A community leader at Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, Apostle (Dr) Clement Tonfawei, popularly known as the Nabodi 1 of the Universe, has said that if given the chance, the locals could rally round government to trail the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA. Apostle Tonfawei, who was among the Niger Delta stakeholders who met with a Federal Government team led by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu and National Security Adviser, NSA, May 25, in Abuja, said the militants were human beings living in the various communities in the region and the basic thing required to track them was intelligence.

The Director-General of Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Dr Paul Angya, has alerted the federal government of massive importation of substandard goods into the country. This, he said, has forced the SON to shutdown the Electronic Provisional Clearance Certificate (ePCC) platform after the 90 days expiration elapsed this year.

“My Specialist program explored human health from not just a physical and biological perspective, but from an emotional, psychological, societal and legal perspective. It was a very well rounded education, albeit incredibly demanding. It really helped turn me into the person I am today! It was there I saw my passion for mental health! I began working for the University of Toronto Students’ Union as Associate President, and was thrown into the world of advocacy, policy and justice.”

We have a lot of new things happening at SON. What we have been doing is to try to communicate the benefits of standardisation which translates to quality for Nigerians. We have devised innovative ways of communicating to people to buy the culture of standardisation. The major mandates of SON has not changed- elaboration of standards and quality assurance, the regular inspections of factories and production lines of products; audit of companies and advising industries to improve on their products.

Alhaji Musiliu Adeola Smith joined the police as an Assistant Police Superintendent (ASP) in Enugu in 1972. He rose to the position of Inspector General of Police (IGP) in May 1999 and retired in 2002. Today, he is a business with interests in the construction industry, Smith, in this interview, speaks on how he got into the police, his aspirations as well as his success story.

It’s in two ways, when we say economic crunch. I think for now Nigerians have their priority. It’s supposed to be an advantage to us if money was in circulation, for the little in circulation every Nigerian now knows that they have to use it wisely. You have to use your money on made in Nigeria goods, because if you still want to depend on imported goods definitely you will spend more because of the exchange rate, you spend more because of the scarcity of Forex. You spend more because of the banned items we don’t need in Nigeria.

Former member of the House of Representatives, Nze Chidi Duru in this interview gives his view on the issues at play in the struggle for control of the First Guarantee Pensions Limited. Excerpts:

Dame Edith Okowa is the wife of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State. Simple, unassuming and caring, she readily confesses to having a passion for the less privileged, which explains why she has been into charity works for decades.

Outside the budget, I do not see anything the legislators have done during the year under review. They have used their time to settle internal quarrels, to fight for who will be chairman of one committee or the other, and using most part of the year mending rifts between them and even up till moment, the rifts remain unresolved. It does not augur well for this country that a parliament that has already done one year out of the four years has nothing to show for the period more than trying to patch up differences. They need to do better. Nigerians are looking at them to reflect the change that this new government wants. I am sorry to say that we are not seeing that in the legislature.

The president guards his family life jealously. In spite of all the pressure of the office, he spends time with his grandchildren whom he so much adores. They come around him and they provide him with so much relaxation and relief. So, he is a family man and for him he has time for work, for play and time for his family.

We have strong partnership agreements, which we can not disclose now, with the very best in the downstream oil and gas sector. This is to ensure reliability of products at the best market price as well as the authenticity of products sold. Also, we have the required man power and trucks available to carry out operations to meet consumers’ demand upon launch. We are approaching this with modern practices especially on delivery routines to ensure safety, security and reduce delays as a result of the heavy traffic flow in Lagos.

We maintained our contribution to the development of the agriculture value chain in Nigeria as parts of our focus on sustainable sourcing of raw materials. For instance, in 2015, 47.4 per cent of our raw materials were sourced locally. Hopefully by 2018 we should be able to achieve a benchmark of 60 per cent and Heineken, our parent company has a commitment that by 2020 we should be able to attain 99 per cent local sourcing of raw materials.

The renewed clamour for the secession of Biafra from the Nigeria nation agitates the mind of Ndigbo on the rationale behind the strident call. After the Civil War,General Yakubu Gowon(Rtd) had enunciated, as a panacea to remedy the battered infrastructure in the south-east geopolitical zone, three Rs,reconstruction,rehabilitation and reconciliation as veritable, to integrate the people into mainstream governance in the country.

So it appears that the youths of yesterday and today have been pushed out and certainly from what we can see, the people who are youth today will not be in any position to control this country tomorrow because they are inequipped and don’t know anything about governance and society. This is very unfortunate because by that time those who were in charge yesterday and are still in charge today would have been too old to do anything, it becomes difficult to replace. Which means actually that the future of Nigeria is bleak and that is something we should begin to weep over if you ask me.

“Even if the student fails a course, there is a future for the student as he/she has understood the practical aspect of what he is studying. In fact, this means there is opportunity to re-write the story again.” Chukwunonso who said he is driven by passion to make impact in the lives of Nigerian students said he has done some background work on the benefits of the project and he has also made moves to write to organisations pre-informing them on the project to see how students in schools can understand these industrial practices while they are in school.