Tribute: My Journalism teachers at Vanguard!
By Jossy Nkwocha, PhD Right from my youth, my life has always been built around writing, speaking, being inquisitive, asking questions, being argumentative, etc. In secondary school, I was the Editor of the Press Club. At the Nigerian Institute of Journalism Lagos, I was also Editor-in-Chief of the Press Club, and I maintained a weekly […]
Uncle Sam has an eye for excellence – Helen Ovbiagele, first Woman Editor
What was the motivation for joining the staff at the Vanguard, considering you were already a famous writer? Wow! A famous writer? Thanks for the thought, but I don’t consider myself that by any stretch of the imagination. I merely strung words together to inform, educate, and entertain readers in the seven romance novels that have […]
A Family With an ‘Uncle’
By Lawrence Akapa (Creator, ‘MR & MRS) My sojourn in Vanguard was like a return to a family house. Of course, like most other families, that came with it some fair share of squabbles and all that. I believe it was in the early months of 1984 that I took a trip from Ibadan to […]
Vanguard @40: The special thing in the family
“1990: I was already seated in the plane when I saw Uncle Sam walk in. He took his seat in the First Class area. I quickly walked up to him to greet him before take-off”
Towards better life for the people: Vanguard Newspapers’ 40-year journey
Early next morning, Chris Mammah, my neighbour across the fence called out to ask why I had not informed him I had gotten a job in ‘Vanguard’. I was stunned when I saw one of my two stories as the lead
My Vanguard story
‘I started my odyssey in Vanguard as an intern which saw me navigate through a newsroom populated by some of the best hands journalism had then’
In the Vanguard of worthy causes and empathy
GOING back into the history of Vanguard newspapers in the last 40 years of robust journalism of record, the years between 1998 and 2008 were significant for the brand development.
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”
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
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.
