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.