Barely a year after the death of the late Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Emeka Ojukwu, there seems to be an on-going family crisis. In this interview with ENYIM ENYIM, the first son of the late warlord, Chief Emeka Ojukwu, jnr, speaks on the rearing family feud as well as the life and times of his late father.

How has the subsidy intervention fund (SURE-P) fared since the government introduced it in the aftermath of the protest in January? The vice president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the body which spearheaded the January protest, Comrade Issa Aremu, provides the Labour perspective in this interview. The general secretary of the National Union of Textile, Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), also speaks on the state of the nation.

Justice Okoi Ikpi Itam is the Acting Chief Judge of Cross River State. He was Acting Chief Justice of Gambia. In this interview, he speaks on his admiration for the law profession. But he says there is a lot of money to make being a member of the bar than being on the bench.

Chris Uche is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN. But he lives a simple life inspite of the many cases involving politicians who would have lost their electoral victories or those helped regain them. Uche, who is the prosecuting counsel in the famous “Apo Six”, can rightly be described as a scion of law, having come from a family whose parents were lawyers.

Senator Ita Solomon Enang, a lawyer and politician, has been a regular face in the National Assembly since the advent of civilian rule in 1999. He was first elected as a member representing the Itu/Ibiono Federal Constituency of Akwa Ibom State in the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and he ran for three consecutive terms of 12 years thereby making history as the longest serving lawmaker from the state. At the end of the 12 years, Enang was elevated to serve the Uyo Senatorial District in the Senate, where he is heading Business and Rules Committee.

Senator Ita Solomon Enang, a lawyer and politician, has been a regular face in the National Assembly since the advent of civilian rule in 1999. He was first elected as a member representing the Itu/Ibiono Federal Constituency of Akwa Ibom State in the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and he ran for three consecutive terms of 12 years thereby making history as the longest serving lawmaker from the state. At the end of the 12 years, Enang was elevated to serve the Uyo Senatorial District in the Senate, where he is heading Business and Rules Committee.
As one who has been following several debates and issues in the country, the senator says it is wrong for anybody to try to awaken the ghost of the onshore/offshore dichotomy, which was successfully laid to rest in 2004. In this interview, Enang says such a clamour amounts to treason and would bring about dire consequences for the nation and its people.

Mr. Pelumi Salas Aribisala is the Group Managing Director of Ogunmod Farms located in Ile-Ogbo, Osun State and 100-plot farm in Ibadan, Oyo State. The BSc. Microbiology graduate from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, in this chat with Financial Vanguard, said although he is a microbiologist by profession, that he is a farmer by calling.

In this concluding part of the interview with Prof. Ango Abdullahi, a former Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) and spokesman for Northern Elders Forum (NEF), a think thank for the 19 northern states, he speaks on the relationship of President Goodluck Jonathan and Chief Olusegun Obasanjo with the North.

FIRST generation Awoist and elder statesmen, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, yesterday picked holes in Professor Chinua Achebe’s accusation that Chief Obafemi Awolowo was part of General Yakubu Gowon’s cabinet that initiated pogrom and genocide as a policy against the Igbo during the civil war.

Comrade Joseph Evah is the coordinator, Ijaw Monitoring Group and the former Publicity Secretary of Ijaw National Congress (INC). In this enounter with AZUH AKANWA, he speaks about flooding across states in Nigeria and why he rejected Gov Dickson’s appointment offer in his home state, Bayelsa.

Senator Suleiman Asonya Adokwe, who represents Nasarawa South Senatorial District of Nasarawa State in the Senate, heads the powerful Senate Services Committee and is also a member of the Constitution Review Committee as well as other vital committees of the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly. A lawyer and sociologist, Adokwe comes across as one who deeply understands the many complex issues that Nigeria is grappling with and speaks with passion about how to promote unity and progress in the country.

Prince Nnagozie Ochi is the fifth child of HRH, Late Igwe Godwin Uchenna Ochi and Lolo Angelina Ochi in Ogugwu, Enugu State. His approach to life is influenced greatly by his down to earth disciplinarian parents who taught him how to bring about a change in the life of others.

…Says ‘Give me the most beautiful woman and I’ll throw her back at you’
BORN in 1898, Chief Daniel Ukeredi, aka Ogbolomo, a retired staff of the Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, who clocks 114 years on September 16, is the oldest living person in Okpe Kingdom, Urhobo ethnic nationality of Delta State. However, by Guiness World Records, he is only two years away from the oldest living person in the world, Mrs. Besse Cooper, who celebrated her 116th years on the earth, on August 26. Cooper was born in 1896 in Tennessee, United States of America.

Alhaji Tanko Yakassai, former Presidential Adviser in the Second Republic, has remained an ardent commentator on socio-political issues in Nigeria and does not shy away when the occasion demands his voice. With the recent resurgence of agitation by Northern governors for a review of the resource control law, the elder statesman bared his mind on what is responsible for the development and takes on those who are already on the prowl for the 2015 election, describing them as diversionary elements out to distract the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan from focusing o the delivery of democracy dividends to Nigerians. Excerpts:

Nseobong Akpabio, M.O.N, the Lagos State sector commander, Federal Road Safety Commission bares his mind on the new Lagos state traffic laws by Governor. Babatunde Fashola. He said that the law is imperative in the state to save lives that are lost as a result of road accident.