Four years ago we decided that retail was going to be an area where we must pursue and it means that we will focus our resources on a retail drive. The two resources that are very key to retail banking are capital and human resources. When you look at where we are in Nigeria, the second biggest economy in Africa and if you put the populations of these West African countries together, it is not up to Lagos and Port Harcourt, you see why we need to consolidate on Nigeria.

Egbin Power Plc is the largest privately owned power generation company in Sub-Saharan Africa and accounts for over 20 per cent of power genetated in Nigeria. In this interview, Mr. Kola Adesina, Chairman, Egbin Power Plc speaks about the firm’s experience post privatisation, expansion plans and other issues in the nation’s power sector

Sitting on a mat outside their house, Zara’s mother and father showed us some of her schoolbooks, her name scribbled over and over across the pages. Her favourite subject was business, her friend Fatima had told me. “Yes,” her proud father said, pointing to the teacher’s full marks etched in red on the pages. 

We install but, in switching to the national grid, BEDC takes money; meanwhile, they are using the transformers and making money from them

If you jubilate over the abduction of schoolgirls, you hate humanity, you hate your country. To anybody that is jubilating over that, that is my message for him or her

If government has the resources, it should assist in rebuilding the places of worship that were destroyed

What inspired your acting career ?

There was no initial inspiration to be honest, I never grew up wanting to be an actor, performer or Entertainer. When I was much younger, in secondary school, my father used to let Film production Teams/Crew use our houses in Enugu and Port-harcourt to film. So, I guess if I had any interest, I would have started at that age. 

AN  Itsekiri opinion leader in Delta State, Mr Alex Eyengho, says some persons from other ethnic groups in the state ascribe to the Itsekiri ethnic nationality influences it does not possess due to inferiority complex.

Hard work and appreciation are part of human existence at the individual level or governmental level. Appreciation for deeds well done is one form of motivation to spur the person so appreciated to do more. And this was demonstrated recently at Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos where the governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa was honoured by the Independent newspaper as Man of the Year 2017. It was a well attended occasion that saw the presence of the mighty and high from Delta State and friends of the governor from other parts of the country. Two former governors of the state – Chief James Ibori and Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan were present affirming the unity of the PDP family in the state and putting to shame the views of skeptics about the rumoured division in the party.

IBADAN—PRESIDING Bishop of the Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has disclosed how he rejected a loan of $25 million offered him to kick-start the private university, Precious Cornerstone University which was recently given an operating licence to operate.