He is fondly called the “Oracle of Benin Kingdom” due to many of his predictions that have come to pass both in Edo State and the nation as a whole. The Esogban of Benin Kingdom, Chief David Edebiri, is the second in command in the hierarchy of chiefs in the palace of the Oba of Benin. In this interview, the Esogban, who also is one of the nationalists that  fought for the nation’s independence  as a journalists and  politician, gives an  insight into what Nigerians should expect from the  new Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare 11.

You often hear people say they didn’t come to count bridges in Lagos. Perhaps it sounds like a joke but that is the truth of the matter. Bridges are not just fancy sights you stand and observe from a distance. All manner of businesses are transacted under the bridges in Lagos.

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.