In this interview, the Ijebu Ode-born lawyer recently led some group of youth volunteers on a tour of the eight Local Government Areas in Ogun East Senatorial District of Ogun State to sensitise the people on the need to register to vote and collect their Permanent Voter’s Cards, PVCs, ahead of the 2019 general elections. He says red-tape is largely responsible for the low rate of PVC collection in the South-West states compared to states in the north.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State following his resumption after his annual vacation spoke on issues on various issues including the institution of criminal proceedings against the leadership of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore who he said are sponsors of the ongoing killings in the state pledging that he was determined to get justice for the Benue people.

Engr. Izuchukwu Joshua Onwughara, a corporate member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, registered with COREN, is the Project Coordinator of Abia State Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, NEWMAP, a World Bank-assisted, state-led project in erosion control.

Imagine having a father and mother, who were Professors in addition to a grandfather, who was a minister in the First Republic. Only but a few would have this type of ancestry and still end up a nobody in the society. Chief Stephen Nwoga, a real estate attorney, businessman and philanthropist considered such background an asset early enough.

We wrote to the President. Fortunately, we got his sympathy. He directed the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Budget and Planning to sit down with the NDDC, do a reconciliation, agree on the exact amount that the shortfall has become cumulatively over the years and then agree on an acceptable payment plan so that the money can be paid to us. Unfortunately, I will say we are not getting the kind of support we expected

The relationship between PR agencies and the media should be a symbiotic one, a sort of partnership. But increasingly we find media practitioners who, in addition to their jobs also try to double as PR consultants.

Our votes must count and if our votes must count, bad leaders will be voted out by the electorate through the power of their voter’s card

We lack firmness in the Oyegun leadership; he comes from the South-South zone, but he never put on ground any machinery in the zone that will protect him

GODWIN Izomor, an engineer, is Managing Director of MG Vowgas, an EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) company based in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State. Recently, the International Standards Organization awarded MG Vowgas the ISO 901-2015 Quality certification, a development Izomor says will further boost his company’s presence in the marketplace. In the conversation below, Izomor speaks on the oil and gas industry, his operations, and industrialization in Nigeria generally. Excerpts:

 National Publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan has tasked Nigerians of Igbo extraction not to be deceived by the narrative that the shortest route to the South-East Presidency is to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s quest for a second term in office in next year’s general elections. The Publicity scribe in this brief but exclusive interview with Saturday Vanguard urged the ruling party to dust up the 2014 confab report if indeed, it is desirous of Igbo Presidency.

DELTA State Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Vincent Uduaghan, in this interview, explains how the state government is responding to critical needs of the people. He also spoke on other issues.

Toyin Umesiri has been out of Africa for well over a decade; but Africa has not been out of her. Her sojourn in the United States of America has seen her married, start a family and work in two Fortune 500 companies.

THE  Akatigba-Ayola of Warri Kingdom in Delta State and House of Representatives hopeful in Warri, Chief Thomas Ereyitomi, has disclosed how the Olu of Warri, His Majesty Ikenwoli, restored peace to 80-85 per cent of Itsekiri communities across the three Warri Local Government Areas, which he met in disarray when he took over the reins of power.

Yes, you are right, I have been governor here in the state before now, but I feel a profound sense of unfinished business. Unfinished business in the sense that all of what I did in office, have been abandoned to rot, well, maybe some infrastructure have been sustained, at least you can still see some of the street lights, you can still see the Government House on top of the hill, you can still see all of the physical things, particularly our efforts in the areas of human capital development, entrepreneurship, tourism development, Health care have actually been severely damaged.

DRAWING lessons from personal experiences and his versatility, Africa’s Premier Brand Strategist and Principal Consultant of ADSTRAT Branding Management Consortium, Charles O’Tudor, tells a compelling life-changing story.