Following the successful conduct of the 2011 general election in most parts of the country, Professor Omo Omoruyi is today a happy man. The former Director General of the Centre for Democratic Studies, CDS, spoke to Vanguard last week in Benin City and urged Nigerians to commend President Goodluck Jonathan for the successful polls.

The primary mission after the interview was arranged was to get Chief Olabode George to talk about his life in prison. But the former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would rather prefer to have the story of his prison life told in a memoir, hence his insistence not to tell the story now. The only aspect of it he elected to tell is the one relating to the reason he was jailed for two years for fraud at the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) while he was chairman.

The septuagenarian was a former federal commissioner for information in 1975, commissioner for education, Mid-Western Region 1968-71; commissioner for finance and establishment, Bendel State, 1972-75 and a senator, 1979-83. In this interview, the Kiagbodo born elder statesman bares his mind on the April elections, the PDP, Delta State politics, among other issues.

Chief Reuben Adebayo Fasoranti knew exactly why he was in the Ondo State Government of the late Chief Adekunle Ajasin (1979-83) service.

Mr. Ted Iwere, veteran journalist, lawyer and publisher has seen it all in the nation’s media industry. In this interview with Azu Akanwa, Vanguard Online Editor, he tells the story of his new venture- Best of Business Online. Excerpts:

Professor C. Onyebuchi Chukwu is the Minister of Health. Before this meeting, the impression was one of a happy-go-professor.However, when you begin to throw questions at him, you discover that beneath that youthful look is a bundle of knowledge and information, both rolled into one, is power. In this encounter which had been long in coming, the Minister explains why Nigerians should be more information savvy especially when they hear that doctors or professionals in the health sector are embarking on industrial action.

Professor Samuel Adeoya Ojo, is one of the many professors of his generation from Ekiti, easily one of the biggest “factories” for the production of academics in Africa.

Mrs.Motunlayo Adefunke Sofowote is a woman of many parts who continually strives towards perfection, and also advocates others to do same. She is a singer, an author of several books, an artiste, among others. The 65-year-old Mrs. Sofowote who hails from Yewa South in Ogun State is the CEO of Glowing Channels Foundation and Glowing Channels Ventures

For several years, The Reverend Reuben Yaro, served the Lord in Kaduna and Sokoto as a pastor of the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA). But two years ago, he was back in his home state of Gombe.

Shortly after graduating with a degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos, in 2002, her unquenchable passion for designs led her into pursuing a Diploma in Interior Designs at the Ivory House School in Lagos. Today, the product of that desire for self-enhancement actualisation is Sixth Sense, a designs and decoration outfit which she formally established in 2004 though she had been doing business under the name Sixth Sense since 1999 while she was in the university.