In 1964, I was the only Lagos reporter that had home telephone – Osoba
A former governor of Ogun State, Segun Osoba, took a nostalgic journey to his early days as a reporter at Nigeria’s oldest newspaper, the Daily Times, in his new book ‘Battlelines: Adventures in Journalism and Politics.’One of the three pioneer employees who joined the Daily Times in 1964 after passing their A-levels, Mr Osoba was put under the tutelage of Guy Walls, an expatriate training manager from Daily Mirror, London.
“So impressed was Alhaji Jose that two months on the job, he called me and talked me out of the idea of reading law. That was followed by a fellowship at the Commonwealth Press Union in Bouverie House, London, in 1967.
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