Ibrahim Babangida described Olusegun Osoba a 'stubborn' journalist who made good use of his prime and ensured that he left no stone unturned
A former military Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida, on Sunday described Olusegun Osoba, a former governor of Ogun State, as a “stubborn” journalist who made good use of his prime and ensured that he left no stone unturned in the course of his professional duty.He said Mr Osoba also knew how to cultivate friendships and derive happiness from gloomy situations and was “embedded with various talents for solving hard situations.
“As young minds in those days, we socialised maximally without thinking about tribe or religion. We made good use of our prime and ensured that we left no stone unturned. Even as military officers, we had good company in our ‘bloody’ civilians who complimented our networks. Chief Osoba was one of such ‘civilian generals’ who knew so well how to cultivate friendship and derive happiness from a seemingly gloomy situation.
As part of his 80th birthday celebration, Mr 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.
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