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.