Long before the current widespread insecurity across Nigeria, Plateau State had been a theatre of killings-no thanks to conflicts between the natives and nomadic herdsmen.

Balogun Akin Osuntokun, notable columnist, activist, politician and Yoruba leader, will be 60 on December 16. The former Political Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo, in this interview, reflects on his life over the past six decades.

Furoebi Akene, an environmental crusader, was Commissioner for Lands & Survey in Bayelsa State. He is the Executive Chairman, Centre for Environmental Preservation and Development (CEPAD), an advocacy group for environmental justice in the blighted oil rich Niger Delta.

Mrs Josephine Oboh-Macleod is Scotland-based Nigerian of dual citizenship. She is an active member of the Conservative Party, whose passion is the welfare of the aged, women, youths, people with challenges and children.

Chief Josephine Oboh-Macleod’s profile reads like an encyclopedia of different personalities. She is an administrator, entrepreneur, artist, art and culture advocate and collector, photographer and a philanthropist with special love for the aged and children.

With barely four months to the expiration of COVID-19-induced moratorium for those who took its loans, the Managing Director of the NIRSAL MicroFinance Bank, Alh. Abubakar Kure, in this interview, charged all beneficiaries to roll up their sleeves for repayment.

By Charles Kumolu This is not a rags-to-riches story. It’s an account of someone born into comfort, but suddenly lost his affluent parents in his first and third years at the University of Jos. With the guidance of relatives who were bureaucrats, Edwin Ogidi-Gbegbaje made a career choice that saw him becoming a permanent secretary at 46. […]

You rightly captured it, certainly it’s a date I won’t ever forget. But I think the governor had probably made up his mind long before the 2nd of November,2018. We only filled and endorsed the nomination forms on the 2nd of November and submitted to the Party, about a day to the closing date. I think what has changed from then is my perception of life. In all honesty, I never for once dreamed about this, absolutely nothing prepared me for it. The possibility of me being the deputy to Mallam Nasir Elrufai was not ever what I imagined, not even in my dreams.

Dr. Sylvester Ugoh, Harvard-trained economist and former Minister of Science and Technology, is among those that can be said to have seen it all in politics and economy.

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, a foremost military and political leader who served as Nigeria’s military head of state from 1976 to 1979 and later as the democratic president from 1999 to 2007, in an interview with Fidelia Salami, Chairman, Board of Directors, Delta State Tourism Board, gave insights towards moving Nigerian tourism sector beyond its present state. He, thereafter, proffered solutions for a viable tourism sector.