Last week, we brought you the first part of this captivating interview with General Ipoola Alani Akinrinade. In that copy, he discussed the health challenges of President Muhammadu Buhari – who happens to be his friend; the issue of restructuring – which has been one of his life-long pursuits; as well as his stay in exile during the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, days.

The arena of the maiden convocation ceremony of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, on Saturday, April 29, practically stood still and in awe of a former teacher, who, after almost half a century of leaving the classroom, a grateful and appreciative generation bestowed on him an honour.

Against the backdrop of the alleged indifferent attitude of the five Igbo governors to the incarceration, trial and release on bail of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, leader of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB , Senator Samuel Onwe, the Commissioner for Information, Ebonyi State, says the South-East Governors Forum, whose Chairman is his principal, Governor Dave Umahi, at various times and levels, contributed to the release of Kanu even as he says the Umahi government is rewriting the story of Ebonyi through physical and social transformation. Excepts of interview:

Some of the graduates delightfully introduced themselves by inserting OLUSEGUN as their middle name; a moving expression of their eternal loyalty to the former president

Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday continued to flay comments by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the reasons Dr. Goodluck Jonathan lost re-election as president saying that Obasanjo’s comments were framed to show his disdain for his successors and position himself as Nigeria’s best ruler ever.