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.