OpEd: Sonala Strikes Sixty-Five By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu | Sahara Reporters Sonala is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel No Second Chancepublished by Longmans and translated into Russian and other languages. READ MORE:
Friday, May 15, in this Corona-tainted year of 2020 marks the 65th birthday of the inimitable journalist’s journalist Sonala Olumhense.
In a mumbled rush I told him I had come to look for a job. He just waved for me to sit on the settee to his right and threw the bunch of the newspapers of the day on my lap. Sonala looked at me and at Ted, and then smiled as though somewhat assured they were wasting their time by putting me to a test!Ted Iwere asked me if I knew anything about the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting then holding in Nassau, Bahamas.
I made noises while writing in the African Guardian newsroom to show that I had not gone to any library to cheat by spying through the newspapers.When I came back the next day Sonala made no mention of the test, or the result, which left me confused. I ran up to the African Guardian section, and nobody was forthcoming with the result of my test.
Thanks to Sonala, my first test as a journalist ended up being published in the first edition of the African Guardian where I had great company in the assembled eminent staff, notably Pini Jason, Ashikiwe Adione-Egom the Motor-Park Economist, Greg Obong-Oshotse, Okey Ndibe, Emmanuel Aguariavwedo, Seun Sonoiki, Kingsley Osadolor, Fred Ohwahwa, Joni Akpederi, Ada Momah, Ngozi Ojidoh, George Ola-Davies, Ola Alakija, Stanley Amah, Jossey Ogbuanoh...
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