Category: Governance
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Why Every Cabinet Needs at Least One Journalist in the Room
When I was appointed Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos State, one of my quieter contributions to cabinet deliberations was to ask, at seemingly random moments, a single question: “How will this look on the front page of PUNCH tomorrow?” At first, some of my colleagues found the question annoying. By the end of…
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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,…