Mrs Owanari Bobmanuel Duke is a former First Lady of Cross River State. She is a legal practitioner, an entrepreneur, a certified mediation/dispute resolution consultant and a philanthropist. She is the Managing Partner of the Law Firm of Duke & Bobmanuel and Country Director of EMPRETEC Nigeria Foundation, a United Nations Centre for Trade & Development (UNCTAD) private sector support initiative to help Nigerians achieve higher levels of productivity and competitiveness among small and medium-scale enterprises, SMEs.

Coleman was registered in 1975 as a business entity. Production of cables started in 1998 through the ideas of our Chairman who was into trading of wires and cables in the 80s and 90s. He decided to go into production of cables. After we started in 1998, the set up team was changed due to some setback in 2001/2002. The Executive Director and I came on board. We started restructuring the business from the small scale business it used to be, to what we are today.

Prof. Frederick Ebegue Amadasun is one of the governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State and a grassroots politician. In this interview, the professor of anaesthesiology, consultant anaesthesiologist at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) and Chairman of the Edo State Hospitals Management Board, declares that, despite the money bags in the governorship contest, he has all it takes to defeat them at the APC primary election. He also reacts to the allegation by some aspirants of plans to manipulate the delegates list of the party, just as he says Governor Adams Oshiomhole has the right to back any candidate of his choice.

There was strong security presence in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as voters cast their votes for candidates of their choice in the Council chairmanship and councillorship polls.

After running down the EFCC on that day, Obasanjo heaped praises on the EFCC under his own administration and its Chairman, Malam Nuhu Ribadu. It is quite understandable that Obasanjo should be happy with Ribadu who, unknown to most people who still heap praises on him was mostly incompetent and might have committed treason. He was also Obasanjo’s protector; he averted his gaze from obvious misdeeds of Obasanjo, supported the third term agenda and hoped to be rewarded with his own second term in office. Before presenting the charges against Ribadu, there is need to continue the list of Abacha family loot forfeited under Decree No 53 of May 1999 and which were handed over to Obasanjo’s government by General Abubakar.

Anytime and I mean,any time of the day or night that I call my parents,they are usually in the middle of a power cut, or that the power has just been restored. My father then will scurry around to switch the generator off or on as the case may be.

SENATE President Bukola Saraki said, yesterday, that some politicians were plotting to remove him from office.

COMRADE Moses Abeh is the Special Assistant to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Inter Party Relations. Until his appointment, he was the Chairman of Association of Registered Political Parties in Delta State. He was also the State Chairman of African People’s Alliance and has been in politics for over two decades.

Despite her extraordinary accomplishments, the founder of King’s Daughters Agape Fellowship International, Bishop Alice Bonet, has remained humble, unassuming and remarkably approachable by women from all spheres of life.

Paul marveled at the Corinthian church: “You have such admirable tolerance for impostors who rob your freedom, rip you off, steal you blind, put you down- even slap your face.” (2 Corinthians 11:19-20).