MEDIA ALL THE WAY

Dedication/ Acknowledgement/For A Start/Press: Life after Journalism/ Eleven Years after NMF: Just One Question for Sani Zorro/21 Challenges for the 21^st Century/People’s Journalism/The Media’s Ultimate Estate/Press as Engine of Democracy/Media & Responsible Governance/Mohammed Haruna’s Obsession/The Role of Mass Media in Peace-Building/For Sustainable Democratic Governance/The Press: Everybody’s Whipping boy/ Governance: The ‘‘Return” of Maradona?/Leadership-Followership Disequilibrium/End Of Government/Praise Ye The Leader!/You and The Anthem/When Two Elephants Fight/Tomorrow…And Tomorrow/The Baton/Taking Security Seriously/The Jaji Address/Learning Nothing, Forgetting Nothing/ Nearer, My People To Thee/Obasanjo’s Nigeria Project/Local Govt. Reforms: An Appraisal/Local Govt. Reforms: A Revolution/ Local Government Reforms: Problems and Conflict/ Local Government Reforms: The way Out/ Public Affairs: A Groom For All Brides/A Time Like That/ Awash with Awards/ Those Last Days Of Trial/ Don’t Count Me Out/ Focussing On Corruption/How Vice To Go By Zik’s Example/Kwara Complex/Miscalculated Calculators/ My dear Count. Come Over To Ibadan And Wake Us/ Sweet Sixteen/Tai And The Saw, They Plundered/Voice of the People/Who Protects the Consumer?/Banks Need ABC/Youth: Will The 70s Give New Directions to Youth?/To Whom The 70s Belong/ How to Curb Student Unrest/Can Graduates offer New Leadership? Individual Development/ Nigerian Students: A New Image?/Student Militarism or What?/ The Holiday Maker/ Children Of The Revolution/Nigerian Youth Revisited/Hold The World, Students Want to Come On Board/Adult Delinquency/Student Power On The Upsurge/Youths And The Abacha Campaign/Social Issues: A Driver’s Memo/Before Their Final Good-Bye/Could This Really Be True?/Culture In The Flesh/ Danger Ahead/ Doctors Without Mission/Driving Rights: Good Beginning, That/Enthronement Of Lucre/Farewell to Koboko/Fela, So Far, No More/Expect Us At Ten/From Bmw To Mrs. Akande… With Love/ Hope Amidst Gloom/I Watched Intellectual Duels/In The Name Of The People/Major Step Forward/ Mincemeat On Expressway/Minimum Wages, Maximum Uproar/My Friends. The Prisoners/My New Year Resolution/My New Year Resolution/ Need for Gender Equity in Politics And Governance/Nigeria’s Cultural Revival/Obasanjo And Nigerian Unity/Power To Do just What?/Professor versus Professor/Railways: One Way To Unity/ Soldiers In Schools? Capital No/The Flood Next Time/ The Game Nigeria Won/ The Living Dead/The Oputa Panel/Thinking with Death/Women’s Day, Every Day/Let’s Set Nigeria a-Gog/Transition: Government By Indifference?/A Month To Watch/Getting Started/ The Price Of Darkness/Lessons For First Ladies/Lest We Forget/All the General’s Men/ The Collaborators: A Nigerian Transition Soap Opera/Freedom For Freetown/What Manner Of Parties/Waiting and Watching/Thrice Beaten, Understandably Shy/Cleaning Up/The Abiola Factor/Nigeria Postponed/National Day Damper/Waiting For the Honourable’ Ministers/The Last Of Thee Milads/ Response To Banditry/ Aziza…Of All Soldiers?/Salute To Churchmen/Yesterday’s Men/Fuel Scarcity: Adamsian Ray Of Hope/Fuel-less, Water-Less, Light-les/ Go, Falae, Go/100 Days to Eternity/Why No To Probes/ The Week-Or-Mar Months/Vox Populi Vox Dei/Crackdown Won’t Help/Aaa, Ibb and Mko/Soldiers, And Other Nigerians/It’s Not Over, Until…/Devalued Nigerians/ Open: Open in The Third World/Dialogue 82/North-South Dialogue: Anybody Listening/Unctad Vi will take Place in Belgrade in June/Basic Oil Industry Information Takes The Lid Off The Barrel/North-south 83: Plenty Of Blitz but no boom/ Donors, Debtors, And 1984/ Desperate Debtors, Adamant Creditors/Opec Meets-The World Waits/Opec has greater understanding of Third World Problems-Sankara/The Opec fund: A decade of commitment to development/The Years Of Nnpc- Fuelling The Nigerian Economy/ Momentous Week Ahead For Oil Producers/ Travelogue/Diaries: In The Maddening Crowd/Journalist Tunji Oseni’s Diary on Abubakar’s last critical month (2)/Lessons from Australia/Scrapbook Italiano/Small Nation, Big Role/Foreign Affairs: Anybody Listening?/ Mwalimu and The General/The World Under Reign Of Terror/Amin To Go Or Not To Go?/ Certer couldn’t Have Come If../Of Winners and Dinners/ North and South/1971 may Be China’s Year/The Significance of Opec/ Welcome to Mao’s China/ Rfk: Savagery Of The Civilised Nations/Long Live Col. Gaddafi/China’s New Image/Opce: 30 Years Of Resilience/International Broadcasting: The Challenges of External Broadcasting, Lagos/ Interview: Crusader For Better Nigeria/God is a Nigerian”/Journalism is my First Love – Special Interview With Alhaji L.k Jakande/Obasajo At 42: Conversation With The Head Of State/White Rule Is A Challenge/Portraits: Seventy-One Cheers for A Veteran-Alhaji Babatunde ‘Times’ Jose/Dr. Ofonagoro and Daily Times/Eddy Omotoso’s 25 Year At The Un/ Happy Birthday, Mr President’/Here I Am/None Wished Him Dead/Obasanjo: A Pen Portrait/Remembering Chief S.O. Adebo/Remembering The Basorun/Rev. Badejo Bows Out/ Thank God for Gani/The Five Frontline Countries/ The President At 65/ Working With Mr. President/ In Conclusion/Index.