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At home in Vanguard since 1987

 One day, in 1987, I wrote a letter to the Editor – Mr Toye Akiyode – to lodge a complaint that the paper was not publishing anything of interest for sales and marketing managers. Unexpectedly, a reply came in less than two weeks; asking for four articles covering half page of the paper

Vanguard @40: A peculiar experience

In the middle 1980s when we were Mass Communication students at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, there were three privately-owned newspapers in Nigeria which virtually every journalism school leaver wanted to write for

Vanguard is Samson Amuka-Pemu, Amuka is Vanguard

THOSE who worked or were associated with Vanguard at the beginning were Amuka lovers. Whether they were businessmen like art connoisseur Chief Taire, Hammond, Chief G.K Animashaun or they were civil servants like Alhaji Shehu Musa and Chief Awoniyi or journalists such as such Muyiwa Adetiba,Toye Akiyode, Jimi Disu and Kenny Adamson or Augustine Ehijiator, they were all Amuka lovers.

OTOGE IN KWARA: Five years on

High Chief Raheem Adedoyin, a Chieftain of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kwara State, is a politician of note in the state. He served the state as a commissioner in the administrations of both Dr Bukola Saraki and his successor, Alh Ahmed Abdulfatah before joining forces with other like-minded politicians to launch ‘Otoge’ movement that brought the current administration of Mallam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to power in 2019. In this interview, Adedoyin who is currently Chairman, Editorial Board of the state owned Herald Newspapers spoke on the movement that unseated the Saraki hegemony in 2019.

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