Accolades for Vanguard, Uncle Sam as ex-staff launch book, reunite, plan media library
The launch of the book, titled “The Vanguard Chronology: 40 years of Nigeria’s leading tabloid,” turned out to be an occasion where encomium poured in torrents for the media house that has built a lot of journalism icons and the Publisher, Sam Amuka-Pemu, popularly known as Uncle Sam.” Amuka creates institutions— Osoba In like manner, former governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, a long time friend of Uncle Sam, told the gathering that the Vanguard Publisher was not only generous, but also very creative.
Disu congratulated Vanguard on its 40th anniversary, and described Amuka-Pemu’s legacy as “the institution, the people, the ideas and the journalistic tradition” he helped built I was his tenant in London – Obaigbena Obaigbena recalled that when he started ThisWeek magazine about 40 years ago, he used Uncle Amuka’s flat in London as office.
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