Amidst a flurry of protests and counter protests, traffic gridlock and outright disorder, the planned tolling of the Eti-Osa -Lekki Expressway, took off yesterday on a shaky note.

On Friday, December 23, 2011, it will be exactly 10 years since the former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, was assassinated in his home in Ibadan, Oyo State. Ige was killed shortly after a trip from Lagos with his son. In this interview, the son, Muyiwa, now the commissioner in charge of lands and physical planning in Osun State, speaks on the night of the murder, the controversial trial of those suspected to be behind it, why his father wanted to quit the cabinet of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo, and many more. Excerpts:

lBAGAUDA KALTO, of the News magazine, abducted from his room in Durbar Hotel and murdered during the Abacha dictatorship. Since then, there have been no clues as to who did it.

10 years after the gruesome murder of Chief Ajibola Ige, no person has been successfully prosecuted in the typically Nigerian manner of unresolved high profile murders. This is the story of the murder of Bola Ige and the issues surrounding it.

Last Wednesday, chairman senate committee on electoral matters, Senator Andy Uba turned 53. For a man who has been buffeted by the vagaries of life, he had every cause to celebrate. From being the typical businessman in the United States, Andy by acting the Good Samaritan was catapulted by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to become one of the most powerful Presidential Assistants in Nigerian history.

With just two days to the planned commencement of tolls collection at Admiralty Circle plaza on the ever-busy Lekki –Eti-Osa Expressway, palpable anxiety is already being generated in the area as residents of Eti-Osa, Epe and Ibeju-Lekki have vowed to resist the move.

Just 28 months ago, guns… guns…guns everywhere in the core Niger Delta region of Nigeria . The country was on the precipice of economic bankruptcy. The cold realities stared the then President, Late Musa Yar’ Adua in the face as the hostilities in the Niger Delta, the nation’s cash cow, raged on…

“When you returned from the Ivory Coast, the crowds that received you at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, then at the Aba Stadium and at Nnewi have never been equaled in the political history of Nigeria. It was the return of the Peoples’ Great Hero, the return of their Eze, their King”.

WHEN British Prime Minister, David Cameron, at the last Commonwealth meeting in Perth, Australia, repeated his threat to English-speaking African nations that, henceforth, strings would be attached to aid that his government would offer to the affected countries, he said, “We want to see countries that receive our aid adhering to proper human rights, and that includes how people treat gay and lesbian people”.

The Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security recently had a hearing on emerging threats to the United States posed by Boko Haram, the Islamic group originating from Northeast Nigeria….

The Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security recently had a hearing on emerging threats to the United States posed by Boko Haram, the Islamic group originating from Northeast Nigeria….

Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s death, last Saturday, has continued to generate comments from eminent Nigerians, especially those who were with him from the time of the Civil War till his death.

Ralph Uwazuruike is the founder of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra,MASSOB, a secessionist movement with the aim of securing the resurgence of the defunct state of Biafra from Nigeria.

The name Asiegbu Ejike rings a bell in Nollywood. But unknown to many, this accomplished actor cum director who has acted in over a 100 movies was the former Personal Assistant to the late Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu at the 1994 National Constitutional Conference in Abuja.

WHEN the news came Saturday last week that the Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu had passed on in a London hospital after suffering prolonged effect of stroke, it was as if everything in Igboland had turned upside down. Many people discussed openly what would be the fate of Igbos without Ojukwu who, many believed, provided the required leadership that made it possible for the Igbo nation to remain together despite the effects of creation of states in the country.