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Kennedy Ikantu Peretei, A Ropework: An Autobiography

December 8, 2024December 9, 2024LENIACLeave a Comment

BOOK REVIEW ON THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HON. KENNEDY IKANTU PERETEI’S “A ROPEWALK”, REVIEWED BY FELIX OLAJIDE TALABI ON 7TH DECEMBER, 2024 The book’s statistics are as follows: Chapters: The book contains ten chapters Pages: The book comprises 226 pages including the gallery and index. Lines: The lines from chapter one to chapter ten are made […]

Journalism book, Media Dynamics, presented to the public

October 23, 2024LENIACLeave a Comment

The book Media Dynamics: The Changing Face of Mass Communication was presented to the public at the premier university, the University of Ibadan, during the just concluded 6th Induction and Awards ceremony of the Certified Institute of Cooperatives and Social Enterprise Management, CICOSEMA. The book Media Dynamics: The Changing Face of Mass Communication, authored by […]

The Judas Testament: A review of Femi Adesina’s “Working With Buhari’

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024LENIACLeave a Comment

By Moses Oludele Idowu “Every great man has his disciples but it is the Judas who writes the biography.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Title: _Working With Buhari_ Publisher: Safari Books LTD, Ibadan. Pagination: 488 Price: N20,000.00 Reviewer: Moses Oludele Idowu The art of memoirs and biography is one of the great inventions of civilised communities. […]

Nostalgia and Tears F’Orile: Fabowale’s severe love verses for fatherland

September 11, 2023LENIACLeave a Comment

What does a woman do with her love for and frustration at a beloved country living below its potential of being a global force? Resort to armed insurrection as did revolutionaries like Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, John Jerry Rawlings and Thomas Sankara to force a change? Or join compatriots with radical views, fiery pens and […]

A Reporter And His Beat – Review

December 25, 2022December 25, 2022LENIACLeave a Comment

By Shola Oshunkeye A Reporter And His Beat is unique in its simplicity and elegance. It contains 40 chapters wrapped in 258 pages and spread over seven parts. From the first part to the last, Fabowale displays the infinitive ability of an alchemist and an illustrious mastery of the English language to deliver a compelling […]

Osoba, Akeredolu, Fayemi launch A Reporter And His Beat amid hope of better Nigeria after 2023 elections

December 24, 2022January 1, 2023LENIACLeave a Comment

From Right: Founder and Chancellor, African American University, Porto Novo, Benin Republic, Prof Ben Ezeohagwu; Chairman, Gaskiya Media Limited and former Executive Director of TELL News Magazine, Mr Dare Babarinsa; former Chairman, Nigerian Governors’ Forum and immediate former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Ondo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mrs Bamidele Ademola-Olateju, […]

A Reporter And His Beat … A Gift Not Just A Book

December 12, 2022December 12, 2022LENIACLeave a Comment

By Banji Ayoola A Reporter And His Beat is a gift, not just a book. To enrich whoever holds it in his hands and examines it seriously. A precious gift drawn from invaluable treasures streaming from inexhaustible sources unusual, higher, luminous and beyond the ordinary. From which the humble author was permitted to draw riches […]

‘A Reporter And His Beat Is A Gift, Not Just A Book’

December 12, 2022December 12, 2022LENIACLeave a Comment

Casting Off The Veil To Say “Thank You!” By Yinka Fabowale Dear friends, a thousand thanks cannot suffice to express my appreciation and joy at your overwhelming show of love and outpouring of good wishes on the announced debut of my book, A REPORTER AND HIS BEAT! Mo dupe pupo, Dalu, Nagode. For those who […]

What senior journalists, others say about Yinka Fabowale’s A Reporter and His Beat

December 11, 2022December 12, 2022LENIACLeave a Comment

By Banji Ayoola Lade Bonuola – “… You are my pride… with accustomed enrapturing prose! Enchanting freshly words, never the beaten track nor the same old hat and tired words. None do you embrace, nor can any be attributed to you, but the picturesque renditions of accounts! I heartily congratulate you on this feat!” (Mr. […]

Between a book and an Ijebu delicacy

December 10, 2022December 11, 2022LENIACLeave a Comment

By Yinka Fabowale O jina o, kibo! O yo gende. Li kobo y’omo, yo’ya O yo dede ule Mi le nikan je tan o E wa ba mi ra! Every dusk, the call went up, usually as the hour approached seven o’clock. With the crier’s sonorous sing-song Remo dialect inflection, it pierces the night’s falling […]