By Kingsley Osadolor I did not meet Jide Ogundele until 1990, when I was recalled from Harare and became Deputy Editor of The Guardian (daily). Ogundele was on the Business Desk, and I found him very resourceful, hardworking, friendly, and not charmed by lucre, in spite of the circles he frequented in the line of […]
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Life story of a reporter’s experiences when Nigeria’s former Military Head of State, the late Gen Sani Abacha, ordered the closure of one of the nation’s foremost and authoritative newspapers, The Guardian, between Wednesday, May 29, and Saturday June 8, 1991. By Banji Ayoola Day 4: Saturday June 1, 1991 Uncle Ben Tomoloju came to […]
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Life story of a reporter’s experiences when Nigeria’s former Military Head of State, the late Gen Sani Abacha, ordered the closure of one of the nation’s foremost and authoritative newspapers, The Guardian, between Wednesday, May 29, and Saturday June 8, 1991. By Banji Ayoola Day Two: Thursday, May 30, 1991 I got to the Command […]
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Life story of a reporter’s experiences when Nigeria’s former Military Head of State, the late Gen Sani Abacha, ordered the closure of one of the nation’s foremost and authoritative newspapers, The Guardian, between Wednesday, May 29, and Saturday June 8, 1991. Banji Ayoola Day One: Wednesday, May 29, 1991 I was in the canteen of […]
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Day former minister threw caution to the wind, drenched me with venom By Eyo Charles, from Calabar One that has risen to become spokesman to president of a country and later a minister aside other important public offices should be seen as one that is a diplomat and statesman. But Chief Femi Fani-Kayode failed in […]
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By Yinka Fabowale “Iwe yin yii…o po ju owo e lo” meaning”: “This your magazine is worth more than the price.” That is the confession by a friend after running through the contents of the latest edition of Newspeak Magazine. My friend, a former senior government official in Oyo State, who I have longed known […]
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Being echoes of a Reporter’s recent furtive shuttle in the Garden City’s belly of thunder By Yinka Fabowale Until just a fortnight ago, the one and only time I ever visited Port Harcourt was exactly 23 years ago. Then I was a love-struck bachelor gone in search of my fiancé who was doing her national […]
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By Yinka Fabowale … Continues from June 26, 2019 No doubt, past governments must carry the can for breeding the current raging monster due to its failure to nip these security challenges in the bud and choosing to wallow in profligacy and corruption at the time. However, the present government has failed to demonstrate capacity […]
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… Continues from June 25, 2019 I made no move to leave the spot where I quietly lay. Apart from being exhausted, I feared that being an unfamiliar face, I could, if I came out, easily be mistaken for and treated as one of the hoodlums by members of the rescue party who, in this […]
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By Yinka Fabowale … Continues from June 24, 2019 Instantly, the inside of the bus became a bedlam as everyone scrambled to escape. The first few to get out ran into the bush, but were hotly pursued by the bandits who dragged them back dripping with blood from machete cuts and sword blows inflicted by […]
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