Senator Tunde Ogheha was a member of the National Assembly between 1999 and 2003. He can also be credited with the feat of being one of the few politicians in Kogi State that brought the incumbent governor to office. In this interview with Lekan Bilesanmi, he explained that despite the crisis in the party due to the emergence of its new gubernatorial candidate, Wada, the party will still come tops in the December 2011 election.Excerpts:

Alhaji Bamanga Tukur was the former governor of Gongola State. That was his immediate political office after serving as the managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority for several years.
During the Abdulsalami Abubakar transition programme in 1998, Alhaji Tukur became one of the founding fathers of the PDP and served as a minister.
But as it is with almost all things PDP and its former national leader, Olusegun Obasanjo, the centre no longer held and, therefore, Tukur quit that government.

Read Kayode Eso’s last interview with Vanguard, first published on October 23, 2011. Justice Kayode Eso needs no introduction. For a man whose career as a legal mind spanned about four decades with meritorious alacrity, this former Justice of Nigeria’s Supreme Court will never change.
With what some have described as a caustic tongue, especially when delivering judgments, at 86, retired Justice Eso did not disappoint Sunday Vanguard in this interview.
Sharp-minded, morally upright, Eso is your quintessential legal mind per excellence.

Chief Kokori and Comrade Sulaiman were not alone in their opinions about the consequences of any removal of subsidy, the General Secretary, Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas, NUPENG, Lagos chapter, Comrade Elijah Okougbo said basic infrastructure such as roads, power supply among other must be fixed before governement contemplate the removal of subsidy or deregulation.

Rauf Aregbesola, the man who insists that he should be addressed as an Ogbeni, is the Osun State governor. This is not your regular interview because it is the product of an interactive session. For a man who is intelligent, Aregbesola does not make light of that. However, the problem is that so much is almost always expected from such individuals. And that is where Aregbesola’s problems lie. So, he had to take time to reel out so much of what he describes as his achievements. It would be a year next month since he took over.

Major General Adeyinka Adebayo, the 83-year-old former Military Governor of the defunct Western Region, is President, Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE).

HIGH Chief Edem Duke, the Honourable Minister of Tourism, Culture & National Orientation, needs little introduction. Before becoming a minister, he has never really left the public domain, ever since 1994 when he succeeded Ogbuefi (now Igwe) Alex Nwokedi as GM, Public Affairs of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

Governor Olusegun Mimiko speaks on Ondo State home grown Mother and Child Hospital recently adopted by the World Bank as a model to stem infant and maternal mortality in Africa. Mimiko also sheds light on the state’s Agricultural Villagers and mega schools, and says his administration is bridging the class gap in Ondo.

I believe that the last election reflected the qualities of two main characters, that of the President and Commander-in-Chief, President Goodluck Jonathan and that of Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega.

Chief Reuben Olorunfunmi Bashorun, 73 last October 3rd, was a banker and a lawyer. He worked with the Central Bank of Nigeria for 20 years before becoming the Secretary to the Lagos State Government in 1979 and later Commissioner for Education during the Lateef Jakande administration.

Group Managing Director of NICON Group, Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim (OFR) in this interview with select editors in Abuja, speaks on the Senate inquiry into the privatisation of public corporations and says that the sale of NICON to Global Fleet Group was a success story as confirmed with the conferment of National Productivity Award on the company. He also reveals how BPE created problems for some of the companies privatised

Chief NBE Nwigwe is the counsel to Precious Donatus Ogbonna. He is the Chairman of Ethics and Disciplinary Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association, Owerri branch. He spoke to Saturday Vanguard in his Owerri office.

There is a growing consensus that if Speaker Aminu Tambuwal does not change course or tactics, then his leadership of the House of Representatives would no doubt engender what perhaps may be the highest level of success in the activities of that chamber of Nigeria’s National Assembly.

Alhaji (Dr.) Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, immediate past governor of Sokoto State, likes to serve his people and contribute to national political successes. Those efforts, recognized by Sokoto State people, led to his installation by the Sokoto Sultanate and Gwandu Emirate, as the Garkuwan Sokoto, translated to mean “The Shield of the Sokoto Caliphate” in 1996. During Bafarawa’s tenure as governor, President Olusegun Obasanjo of the ruling party in opposition to governor’s ANPP, once appreciated his good performances as governor of Sokoto State to entitle him, “The Road Master.”

Will I ever get tired of coming to the Punk Palace for scoops? I don’t think so. When I put a call through to the Punk King, Charly Boy a.k.a. Area Fada, requesting to interview the grand master of the Nigerian judiciary, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa (rtd), my expectations were naturally high. The excitement level was the same every time one gets the chance to sip from the human fountain of knowledge as represented in the retired judicial giant. Every minute spent in his presence leaves you feeling like one who’s had an encyclopedia of knowledge implanted in the brains. On this cool and breezy afternoon, as I sat and waited in the Punk Palace bush bar, Charly Boy clad in his boxers and T-shirt, his father, the Justice holding on to a half empty bottle of small stout and a filled glass sauntered in.