The Director General of Voice of Nigeria, VON, Mr. Osita Okechukwu recently led a delegation to Enugu government house, of investors who want to set up a coal power plant in the Coal City. In this interview, Okechukwu narrates the journey, challenges and the new hope of establishing a coal power plant in Enugu to contribute to the power needs of Nigeria.

The youths should know that diligence, dedication, commitment, integrity, righteousness are the ultimate. These are the things that can take anybody to the top.

The use of technology is becoming prevalent around the African legal market; but what is also growing is the role of women in the legal field

The decision is a positive one for the market. If they had actually effected that change to the negative side, that would have affected investors’ confidence. But now that they have extended the review period upward, I think that will give investors some level of confidence. Of course, you know the market has been very strong or bullish over a couple of period because of the renewed interest. That shows the level of confidence investors have in the market. So, apart from that, I also think that the FX situation has actually been very supportive of the market for them to say ‘let’s wait and see the impact of the FX situation. I think for me that is quite good for the market.

Hon Abdulrazaq Namdas, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, in this chat, spoke extensively on how the 2017 estimates were appropriated and issues raised in the Appropriation Act by the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola.

I condemned the secret mode of the treatment of our Head of State and remember saying, “Oga was retaining fluid and bloated”. I also remember saying: “One day Oga will snap”. When he eventually snapped, nobody could do anything about it

There is sanity, there is peace and where everything works. We have touched the life of “almost every facet of the University of Ilorin community. If you are an academic staff, “you have a better classroom to teach and you have a better laboratory to use. If you are “non-teaching staff, you have a better atmosphere to operate. If you are a student, you “are more secure in the university and you have better facilities

At his inauguration into office on May 29, 2015, the Governor of Delta State, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, pledged new ways of doing things. And he has been so prudent in the management of state resources that a catch phrase – Egho Aria (there’s no fund) is the talk in town. Egho Aria is what he tells people who besiege him for favours or jobs that he knows may not be on immense help to the state.

Nigeria’s Health Minister, Professor Isaac Adewole, speaks on health matters in the country. Excerpts

With N100, 000, I started making fast supplies and turning the money over about four or five times a day; at a point, some good people saw how serious I was, and showed interest by helping me to make it bigger