Sola Akinnagbe, Group Managing Director of The MRC Group, a seasoned and renowned market research, marketing operations and statistical experts in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with over 30 years’ experience in the delivery of world class solutions for blue chip clients. He co-founded the company in 1995 after one of the most brilliant professional careers in…
I Am Still Pained Awolowo Did Not Take Western Region Out of Nigeria – Idahosa
Ahead of his 68th birthday on September 21, 2021, Charles Ekhoeutownen Idahosa, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Edo State and former political adviser to immediate past governor of the state, Adams Oshiomhole, hosted a media parley at his Airport Road residence where he bared his mind on burning national issues. Adekunbi…
Nosa Igiebor to Buhari: Obnoxious media bills show your government lacks legitimacy
Nosa Igiebor is the co-founder/president of Tell Communications, publishers of Tell Magazine. In this interview with The ICIR’s Executive Director Dayo Aiyetan, the veteran journalist criticises the Muhammadu Buhari-led government for trying to stifle the freedom of information space in the country. He urges Nigerian citizens and the media to resist the attempt and defy…
If Herders, Farmers Crises Continue, The Rich Will Cry – Ex-Ekiti Governor, Fayose Warns
[responsivevoice] It was vintage Peter Ayodele Fayose, former Ekiti State Governor and enfant terrible of Nigerian politics, when he appeared on Channels Television programme, Sunday Politics, to field questions on the brewing Fulani herdsmen/farmers crises in Oyo State in particular, and other states in the Southwest; the crisis rocking the Southwest geopolitical zone of his…
You Can’t Continue to Keep Security Chiefs no matter How Good – Idada Ikponmwen, former army provost-marshal tells Buhari
I am inclined to think, and indeed to feel that the security system has broken down. In this down-to-earth interview with Adekunbi Ero, executive editor, Don Idada-Ikponmwen, retired Brigadier-General and former provost-marshal in the Nigerian Army laments how “the security situation in the country has broken down” and expresses “grave disappointment” in President Muhammadu Buhari…
The kind of consensus candidate we will settle for – Airhiavbere, Edo APC governorship aspirant
In this interview with Adekunbi Ero, executive editor, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State and governorship aspirant, in the September 19 election, Charles Airhiavbere speaks on why six governorship aspirants have agreed to bury their individual ambitions to produce a consensus candidate to challenge incumbent governor, Godwin Obaseki for the party’s governorship…
2023: Expect All-Women Political Party – Josephine Anenih
These are not the best of times for Nigerian women. Politically, they have been handed the short end of the stick with very poor showing during the 2019 general elections and abysmal representation in appointive positions both at the federal level and in the states. And with the worsening security situation and criminality in the…
This Is Not Nigeria of Our Dream – Gov. Okowa
As a politician, Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, governor of Delta State, has paid his dues to merit his present position. Before his election in 2015 as governor of the oil-rich state, Okowa, a medical doctor-turned-politician, had a four-year stint from May 29, 2011 as senator representing his Delta North senatorial district in the National Assembly. He…
Why Nothing Good Can Come Out of 1999 Constitution
Bisi Akande, a former governor of Osun State and the founding chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress in this encounter at his Ila Orangun country home in Osun State, speaks with Adewale Olayemi, on the monetization of politics, the Electoral Act 2010, the rising fad of get-rich-quick among the youths, the problem of internal security…
How I Made First Class
I I Read For 12 Hours Every Day To Make First Class Roheemah Arogundade, a 23-year-old graduate of the Department of English and Literary Studies at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, breaks a record of over two decades, emerging one of the first two students to bag a first-class degree in the department. Born of…
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