Photos: Meet soldiers who rescued Oyo kidnap victims
"These arrests completely disorganised the group, exerted overwhelming pressure on them and ultimately led to the unconditional release the pupils and teachers"
Vanguard @ 40: How it all began
IT happens often. Birthdays or anniversaries take the back seat when urgent and pressing developments crowd the mind. June 3 was the day 40 years ago, when the first copy of Sunday Vanguard rolled out
Vanguard @40: From Copy Boy to Line Editor
As they were chatting, he told him: “Frank, this is my son. Please, take him and make him a better human being”
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
How I saved Vanguard from being shut by military junta
The annulment of June 12, 1993 Presidential election, adjudged to be the best in Nigerian history, was a Pandora’s box with numerous consequences and troubles
