Let us give the best candidate a chance to lead Rivers State, says Wobo
By Okhumeode Mikairu The President General of Our Will, the OK Chinda’s support group, which spread across various LGA’S of Rivers state, Barrister Glory Wobo , in this interview with the media, harps on the need for Rivers State people to allow the best candidate in the coming governorship election to lead Rivers State. Excepts: […]
Pan-Yoruba conference update: The Alaafin, Stakeholders’ pains
The Yoruba nation is in search of unity amid concerns that a section of the people that matter in the in quest to move the race forward is being left out
OmoiguI at 80: I made them pay for claiming I removed oil wells from Ondo to Bendel
By Gabriel Enogholase, Benin MR. Daniel Aiyanyo Omoigui, father of the Chairman, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui Okarau, and former Surveyor General of the Federation, turned 80 last Thursday. In this interview on the milestone, Omoigui speaks on why students run away from mathematics and his narrow escape from death during the […]
What PDP must do to retain Kogi, by Tunde Ogbeha
Senator Tunde Ogheha was a member of the National Assembly between 1999 and 2003. He can also be credited with the feat of being one of the few politicians in Kogi State that brought the incumbent governor to office. In this interview with Lekan Bilesanmi, he explained that despite the crisis in the party due to the emergence of its new gubernatorial candidate, Wada, the party will still come tops in the December 2011 election.Excerpts:
Why PDP can not rule forever, by Bamanga Tukur
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur was the former governor of Gongola State. That was his immediate political office after serving as the managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority for several years.
During the Abdulsalami Abubakar transition programme in 1998, Alhaji Tukur became one of the founding fathers of the PDP and served as a minister.
But as it is with almost all things PDP and its former national leader, Olusegun Obasanjo, the centre no longer held and, therefore, Tukur quit that government.
Archive: Justice Eso’s last interview: ‘Why plea bargain breeds corruption’
Read Kayode Eso’s last interview with Vanguard, first published on October 23, 2011. Justice Kayode Eso needs no introduction. For a man whose career as a legal mind spanned about four decades with meritorious alacrity, this former Justice of Nigeria’s Supreme Court will never change.
With what some have described as a caustic tongue, especially when delivering judgments, at 86, retired Justice Eso did not disappoint Sunday Vanguard in this interview.
Sharp-minded, morally upright, Eso is your quintessential legal mind per excellence.
