Day: August 11, 2026
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Beyond the Briefing Room: What I Learned Serving Two Governors
When Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu first summoned me to Alausa in 2003, I arrived with the confidence of a journalist who had covered governance for over a decade. I had, by then, been Sub-Editor at The Guardian, Deputy News Editor at Vanguard, and Group Political Editor at Concord Press. I had interviewed presidents, dissected budgets,…
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Welcome to My Notebook
For most of my working life, I have carried a small notebook. Not the one my editors saw. Not the one that produced the byline. The other one — the private one — into which I copied the details that did not fit the story: the way a widow’s hand shook when she signed the…