Interview

What is bunkering, a term that has been associated in Nigeria with stealing of crude oil? Is it really an illegal business or an opportunity waiting unavailed by Nigerian entrepreneurs? Meet the President of Bunkers Traders Association of Nigeria. He told us all you need to know about Oil bunkering. By Ali Elias Reporter:  Sir let’s meet you. Otunba Sola Adewumi: My name is Otunba Sola Adewumi. I am an accounting graduate, a trained accountant, and qualified as a chartered accountant. I was an artist for some years before I joined the banking sector. I left banking to join a shipping company; and by the grace of God, today I am the managing director of Equatorial Energy Company, a company that specializes in bunker sales. We are into shipping and bunker sales, with inter...

For close to an hour, Jenny, a female fresh graduate of Art from University of Nigeria Nsukka, currently looking forward to her National Youth Service, spoke with us about the field and what she hopes to do with it. Shy of publicity she does not want her name mentioned; “just want to concentrate on my work for now without any distraction”, she told us; so the name (Jenny) is not her real name. RNR: I learnt you people had an Art exhibition in Enugu last year? Jenny: Yes, October (2022) RNR: And from my source, I learnt that it wasn’t that successful, commercially. Jenny: At all. The organizers themselves, apparently it was their, I think, 3rd or 4th edition, and that was why I decided to register to exhibit with them, only for me to realize afterwards that they are not ...

Since you became the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board six years ago, you have been credited with several achievements. Which of these achievements do you consider most strategic?  I think the most strategic for me, if you look at the software issues, is the development of the 10-Year Strategic Road Map. That to me is very strategic in the sense that taking over as the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, I needed to know where the organization was. I needed to ask myself, where do I want to take the organization to in the next 10 years?  So, we then had to sit down, got a couple of consultants and evaluated the current state of the organization since it was established from 2010, up until 2016. What has it achieved? Has it achieved its o...