Category: Reminiscences

On Scales and Balances By Yinka Fabowale My career as the Oyo State correspondent benefitted immensely from the magnanimity of my departing colleagues. Although they could not wait to personally introduce me to their news sources because their resumption in Lagos was overdue, they passed me a directory in the office containing a list of […]

High Commissioner Jonathan Richardson meeting with former Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian newspaper, Mr Eluem Emeka Izeze and former Editor, now Editor-in-Chief, of the newspaper, Mr Martins Oloja, in 2014 On scales and balances By Yinka Fabowale “How are you, Yinka? How would you like to go and work in outstation?” The gentleman […]

A piece of Silver in the Smithy’s forge By Yinka Fabowale At last, a path to escape this prison of numbness and shame was shown, and from the most unlikely of places! Of all my ‘traducers’, there was none I probably feared more than Mr. Razaq Adedigba, the Chief Sub Editor. I really wouldn’t know […]

A piece of Silver in the Smithy’s Forge By Yinka Fabowale I reported to the News Editor, who to my delight I discovered penned a favourite column of mine that told of the experiences of a metropolitan reporter on his beat round in a pithy and yet lighthearted style in The Guardian p.m. sister paper, […]

He who would dance with the gods By Yinka Fabowale Piece of silver in the smithy’s forge The Guardian Editor asked to which desk I would like to be sent for the one-month assessment. Since I had natural flair for the literary/performing arts, I chose Mr. Ben Tomoloju’s arena. Although I’d never met him, I […]

He who would dance with the gods By Yinka Fabowale The call A 1986 graduate of Communication and Language Arts from University of Ibadan with a postgraduate diploma of the Nigeria Institute of Journalism (NIJ), Ogba, Lagos, I had worked as an Information Officer at the Lagos State Ministry of Information and Culture since 1987, […]

He who would dance with the gods By Yinka Fabowale Here begins the series of my reminiscences as a journalist in The Guardian published in the newly-out “The Making of Nigeria’s Flagship: A story of The Guardian.” In the following days, I will be sharing my contribution to the book detailing how I was forged […]