In this exclusive interview, Umaru Yar’Adua calls for revolt. But describes James Ibori’s criminal past in England as youthful exuberance saying, “I am unaware of those charges against James”, challenging anyone, especially Nigerians in the Diaspora to cast the first stone.

Lanre Ogundipe predicts danger in a situation where indicted politicians are now publishers. Although the ex-NUJ national president regrets that certain individuals have turned journalism into a cash and carry venture while the Press Council fails to indict erring journalists, he has no doubt about the press survival.

2003! That is already an age. You mean I have allowed so much time to pass without coming up with another work? Phew, in that time, two novels ought to have been breathing on the table. I had thought that what I had had been brought to a stage and so laid out that one should just do a smooth drive and that would be it. How wrong I was. Some pages of the outline, which is elaborate, have gone missing. Snatched away by the wind of time.