The United Nation (UN) Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has stressed the need to conserving arid lands, saying Nigeria can protect essential water supplies, promote food and nutrition security, and reduce extreme poverty.

He is a young, energetic and multi tasking MD of an enviable P.R firm that won the Sabre Awards for African consultancy firm in 2012. He is however, inspired by doing what he loves to do best which is Public Relations. In order to discover himself, he sojourned into diverse fields that ranged from banking to presentation of programmes in broadcasting and then public relations, which gave him the window of opportunity to work with the team that produced the winning campaign strategy for former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo and his running mate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar in 2002. In this interview, he speaks on how his thirst for self discovery gave his career a boost. Excerpts.

Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State recently had an interactive session with media men in the State where he spoke on various issues nagging the polity.Peter Duru was there and reports Excerpts:

Cultists unleashed terror in Benin-City, Edo State last week. Some persons were killed in the process creating fear in the minds of residents. Apart from the activities of the cultists, armed robbers, kidnappers and rapists struck in the state capital but luck ran out on them when a team of mobile policemen arrested them.

MIKE Igini is the Cross River State Resident Electoral Commissioner. In this interview, he calls for the decentralization of the policing system in Nigeria, adding that it would assist current efforts at fighting insecurity. He also frowns at any form of appropriation that is not vetted.

Operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos have arrested a female house help who allegedly connived with her boyfriend and two fake soldiers to rob her master of over 100,000 Dollars.

…as prominent Nigerians pay tribute
Last Saturday came like any other day, but alas, in the evening of the same day, the cold hands of death snatched away a prominent Nigerian, the President-General, Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men, Alhaja Abibat Mogaji, mother of the former Lagos State Governor and National leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The event occured at her residence, No 10 Sunday Adigun Street, Alausa, Ikeja.

The new Commissioner of Police, Benue State Command, Mr. Adams Audu, has announced his presence in the command with the arrest of over 42 suspected criminals across the state, which remains one of the biggest haul of criminals in the history of the state.

Mrs. Dinah Iwuala recently clocked 75 years. She is married to Engr. D.O.C. Iwuala from Irete in Owerri West L.G.A of Imo State. In this interview with Advocate Abiegbe, she speaks on life as she sees it.

What would push a man into an action that will inflict severe pain or even endanger the life of his own child? Which sensible or a normal father will readily take up a whip to flog a child that is only 14 months old? A child that can barely talk? These are some of the questions now begging for answers following the petition of a housewife who brought her husband before the Bauchi State Shariah Commission.