Saturday Magazine

Last week, Otunba Gani Adams, leader of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC) marked his 40th birthday with a week-long schedule of activities. Afterwards, he spoke with SEYE OLUMIDE and OLAWUNMI OJO on his life, his leadership of the socio-cultural group, OPC, his liberation struggles and a litany of national issues. You recently celebrated your 40th…

Your kiss is a collection of sweet dreams.Your love is a book of fantasies.Your lovemaking is a treasure. KAYODE and I courted for a year. Whenever I visited him, he would kiss me and carry me in his arms from the parlour to the bed and make sweet love to me. His kiss was a…

Dele Agekameh, publisher, media consultant and National Director, Media/Public Affairs of the National Think-Tank, a policy advocacy group, is one Nigerian passionate about moving the nation forward. In this interview with OLAWUNMI OJO, he speaks on the recent ascension of Goodluck Jonathan to office as President, his ministers, the political parties, the build-up to 2011…

CONVICTED former reverend of the Christian Praying Assembly, Reverend Emeka Ezeugo, a. k. a. Rev. (Dr.) King has demanded from the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Tambari Yabo Muhammed a public apology and retraction of publications in a national newspaper over claims that he was fingered in the recent jail break at Kaduna Prison…

Ten years after some Nigerian women abroad under the auspices of Nigeria Women in Atlanta Georgia (NWAG) came together with a mission to mission to alleviate the sufferings of many marginalised women in Nigeria and by extension, empower them to adequately contribute their quota to national development, the impact of their activities have truly been…

Prince Nnagozie Ochi, Co-Founder of Bridges To Goodness (BTG) is a passionate Nigerian with over 20 years private sector experience running a wide range of business at the highest level. He has finally come home to work on development projects, one of which is BTG, a project designed to improve the performance capacity of the…

Judge Akua Kuenyehia, a Ghanaian, the first vice- president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) The Hague, Netherlands is a dynamic woman of international repute. She spoke on the Rome Statute and the ICC as it relates to women, peace and justice during a one-day roundtable at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA), Lagos…

The first Chairman of Isolo Local Government, Lagos State, Mrs. Mary Modupeola Oseghale is in her second term in office at the council. A former police officer and teacher, she discusses her experience in politics which she joined in the 1950s, and the challenges of her office. MRS Mary Modupeola Oseghale, the chairman of Isolo…

GOOD ideas come from Jehovah, so ask Him for one. The world has been blessed by those who did. Consider anesthesia. How would you like to be operated on without it? That was the way they did it before a Scottish doctor named James Young Simpson introduced what he called "artificial sleep." As a student…

Once asked to comment on his well-advertised health challenges, the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua quipped that, as a human being, he was bound to be sick at one time or the other and that if he fell sick, as he had often fallen, he could die at a relatively young age as a result…

Former governor of Kaduna State and Chairman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), Alhaji Balarabe Musa, speaks on the death of former President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the Jonathan Presidency and the challenges confronting the nation on the conduct of next year's general election. What is your comment on the death of President Umaru…

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in this interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) Newshour insisted that the zoning arrangement in the PDP should be respected and all members of the party should abide by the decisions of the party. Excerpts. I've just been speaking with Atiku Abubakar, a former Vice President who some people…