General John Shagaya is a serving Senator of the Federal Republic and Chairman of Northern Senators’ Forum . In this interview, the Minister of Internal Affairs in the defunct IBB’s regime speaks on a number of issues including IBB’s return to politics, the Jos crisis and acting President Jonathan’s trip to the United States.

A 37- year-old man identified as Mr. Ayodeji Shokunbo is currently telling detectives attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Panti street Yaba, Lagos how he killed his landlord; one Mr. Sodiq Ganiyu. Angrily

When he walks into Corporate offices, neatly dressed in expensive suite with an identity card conspicuously swinging freely on his neck, one would pass Abubakar Tiza for a Super Sales Representative with any of the highly placed companies in the world

In 1960, I travelled through Ikotu to Benin Republic. Because in 1960, the colonial power was still there. I was trying to compose a book on African legends because no book told us about what happened in the early days of Africa. You can only know about it through legends. And colonialists did not show us anything. So, I thought that getting stories on legends would tell what happened in old Africa.

IT’S like every new day in Nigeria comes with new surprises, each tending to outdo the previous day’s in its degree of absurdity. When you think you’ve seen and heard it all, our politicians spring more bizarre surprises on us, saying to us ‘you ain’t seen nothing yet!’