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MY NIGERIA'S LEGENDARY TALK SHOW HOST: ADESUWA ONYENOKWE

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  Following graduation from university, Adesuwa was posted to Sokoto for her National service in 1983, and worked at NTA Sokoto. That was where she had her first taste of broadcasting; and it was memorable like she said. Danladi Bako, who was the head of the presentation unit, had encouraged her to present a youth programme on television because he believed she had good diction. When she returned from NYSC, unfortunately there was no vacancy for a TV job. Her first job was as a teacher  and that was in Benin in 1984, after which she got the broadcast job eventually, after one year following an audition for newscasters with Bendel Broadcasting service now Edo Broadcasting service. She had her masters at  University of Ibadan in 1988, and graduated, got married and moved to NTA Network Service in Lagos same year after masters. She had covered beats on social services, environment and health as a reporter. "I was however later deplo...

MARYAM ABACHA, A MOTHER SO FORGOTTEN BY HER OWN...

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    Remembering Mayam Abacha, The cool, calm and collected beautiful Ex- First Lady of Nigeria is a woman and mother to behold for her undeniably quest for development, stability of the nation especially women at large. Once known as miss Maryam Jiddah, married General Abacha in 1965 and nicknamed while in office as the *crusading First Lady* for her role in First summit of African’s First’s Ladies in 1997.   She is undoubtedly an epitome of beauty, She hardly speaks to the press, since her husband died in 1998, Her husband's death may have come as a coup to her, because of its sudden and unexpected timing. According to her, in an interview granted by the *news magazine*   She described her husband was charming, handsome and has a likeable personality, a loving father who loved his children and loved ones, Her words shared the affection Abacha   had given her and her kids . She felt happy when President Goodluck Jonathan awarded her late husband a c...