“My advice to youngsters seeking jobs in Fleet Street never varied.”
Felix Adenaike slipped into the ranks of octogenarians last week Tuesday. I used the word “slipped” for two reasons.
His first port of call for engaging journalism practice in 1971 was Daily Times. He came in to join Dr. Doyin Aboaba later Mrs Abiola who was later head of the Features Department. It was there he honed his editorial writing skills under the editorship of Prince Henry Odukomaiya himself a master in the art of leader writing. He shone brightly under the editorship of Areoye Oyebola who succeeded Odukomaiya and with Doyin Abiola as features editor.
From the Daily Times he crossed over to the Nigerian Tribune as the newspaper’s editor-in-chief. More than anywhere else, it was in Tribune he blossomed with his talents and abilities unfolded. It was the culture of libertarianism he longed for, and it was into it he fitted. He put on the toga of editor and the editor-in-chief before him—Ayo Ojewumi and Lateef Jakande. Ayo Ojewumi was editor and Lateef Jakande was editor-in-chief and managing director of the Nigerian Tribune.
In Edo, the paper was eagerly awaited in Benin, Warri and Ishan. The tribune fought hard for its share of space and market in the so-called Minorities states of Rivers, Calabar, Benue-Plateau, Southern Kaduna and Gongola, now Adamawa State. Under the leadership of Adenaike, the Tribune continued as the voice of the South West, Edo and the “minorities” of the North and the South. Chief Awolowo called Osoba, Adenaike and Ajayi the Three Musketeers.
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