Alleged ministerial nominee of President Muhammadu Buhari, Prof. Pat Utomi, is a renown economist and public affairs commentator. Utomi served as Special Adviser in the Second Republic government of President Shehu Shagari. He recently marked his 30th wedding anniversary in Lagos. In this interview at the low-key event, Utomi speaks on some national issues and how the change movement, brought about by the All Progressives Congress APC, came into being.

Dr. Muiz Banire is a man of many parts: An academician, an advocate in law, an administrator, a politician. Banire served as Commissioner under former Governors Bola Tinubu and Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, and is currently the National Legal Adviser of the ruling APC. The latest feather to his cap is the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) title. Meanwhile, in this interview, Banire says he is not a professional politician but a professional in politics.

100 days after President Muhammadu Buhari assumed office, human rights lawyer and former President, Nigerian Bar Association, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba, takes a critical look at the Buhari administration. According to Agbakoba, 100 days is not too early to judge the President, but the parameters used in judging him is what matters. He also takes a critical look at the role of the anti-corruption agencies in the fight against graft, the new oppositional role of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Agbakoba advises Buhari to implement the report of the 2014 Confab for a new Nigeria.

In this interview with Jiti Ogunye, the erudite lawyer frowns at the issuance of orders that seek to scuttle court proceedings. Specifically, he advises Senate President Bukola Saraki to confront the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, and defend himself on the charges of fraudulent assets declaration levelled against him and, where he trumps the CCT, he should sue for damages

In his days as the governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, otherwise known as DSP, was fondly referred to as the Governor-General of Izon Nation, because he presided over the only state with entirely Ijaw extraction and was seen as the leader of the struggle for the proverbial Resource Control in the Niger Delta. But his popularity and political career was cut short when he was impeached towards the end of December 2005 and replaced by his then Deputy Governor, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, who later became Nigeria’s President following the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2010.