Normally, an event of this magnitude – the 60th birthday of the Editor-in-Chief and General Manager of one of the leading national newspapers in Nigeria, a two-term President of Nigerian Guild of Editors, Provost of the foremost journalism training institution and more – ought to have been planned at least six months ahead of the event. But because it is a well-understood norm at Vanguard that the Editor-in-Chief, Gbenga Adefaye, like the publisher, does not celebrate birthdays, nobody was prepared for what was coming.