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Interview

Interview, Life : Enforcing Rules In Movie Industry Is Risky
October 27, 2008

Director-General of the National Film and Video Censors’ Board, NFVCB, Emeka Mba, recently played host to a group of Abuja-based reporters in his office. FEMI IPAYE was there. Excerpts:
Q: The new movie distribution and marketing framework you have been trying to sell to stakeholders in the industry is generating controversy. Did you not carry …

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Cover Story, Interview : My Big Plans For Rivers

Q: Your Excellency, what did you inherit when you got into office as Governor of Rivers State?
A: You are putting me on the spot. Don’t forget Dr. Peter Odili is my mentor. I got to a position where I will not be able to assess what we inherited. Don’t forget that we inherited not from …

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Cover Story, Interview : Gov. Amaechi Is A Grassroots Man

Dr. Ombo F. Isokrari, an Ijaw leader of Kalabari extraction and member of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees since 1998, was the first Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, National Fertiliser Company of Nigeria, NAFCON. The former Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, speaks with OKAFOR OFIEBOR on …

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Interview : DESOPADEC Is Doing A Good Job
October 20, 2008

The Executive Chairman of Delta State Oil producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Chief Wellington Okirika speaks about the activities of the commission and other topical issues affecting the inhabitants of the oil producing areas in particular and the Niger Delta in general
Q: How will you describe the current violence in the Niger Delta?
A: There …

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Interview, Life : Yoruba Films Are Improving

Jide Kosoko, President of the Association of Nigerian Theatre Practitioners, ANTP, tells YEWANDE SONTAN about the reforms aimed at improving the quality of Yoruba films
Q: How have you managed to combine acting and the presidency of the Association of Nigerian Theatre Practictioners, ANTP?
A: It has been tough. But I thank Almighty God for the …

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