Oh Nigeria, how I feel sorry for you. They burn your cities, kill your citizens, rape your women, steal your children, pillage your lands, insult you openly, desecrate your holy places and destroy your future; yet all you do is bicker amongst yourselves.

Gen. Samuel Ogbemudia is one Nigerian leader who is worried about the spate of killings and bombings in the Northern part of the country. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, he bared his mind on the security situation in the country and proffered solutions to some of them.

The President of Association of Industrial and Safety Security Operators of Nigeria, (AISSON), Dr. Ona Ekhomu has called on the Federal Government to urgently design and implement the National Improvised Explosive Device (IED) Prevention Initiative in order to save lives and property from incessant Boko Haram bombings.

As the debate regarding whether or not to extend the ‘state of emergency’ imposed on the three terror infested states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States goes on following its scheduled end in May, two, dastardly acts of devilish intents recently threw the nation into a quagmire.

Nigerians have continued to wonder when and how the menace caused by terrorism will become a thing of the past. To this end, Saturday Vanguard spoke with a cross section on how to nip the situation in the bud.

ACCORDING to him, “most times those in government see the quantum of money at its disposal as free funds to be squandered and embezzled because they have no clear idea of what should be the role of government in driving economic growth and development.

ALL the power plants are to be fueled by gas. The Joint Venture Partners in consortium with NNPC will supply all gas from associated and non-associated gas sources. Gas transmission pipelines will be constructed to convey the gas from new and existing gas sources to the power station sites.

“The introduction of a tariff system driven by market forces ignored the fact that Nigeria’s economy is import dependent and that there would always be of fluctuation of prices arising from the cost of sourcing foreign exchange and other charges that were paid at the port of entry, bribes and other levies which the electricity generation and distribution companies are made to pay before they come up with the final product”.

In May 1999 when General Olusegun Obasanjo assumed office, the power supply system in the country was in a very terrible state of disrepair and neglect. The generation availability was down to 1,600MW from the installed capacity of 5,876MW.

IT was afternoon, and the sun beat down with all the anger it could muster. Francis Igbineweka (not real names) held his mobile phone handset against his left ear as he trekked down the street. Beads of sweat formed on his forehead, even as rivulets of the same sweat streamed down the middle of his back.