005/2006, we all formed the Action Congress, which became the Action Congress of Nigeria. And I remained in the ACN until the last general election. We, in the South of Kwara, had been agitating for power shift for many years because we had Governor Mohammed Lawal, who was from Kwara Central, who did a term from 1999 to 2003; and we then had Governor Bukola Saraki, also from Kwar...

How APC can emerge stronger from congresses — Adedoyinon April 07, 2014 at 12:36 am in Politics Former Women Affairs Minister, Princess Funke Adedoyin, in this interview wants the All Progressive Congress, APC, to integrate all legacy parties within its fold to have successful party congresses. Excerpts: By DEMOLA AKINYEMI You have been involved in the politics of Kwara State since the era of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, how has the journey been? It has been years of challenges, wonderful opportunities. To go back a little bit, as you know, when we were thrown out of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2005/2006, we all formed the Action Congress, which became the Action Congress of Nigeria. And I remained in the ACN until the last general election. We, in the South of Kwara, had been agitating for power shift for many years because we had Governor Mohammed Lawal, who was from Kwara Central, who did a term from 1999 to 2003; and we then had Governor Bukola Saraki, also from Kwar...