Mrs Ify Umenyi is the Director General of Consumer Protection Council (CPC). In this interview with Maryam Garba Hassan, she talks about the mandate of the agency, how to strengthen the capacity of the consumer to hold manufacturers and service providers to account something that he has been unable to because of inadequate knowledge. A new piece of legislation is under way for this purpose, she says. Excerpts:
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Hajiya Maryam Garba is the President of FAHIMTA Youth and Women Development initiative in Bauchi. In this interview with Ahmed Kaigama, she discusses sundry issues affecting women in the country and activities of her NGO among others. Excerpts:
Hajiya Kuluwa Abubakar Nuhu is the Commissioner for Women Affairs in Sokoto state, the only female in the cabinet of Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko. She said that the governor decided that there would be no first Lady in the state, but that did not mean that women issues be ignored. In this interview with Jamila Nuhu Musa, she said a lot is being done for women by the present administration.
Hajiya Altine Abdullahi is the founder and executive director of a Kano-based non-governmental organisation (NG0), Voice of Widows, Divorcees and Orphans Association (VOWAN). In this interview with Bala Nasir, she denies that VOWAN match-makes for divorced women 
Hon. Ta Sallah Fati Ibrahim is a graduate of English from Bayero University, Kano (BUK). She had been a teacher for several years before she took to Journalism and worked with the Radio Niger rising to the position of Deputy Comptroller News. She diched the pen profession for politics and served as a member of the Niger State House of Assembly from 2003-2007 after which she served as a Senior Adviser to the former Governor of the state, Engineer A. Abdulkadir Kure.
A summit was recently held in Abuja to facilitate women's involvement in exportation by helping them create avenues through which they can sell their domestic products abroad. Barrister Oriala Ugonna, whose NGO, the Challenged Children Charity Foundation, collaborated with the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) and the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) on this, spoke on the project in this interview with Martin Paul and Josephine Ella. Excerpts:
Her search for orphans took her to many places in Benue state. She would visit towns and villages, and also knock on people’s doors enquiring if there were orphans she could help. After several attempts, she got 23 orphans whom she has sponsored to study free of charge. Mrs. Mwuese Agbatse, an educationist, said her passion to help orphans and the less privileged in the society spurred her to establish a foundation to cater for such groups of Nigerians. She spoke with Nnorom Chidi Justin, in Makurdi, Benue state.
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