Professor Phil Hart is the Director of Energy and Power at the Cranfield University, United Kingdom. Over the years, he has held a series of senior roles within the energy and Power Sector in the UK, Asia and North America as an engineering director, chief technology officer, chief operating officer and president. He is a recognised industry leader in wave energy conversion technologies in the US and has advised the US Department of Energy repeatedly on innovation strategies for this technology.
In this interview with Sunday Vanguard, he disclosed sundry issues bothering on power, energy and how to boost the sector through renewable energy.

PORT HARCOURT—BANDITS, yesterday, invaded Taaba and Okwale communities, Khana Local Government Area, Rivers State, killing nine persons and razing several property.

FORMER Nigerian envoy to the Scandinavian region and a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirant in Bayelsa State,  Ambassador Godknows Igali, has promised to prioritise human capacity building if elected governor of the oil-rich state.

Professor Austin Nwagbara of University of Lagos, UNILAG, has said the video of him calling on Nigerians to resist, strategise and fight back, in reference to their ugly experiences in Ghana, was “edited” and “stitched” out of context to cause rancour in line with “a growing xenophobic situation in Ghana that can blossom into a fireball.”

FOLLOWING insinuations that Miyyeti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, has threatened to stop supplies of cattle to the southern part of the country, the Katsina State chapter, yesterday said it was not aware of the decision to stop the supply of cattle to the southern part of the country.

YENAGOA— Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Bayelsa State,  Jothan Amos, has flayed the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  over alleged false claim on the attempts by the opposition party to subvert justice in the petition by the former Speaker, Kombowei Benson against  Preye Oseke.

UYO—AN international donor agency, ActionAid Nigeria has attributed the rising wave of insecurity in Nigeria to corruption which has pervaded every strata of the nation.

YENAGOA—FORMER Special Adviser to the President on Nigeria Delta Affairs and a frontline People’s Democratic Party, PDP, aspirant for the governorship of Bayelsa State, Mr. ‘Timi Alaibe, has congratulated Governor Seriake Dickson and the PDP in the state  for the overwhelming success recorded by the party in the last Saturday local government elections.

THE term revolution has, overtime, come to be used loosely as a synonym for change. Political revolution, however, largely means a drastic change that is often spontaneous, populist and that which leads to a regime change.

AS the Boko Haram scourge turned into its tenth year, this must be the question, I guess, that must be agitating the minds of many, particularly those of us living in the afflicted parts of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.