Hon Nnenna Elendu Ukeje, PDP, Bende Federal Constituency, Abia State is chairperson Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives. In this interview she speaks on national issues ranging from Nigeria’s foreign policy, anti-graft war, immigration crisis in the United Kingdom and the 2016 Appropriation Bill.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alh. Lai Mohammed has challenged members of the Broadcasting Organization of Nigeria (BON) to join hands with Federal Government in sensitizing Nigerian populace on the need to support the military in the ongoing campaign to end insurgency in the country.

Boko Haram gunmen have mounted their first attacks since Nigeria’s government declared the Islamist group “technically” defeated, killing seven people in a raid and suicide bombing, residents told AFP Wednesday.

Mr. Emeka Nwankpa, a former journalist and development activist is the Chief Media Strategist of the Concerned Professionals’ Congress (CPC), an advocacy team with an inclination to Nigeria’s total development.

Borno State hunters have pleaded with the Nigerian Army to allow them join in the war against Boko Haram insurgents in the dreaded Sambisa forest.

Talking to the Chief Executive Officer of Erisco Foods Limited, Chief Eric Umeofia, you will feel the pains of a man that has high hopes for the country’s manufacturing sector, but feels dejected by the activities of those holding the economy down. His tomato paste plant in Lagos, one of the biggest in Africa, provides jobs for many Nigerians and he believes he can create more jobs if the system is clean. Today, the industry is plagued by importation of substandard but cheap tomato paste from China, so, Umeofia is left to fight to keep his local plant afloat and has become a strong advocate for the manufacture of goods locally as against importation. In this interview, Umeofia shares his pains and hopes for the manufacturing sector.

Boko Haram’s insurgency has killed 17,000 people in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, damaging millions of dollars of infrastructure at a time when the country is facing a cash crush as a result of the plunging price of oil.

The United States, US, government has restated its commitment to help Nigeria and its neighbours to counter terrorism acts by Boko Haram.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government may ban the use of hijab by muslim women as a result of the use of female suicide bombers by Boko Haram insurgents.

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, has described the Sunday and Monday’s Boko Haram attacks in Borno and Adamawa States as disheartening and an indictment on the All Progressives Congress (APC) federal government, saying that the Minister of Information and
Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed must explain to Nigerians how the same Boko Haram that he said had been “technically defeated” could carry out
such daring and deadly attacks.