When you have a bachelors degree in English and Drama tucked in your belt, and follow up with higher degrees in Communication Studies up to doctoral level, you are poised to conquer the world of journalism. And that was what she did. Dr Doyin Abiola (née Aboaba) took Nigerian journalism by storm. From Daily Sketch,…
Veteran Nollywood actor Yemi Solade has stated that Pa Orlando Martins is the first Nigerian actor known in history. Speaking during an interview with The Honest Bunch podcast, Solade revealed that Martins, who is now deceased, left Nigeria in 1914 for the US, where he took up acting. He said the actor returned to Nigeria…
The recent upheaval in the leadership of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) has exposed deep-seated issues within the Tinubu administration’s approach to managing critical national institutions. This investigative report examines the whirlwind of appointments and sudden reversals that saw Salihu Dembos initially removed as Director-General only to be reinstated days later, along with other top…
Today, Friday, September 5 is the 16th anniversary of the death of Chief Gani Fawehinmi. There is no better way to honour Gani on the anniversary of his passing than to rebut the lies peddled against him by Mr Yakubu Mohammed, a director of Newswatch.First thing that struck me was the question – What would…
Nigeria today is the consequence of the choices we made in the past—political, economic, and social. When we ruptured the First Republic with our political intolerance and victimisation of opponents, we opened the gates for political violence in the Middle Belt and Western Region. That turbulence provided the opportunity for various shades of military governments,…
A former Executive Editor of the defunct Newswatch magazine, Yakubu Mohammed, has recounted how a rare interview with Brig.-Gen. David Mark had put the magazine’s directors in trouble with late Gen. Sani Abacha.Mohammed recalled the experience in his recently published memoir, “Beyond Expectations.” According to him, after Abacha sacked the Ernest Shonekan-led Interim National Government…
Leaders of the Ipetumodu community in Ife North Local Government Area of Osun State have formally broken their silence on the four-year jail term handed down to the town’s traditional ruler, Oba Joseph Olugbemiga Oloyede, by an American court for fraud. In an official reaction to the matter, the leaders appealed to the people to…
Billionaire Femi Otedola has recounted how struggling with academics made him drop out of high school and steer him into the world of business.Speaking in the newly released 286-page memoir, ‘Making It Big’, Otedola, 62, revealed how he started his education at the University of Lagos Staff School in 1968. The energy mogul disclosed that…
Once hailed as the firebrand of Northern Nigerian politics, Nasir El-Rufai now finds himself in a curious twilight—boasting of a coalition that would sweep APC into the dustbin of history, only to be swept aside by the very electorate he presumed would rally behind him. His recent mobilization in Sokoto, where he declared APC “clannish…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Sunday sent a historical message to former military ruler, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), as he marked his 84th birthday, wishing him warm felicitations and a sharp reminder of legacies that continue to shape Nigeria’s destiny. In a statement signed by presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu praised the former Head…
