In this interview, Engineer Babachir Lawal, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, explains the nature of the schedule of the work in his office. More importantly, he speaks to the issues of ‘cabal’, the charge by the First Lady, Madam Aisha Buhari, and the perception that some unknown factotum had taken over the government of her husband, the allegation against his office and the running of PINE – Presidential Initiative on the North East – as well as the anti-corruption fight of the Buhari government.

The request by the Federal Government for approval to borrow $29.96bn might have come as shock to most people. But, to Sunday Vanguard’s economic team, it was long expected. It is the final admission by this administration that its 2016 budget was unnecessarily over-ambitious and not well considered. It couldn’t be otherwise when the Minister of Budget had only one month to accomplish a task which had defeated all his predecessors who had five or six months to get the job done.

Mrs Toyin Saraki, wife of the Senate President and founder/President of Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a Nigerian NGO focusing on gender equality, diagnoses the problem of the girl-child using the Chibok girls as case study.

In attempting to cut Tinubu to size, President Muhammadu Buhari was, sometime in June, reported to have laid the issue of “National Leader” of the party to rest

Ever since the traditional rites to the throne of the Oba of Benin commenced, the question on the lips of most Edo indigenes revolved around the name the newly crowned Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, was going to pick. And that was why his visit to Use community, where every Benin Oba picks his name, was one of the most significant events in the coronation. It was earlier rumoured that the new Oba was going to pick the name of his great grandfather, Oba Ovonranwe, but as it seemed, the ancestors of the land knew the best.