*Insists deregulation is the only way forward *Says Nigeria has invested heavily in education *‘Some people are still living with prejudices of the First Republic’ In this concluding part of the interview with Senator Jubril Aminu, some of his comments came across as scary. Sampler: Look at what happened in Lagos between the Oodua Peoples […]

A lot of us actually regret not doing that. I remember that Ted Mukoro was one of those who got the awards at Ibadan. He started WNBS, the radio station. They came in a year after WNTV kicked off. We met and we agreed that some of us would have started our own TV stations.

Professor Jibril Aminu is by every stretch of definition a successful individual. A medical doctor, an accomplished university administrator, two time minister, an ambassador to the United States of America, and now a senator from Adamawa State can be unbelievably blunt.

You took it out of my mouth. Yes, I would like to believe that we committed a strategic error. At the time when I said we should go into politics, they said no. A lot of people said no because, for me, I thought that the work of pro-democracy activism was coming to an end; so when a lot of people ask why aren’t you as noisy as you used to be, I let them know that I do not just shout for shouting sake; I let them know that the political space has also closed down

The relations between the two countries cannot be anything other than cordial. The occasional rough edges are there but I want to confirm to you that when these cases have been reported, we have found and verily so, that it is not policy of the South African government