Chief Kalu Umeh is Abia State Attorney_General and Commissioner for Justice. In this interview with Vanguard, he addresses issues such as the alleged gang rape of a university student in the state, the dismissal of non-Abia State citizens from the civil service and the face-off with a telecommunication outfit.

I AM converting this topic to a two-part serial in response to a challenge posed by one of the readers. He or she did not supply his/her name, but the GSM number is 08033539191. And the text message reads: “Your article on page 49 in the Vanguard of today (Monday October 31st 2011) is not in-depth at all. You wrote about why the 1979 and 1999 Constitutions failed. You even wrote why suggestions by others will not work but you did not do a good job on how yours will succeed”. May I thank the reader for this prompting. There must be millions of others who share this view.

A TOTAL of 100 companies in Nigeria will get award for attaining some measure of best practice in the work place through managerial approach to employees.

Promasidor Nigeria, a consumer manufacturing outfit has explained that the main purpose of its N50 million consumer promo was to improve its business as well as the lives of consumers through affordable and quality products.

Quite recently, statistical report by the United Nations had posited that about 53.6 million Nigerians go to bed hungry every night. This according to the body represents nearly 45 percent of the total population of Nigeria.