Category: Interview

A former Secretary-General of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Chief Anthony Sani has blamed the worsening insecurity in Nigeria on the mass unemployment and introduction of cashless economy. In this interview, the elder statesman, who notes that kidnapping for ransom has supplanted armed robbery, says government must address the underlying causes because the problem cannot […]

A Lagos-based master’s degree student, Feyi Orisan, was kidnapped alongside a woman in Ekiti by gunmen who shot her father, Sesan Orisan, dead in her presence. She recounts how the kidnappers threatened to kill them and sell their body parts if their ransom was delayed How did the attack leading to the killing of your […]

A chieftain of the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenire, Senator Femi Okurounmu, discusses the state of the nation in this interview. Why are Yoruba leaders, especially the traditional rulers, silent on the rising killings by herdsmen? Not all Yoruba leaders are silent. Certainly, the Afenifere leaders are not silent and that includes Chief (Ayo) Adebanjo; he […]

Babatunde Ogala, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, is the principal partner at Babatunde Ogala and Co. In this interview, he speaks about his resolve to defend popular actor, Baba Ijesha in court over a sex scandal, his life and career in politics and law, […]

Saheed, the second son of the late human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, in this interview speaks about the last moments of his late brother and activist, Mohammed, who died on August 11 at the age of 52 Many Nigerians knew your late brother as a lawyer and an activist. How else would you describe […]

Dr. Mike Okonkwo, the presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM), is one cleric who rarely dabbles into political matters in the country but who does not mince words when he chooses to. Two days ago, he was his usual self when he spoke with select journalists at the TREM headquarters in Lagos on […]

Former Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Prof. Bola Akinterinwa, in this interview with Gbenga Salau, said Boko Haram’s affinity with Al-Qaida could portend danger to Nigeria’s war against insurgency. He, however, underscored the need to re-strategise for the set objectives to be accomplished. The return of  the Taliban to Afghanistan seem to […]

Prince Kassim Afegbua, media spokesman to former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), and erstwhile Commissioner for Information and Orientation in Edo State, is one individual who courts controversy like honey does bees. Saying that the politician from the famous Afegbua royal family of Okpella, Edo State, has made more foes than friends in […]

The United Methodist Church (UMC), one of the largest mainline Protestant denominations, is entangled in internal conflict over same-sex marriage and the ordination of Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) clerics. At the February 2019 general conference of the church in the USA, the leaders rejected moves to remove restrictions on LGBT clerics and same-sex […]