In this concluding part of the interview by LEKAN BILESANMI, former police commissioner, Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim Babankowa, recounts how the police raided Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s Kalakuta Republic. He also speaks on issues concerning the National Conference, among others.

It was a Peugeot 505 they gave me and I had another Peugeot 505. I now said ‘why should I have two when my brother doesn’t have any?’ We were not in the Senate for contracts

Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim Babankowa, in his late ‘70s, was a police commissioner. In this interview, Babankowa recounts how he led an operation during the January 1966 coup to discover the bodies of the Prime Minister, Sir Tafawa Balewa, his Finance Minister, Chief Okotie Eboh, and other members of the federal cabinet who the coup makers had taken to the outskirts of Sango-Otta, then in Western Region but now in Ogun State, and shot dead. He also shares his thoughts on some national issues.

Following the nagging issues in the polity, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, a former governor of Lagos State, also known as LKJ, bares his mind on the demise of Madiba, corruption, the education sector and leadership.
For Jakande, whose emergence as an upright leader was the product of his service delivery and the simple life he led in a country where vanity was beginning to creep in and where folly had taken the place of virtuous living, it is indeed fitting that he should speak truth to power on the issue of corruption.
In fact, Jakande pooh-poohed the situation where leaders pay lip service to the developmental needs of the people. He gave examples of how his administration in Lagos State was able to turn the tide.

’I lost my retirement benefits to market crash’ By Sam Eyoboka Born on  April 24, 1940, Apostle Hayford Alile  briefly attended  University of Ibadan as a scholar in physics and thereafter proceeded to Howard University, Washington DC, where he earned his B.A. degree in economics and mathematics. He later attended Rutgers Graduate School of Management, […]

Brigadier General Idada Don Ikponmwen is a former Provost Marshal of the Nigerian Army. He is also the leader a non- partisan group called the Edo Think Group, which membership is drawn from the three senatorial districts of Edo State. In this interview, he says the proposed National Conference will be a waste of time if the delegates fail to come up with a new Constitution for the nation. While admonishing the Advisory Committee on the confab to adhere to its assurance that there would be no, no- go areas, Ikponmwen stresses the need to find lasting solution to the problems bedeviling the country even if it means disintegration.

The octogenarian threw his weight behind on-going efforts to hold a national dialogue. He also opposed moves to stop President Goodluck Jonathan from seeking re-election and challenged those saying that Jonathan signed an agreement to do one term to produce or publish the agreement.
He pleaded with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to end the debilitating industrial action in public universities by disclosing whether or not the Federal Government has deposited N200 billion with it as requested by university teachers and claimed by the government.

M rs Josephine Olusheyi Williams is the 17th Head of the Lagos State Public Service. She rose through various hierarchies before Governor Babatunde Fashola appointed her as the HOS recently.

Six years after taking over the mantle of leadership of the once agrarian Bauchi State, Governor Isa Yuguda has brought in a lot of positive changes to the state and given it a notch in terms of development projects. But as his tenure draws to an end in 2015, the governor, in this interview, maintains that he will not interfere in the process that will lead to the emergence of his successor, as the people of Bauchi State will handle it from the grassroots to the top. He also explains why Nigeria should not break up.

Trinity House, a church headed by Pastor Itua Ighodalo, early this year, launched a group called ‘The Focused Group’ as part of its corporate social responsibility, CSR, to look into how children with special needs can be educated and integrated into the society as well as looking into how their parents can be encouraged and get the right information for their upkeep.

ALHAJI Lai Mohammed, the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in this interview, lampoons those criticizing the party for opposing the proposed National Conference. He explains why the APC had decided not to throw its weight behind the conference.

Imagine you studied at the prestigious University of Ife, graduated first-class in Computer Science with Economics in 1998, got hired immediately by Procter & Gamble Nigeria Limited with mouth-watering remunerations even while still a Youth Corps member, got employed again by Citizens International Bank Limited in less than two years, and in less than one year, was hired by Zenith Bank Plc.

PROF. FESTUS IYAYI, a former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), until he was killed in a road crash on Tuesday, was Head of Department, Business Administration, University of Benin. In Iyayi’s last interview with Sunday Vanguard, he defended the university teachers strike. He insisted that ASUU members were prepared to stay at home for five years if the demands that led to the strike were not addressed.

Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State and member of the group of seven governors opposed to the PDP leadership played host to Sunday Vanguard in his official residence for this interview, in which he touched on various issues including the developmental challenges in Jigawa State and the heated political crisis in his party.

Tourism industry has been facing my challenges that call for urgent solution . One of the problems could be traced to the adverse economy in Nigeria which has seen everybody struggling to eke a living; nobody wants to recreate anymore. If you go to the villages where tourist attractions are, the only recreation you observe there is sex because by 6pm-7pm, the whole town has gone to sleep. Gone are the days of the moon-light stories, all they do is just farming in these villages where the Tourists attractions are .