But for the honesty and principled nature of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, mischief makers would have mounted a wedge between him and President Muhammadu Buhari, during the president’s 49-day recent medical vacation in the United Kingdom when Osinbajo functioned as acting president, Mr. Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, has said. In this interview, Adesina spoke among others on how Osinbajo disappointed those who tried to create problems between him and Buhari.

Practically everyone in the main hall of the Convention Centre of Eko Hotel and Suites rose to the feet that evening as Gen. Yakubu Gowon was called up to receive his Lifetime Achievement Award last Saturday. The affection for one of Nigeria’s enduring former military rulers was overwhelming at the Vanguard Awards. The grin and gusto of the about two thousand persons gathered in the hall applauding Gowon was easily perceptible.

It was a sort of triumphal entry into Ibadan for the man from the East.Senator Ike Ekweremadu, touted as the champion of two presently disadvantaged entities in his position as the highest elected political officer of the major opposition political party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and also as the highest political office holder from the Southeast geopolitical zone, a region of the country that has continued to lament its exclusion from the mainstream of the federal administration.

The Enugu State chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Ben Nwoye, has refuted news making the rounds that the immediate past ‎Governor of Enugu state, Sullivan Chime has joined the APC.

There have been numerous known attempts to physically kill Olusegun Obasanjo. There have also been innumerable attempts by haters to politically annihilate the man who is widely acknowledged as the luckiest Nigerian ever.