Former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida clocked 71yrs last Friday. The celebration was low keyed as he chose to celebrate it with members of his immediate family with prayers in his hill top mansion, Minna, Niger State. However, on the eve of the birthday, the General who is still radiating as ever before, spoke with Journalists on some personal and national issues.

MANY, including his erstwhile military colleagues, have not come to terms yet with the fact that the pioneer Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, for Niger-Delta ex-militants, Air Vice Marshal, AVM, Lucky Ochuko Ararile, is now a traditional ruler.

Perhaps, never before has the former President of Ijaw Council (IYC) and leader of the Niger Delta People Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujaheed Dokubo- Asari spoken in such a fierce manner.

In her speech at the fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2012) at Georgia Institute in March 2012, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, the Minister of Communication Technology, stated: “The mobile phone, indeed any mobile device with internet access, can become or has become more than an instrument of communication. This seeming plaything for the more affluent has now become an instrument of development, and inclusive development at that”.

MR. Chuks Omeife is the President Nigeria Institute of Builders, NIOB. In this interview with VanguardFeatures,VF, he lamented that mortgage institutions in Nigeria, have abandoned their primary mandate of providing finance at reasonable costs.