Mrs. Dupe Atoki is the Director General, Consumer Protection Council, CPC. In this interview, she talked about the challenges of combating consumer abuses and curbing impunity of business operators in the economy; the Council’s collaborations with other sector regulators, among other issues.

Barring any other unforeseen hiccup, the Enugu depot of Nigeria National Petroleum Company, NNPC, would resume operation on or before April 2017.

GOVERNOR Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State yesterday swore-in the newly elected Chairmen of the 17 Local Government Councils of the State and their deputies with a charge to them to look inwards for funds by focusing attention on internally generated revenue.

Piqued by what it described as irregularities that greeted the conduct of the December 21 council polls in Abia State, a group, Forum of 2016 APC Local Government Chairmanship and Deputy Chairmanship Candidates, Abia State, has called on the State Independent Electoral Commission, ABSIEC, to withdraw the certificates of return issued to all the PDP chairmanship, deputy chairmanship and councillorship candidates in the 17 council areas and 292 electoral wards in the state.

THERE is tension in the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State as the state Police Command detained the ward leaders of the party in Oredo Local Government Area of the state, including the state Youth Leader of the party, Osakpanwa Eriyo over alleged threat on the life of the state secretary of the party, Chief Osaro Idah and a security detail attached to Governor Godwin Obaseki.