Nigeria’s 1996 Olympic feat, the best in her history, is already beginning to sound like a broken record. That year’s Games held in the City of Atlanta, USA offered the country her biggest breakthrough in the international sporting arena when her contingent bagged 2 gold,1 silver and 3 bronze medals.

Kingsley Kuku, immediate past Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, is one of the promotes of the Niger Delta struggle, having been part of the Kaiama Declaration of 1998, which set the stage for the agitation for a better region, and having participated actively in most of the programmes that subsequently resulted in the granting of amnesty to militants on June 25, 2009.

Chief Charles Idahosa is Special Adviser to Governor Adams Oshiomhole on Political Matters. He celebrated his 62 birthday last week and used that opportunity to speak on national issues and his home state. In this interview, Idahosa says his boss will dictate the tune on his successor in 2016 just as he dismisses the insinuation that his Bini people are ganging up against the governor How has life been with you at 62?

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is taking the Federal Government N14.2 billion loan facility through the Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN,to spur infrastructural development of Enugu State.

Sam Onwuemedo, Director of Press and Media for the Government House, Owerri, a position generally known in common parlance as “Chief Press Officer to the Governor,” shot-off a protest e-mail to me quite recently. It was, he said, “nauseating” – those were his words – that I had it in for Mr. Anayo “Rochas” Okorocha, Governor of Imo state. I could sense Sam, even in the cold alphabets of his mail, straining to remain polite, and maintain the good-keep between us built on a long relationship. He was, after all, once my colleague in the Vanguard.