He worked in Singapore as a chief marine engineer but prayed for a more fulfilling, more rewarding enterprise. And his prayer was answered through a chance meeting with a former colleague who had resigned and returned to his country to engage in Forever business as a distributor. That meeting changed his life. Engineer Vincent Udoye relives that experience and the venture he says had exceeded all his expectations.

Major General Sam Momah served as the Minister of Science and Technology during the administrations of Generals Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar, and carved a niche for himself by creating what has come to be known as “Technology Incubation Centres” to help Nigeria in her drive for technological advancement and industrialisation.

AIR VICE MARSHALL LUCKY ARARILE (rtd) is the Owie of Abraka Kingdom in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State. In this interview, the former Nigeria Air Force (NAF) pilot speaks on his life as a traditional ruler, his involvement in internal and external operations including ECOWAS Monitoring Group in Sierra Leone and Liberia, among others. He also speaks on the Amnesty Programme to Niger Delta militants which he coordinated at inception. Excerpts:

Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the first civilian governor of Edo State, is one man who craved, long ago, for an alternative national political party that can check the seeming arrogance of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the federal level.

The Almajiri schools are exclusively for Muslim children. There are millions of Christian children who cannot go to those schools. How are we giving those Christian children the same opportunity to be educated?  So automatically they have been made second class citizens

PROF. FESTUS IYAYI is a former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In this interview, he explains why university teachers nationwide are on strike; saying the action is to compel the Federal Government to implement the agreement it reached with ASUU on funding of universities. Iyayi, currently Head of Dept, Business Administration, University of Benin, insists that the union members are prepared to stay at home for the next three to five years until the right thing is done.

Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) is a former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA. In this interview, the legal luminary argues that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the police have performed abysmally in the prosecution of suspects. He also speaks on the probe initiated by government into fuel subsidy scam. Excerpts:

Chief Sunday Akabueze is a chieftain of Labour Party in Imo State. He has overtime proven himself to be a strong supporter of Chief Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah, who is aspiring to be the next Governor of Anambra State come November 2013 on the platform of Labour Party (LP).

Adedeji Doherty is a chairmanship aspirant for the Lagos State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and organising Secretary for the South-West.

Major-General Adeyinka Adebayo (rtd), 85, is a former military governor of the defunct Western Region in whose time Chief Obafemi Awolowo was released from prison and made to join the General Yakubu Gowon government as Federal Commissioner for Finance and Vice Chairman of the Federal Executive Council. Adebayo, a civil war general and President, Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), spoke, in this interview at his Ikeja GRA, Lagos home, on how the release of the former premier of Western Region happened, the state-of-the-nation, the security challenges facing Nigeria, corruption and the South- West integration programme

Dr Pius Odubu is the Deputy Governor of Edo State. Penultimate Monday, he marked his 25th marriage anniversary and birthday in Benin-City with over two hundred children from different orphanages. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, led other lawmakers to attend the ceremony at Odubu’s official residence in the GRA, Benin-City. In this interview, the Deputy Governor explains why he married on his birthday, life in politics and his belief in Benin tradition.

As an expert on the nation’s constitution and military laws, Idada noted that the declaration would not stand the test of time, just as he projected that if applied, it would politicise the Armed Forces and threaten the security of the nation.

Emmanuel Nuhu Kure is the National Secretary of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, but based in Kafanchan, Kaduna State where he is the pastor of Throneroom Ministry, Recently, he was in Lagos for a programme at the National Stadium, and took time off to speak with Sunday Vanguard. Excerpts of interview…..

Dr, Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State, is a politician and business mogul whose interests cut across national boundaries. In this no-holds-barred interview, he bares his mind on his plans for 2015, Njiko Igbo and the plight of Igbos in the polity for the past 53 years.

…Says Jonathan should drop his 2015 ambition
PRIMATE Theophilus Olabayo, 67, founder of Evangelical Church of Yahweh with headquarters in Mende, Maryland, Lagos, had remained one of Nigeria’s respected prophets whose prophesies had shaken the high and mighty in the country. In this interview, the cleric says there would be a spiritual revolution that will rock the nation to its foundation and at the end of it, a new nation will emerge. Excerpts: