My background was very interesting because we had freedom, we had love, and we were taught strong values – love your neighbor as you love, a strong teaching from the Bible. I had a Christian upbringing. We were very good Christians and I was from a poor home, we are from a home where it was even difficult to eat rice at Christmas. I prayed to God Almighty that if he blessed me and made me great that I would share rice to the less privileged and that is the story behind the rice I share every Christmas to Edo people and my staff in Abuja.

Igwe Alex Nwokedi, Press Secretary to the Head of State during the military regime of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, is the sitting Uthokoneze and paramount ruler of Achalla Kingdom, Anambra State. The 79-year-old former Chairman, Anambra State Council of Traditional Rulers and erstwhile Chairman, Eastern Nigerian Traditional Rulers Forum, spoke to Sunday Vanguard on the calls for Biafra and threat of secession by Afenifere among other things.

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), otherwise known as chemical weapons, are unconventional ammunition feared world-wide because they can be easily produced by terrorists, but have devastating effects. Saddam Hussein, the late Iraqi dictator, used them against a section of his people, killing hundreds of thousands of Kurds opposed to him and it was one of the reasons the United States led a coalition of the world powers to oust his regime during the ‘Gulf War’. Over time, WMD have been used by terrorists across the world.

You can use any means by which you are going to win. The APC sees Amaechi as one of its own, irrespective of the stains, dirt, allegations and moral burden that he may carry. On the other hand, the PDP is not against Amaechi because he is allegedly corrupt but because he worked against their party and poses an existential danger to the survival of the party.

The safe delivery of a baby by one of Nigeria’s Ebola Survivors, Dr. Ada Igonoh, may have taken scientists by surprise, as they earlier maintained that survivors of such highly deadly diseases like Ebola hardly conceive

LOOKING back on the lessons learned in the past 57 years of his life, former Minister of Transport, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, in this interview, wants Nigerians to live their lives without malice against anyone. He is also emphatic on the need for Nigeria to review its value system in order to achieve a better society for everyone.

Pastor Femi Obalemo is an ordained Minister of God and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Institute of Chartered Taxation of Nigeria. Until his appointment as Economic Adviser to the Governor of Kogi State in 2007, he was the Northern Regional Manager of Associated Discount House. He served as Senior Special Assistant on Due Process for four years before his current position as Senior Special Assistant on Debt Management. He is an Alumni of the prestigious Lagos Business School. In this interview,Pastor Femi Obalemo speaks about his politics and the forthcoming governorship election in Kogi State.

Alhaji Tafida Isa Mafindi, the Yeriman Muri, was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) as well as a member of the campaign organisation of former President Jonathan in the last general elections.

This festival can also be described as a gathering of cocktail enthusiasts as beverage brands and lovers of great cocktails and mocktails alike get to indulge their taste buds at designated hubs. This year, the event has been renamed ‘Lagos Cocktail Week’ and will be different in various ways; for one, we are switching up some of the competitions and encouraging more of our guests to try their hands at making cocktails at some of the different hubs.

The banks have been given opportunities to create wealth for the private sector but they have not been doing so. They have what they call SMIES which they use to reserve 10% of their earnings for the private sector but how many people have accessed that? I dare say the fund is not there for entrepreneurs to even access, not to mention the conditionality. People should investigate properly.

Lilian Ajayi, a young Nigerian professor, teaches Marketing and Global Affairs at the New York University, United States of America and is a regular speaker at the United Nations on youth issues. She was one of the speakers invited by the Presidency to speak on the occasion of the Diaspora Day.

Chief Checkwas Okorie, founder of embattled All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in this interview, calls on President Buhari administration to be creative in addressing Biafra agitation issue.

Chief Chuckwuemeka Ezeife, a former governor of the old Anambra State, blames the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for the huge support pro-Biafra activists are getting in the South-East.

The Attah of Aiyede Kingdom, in Ekiti State, Oba Abdul-Mumini Adebayo Orisagbemi paid a courtesy visit to the corporate head office of Vanguard Media Limited, penultimate Monday, where he revealed his latest campaign for unity of Ekiti with main goal of getting prominent sons and daughters of the state together regardless of political differences. Orisagbemi, who is one of 16 paramount rulers of Ekiti State. He also hinted of his community’s capacity to boost the Nigerian economy but expressed dismay that despite the large deposit of mineral resources in Ekiti particularly Aiyede, no investor wants to come to the state.

In an interview, President Muhammadu Buhari fielded questions from Aljazeera’s Mehdi Hasan on Boko Haram, alleged abuses by the Nigerian military and his leadership of Nigeria.