Federal Government College, Idoani, Akure had just received two sets of computers and Gbenga Sesan, who was in his third year, was too excited to try his hands on the devices. “Sorry, you can’t understand how to use them because they not for people like you”, a teacher rebuked him.

Alhaji Shettima Yerima, an activist and president of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, wonders why the Federal Government is yet to arrest politicians believed to be involved in the Boko Haram insurgency. The youth leader, who describes the president’s new initiative, the Almajiri School as crazy, canvasses the establishment of Arewa Ministry in order to tackle the myriad of problems confronting the North. Excerpts:

Former Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida clocked 71yrs last Friday. The celebration was low keyed as he chose to celebrate it with members of his immediate family with prayers in his hill top mansion, Minna, Niger State. However, on the eve of the birthday, the General who is still radiating as ever before, spoke with Journalists on some personal and national issues.

MANY, including his erstwhile military colleagues, have not come to terms yet with the fact that the pioneer Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, for Niger-Delta ex-militants, Air Vice Marshal, AVM, Lucky Ochuko Ararile, is now a traditional ruler.

Perhaps, never before has the former President of Ijaw Council (IYC) and leader of the Niger Delta People Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujaheed Dokubo- Asari spoken in such a fierce manner.

In her speech at the fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2012) at Georgia Institute in March 2012, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, the Minister of Communication Technology, stated: “The mobile phone, indeed any mobile device with internet access, can become or has become more than an instrument of communication. This seeming plaything for the more affluent has now become an instrument of development, and inclusive development at that”.

MR. Chuks Omeife is the President Nigeria Institute of Builders, NIOB. In this interview with VanguardFeatures,VF, he lamented that mortgage institutions in Nigeria, have abandoned their primary mandate of providing finance at reasonable costs.

Igwe Ezeoba Alex Nwokedi, the sitting Uthokpo Na Eze Achalla, had his impact in virtually all segments of Nigerian public life.

In this interview, Senator Sadik Abubakar Yar’Adua speaks on a wide range of issues including alleged corruption in the National Assembly and the way out of the Boko Haram logjam in the northern part of the country

SHE comes across as a fearless and courageous person. And indeed she is. Whoever encounters her must definitely be
amazed by the manner she conducts her daily affairs with the dexterity of someone in his 30s or 40s. But that is Chief Ritalori-Ogbebor, the Igba of Warri Kingdom and a woman who got the Ritalori story started. While this revealing chat with Sunday Vanguard lasted, her intelligence radiated from the way she responded to questions.