Category: Interview

Sunmi Smart-Cole is one of Nigeria’s most respected personalities in the photography, hair styling, musical, architectural and horticultural professions. The award-winning photographer, jazz percussionist and one-time trend setting barber turned 80 on Saturday, September 25, this year. In this interview with Daniel Anazia, he reminisces on his life as a photographer, musician, architect and a […]

Why Buhari’s debt forgiveness request is dead on arrival What’s wrong with our economy; how to turn it around The hidden factor about borrowing abroad “I invited President Obasanjo in 2005 when I was launching my book in Lagos. He sent Prof. Jerry Gana to represent him, promised to implement my recommendations but maintained that […]

Yoruba is the glue holding Nigeria together — Olu Falae Let’s emulate Czechoslovakia, not Yugoslavia What younger generation should know about Nigeria A former Presidential candidate, an ex-Secretary to the Federal Government,  former Finance Minister and Afenifere chieftain, Chief Olu Falae, speaking on Nigeria at 61, spoke of how to solve the challenges confronting Nigeria […]

Foremost Yoruba Traditional Ruler, the Arole Oduduwa and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja the Second, has advised how to adequately empower the youths to positively tap their fabulous energy towards development and veer them off crime and other anti social occupations. In this interview, the royal father speaks of the numerous […]

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 […]