₦airaland Forum

johnie:
I have a cousin who wanted to be a journalist at the time. He introduced me to Time and Newsweek.

This sparked my interest in foreign affairs.

and made me pay close attention to foreign news on NTA.

Chris Anyanwu and one gentleman whose name I can't recall now were NTA's foreign correspondents at various times.

They were usually in Geneva for OPEC meetings with Alhaji Rilwan Lukman.

Coverage of the Iran Contra crisis in which Col Oliver North was the main character.
Contra crisis by these internationals is quite memorable for me. I was shocked at the level of subterfuge.

Others were the assassination attempts on President Regan and Pope John Paul.

These events shocked me at the time even though I was conscious of the assassination of Gen Murtala much earlier

Godfrey Odu was the main foreign correspondent. Lola Ogunbambi also attended Opec and other meetings (she was always reporting from Geneva and Vienna. I was in a meeting with her years ago and she was talking about how Dubai was a sand covered country when she often reported from there in the 1980s.

naptu2:
Godfrey Odu was the main foreign correspondent. Lola Ogunbambi also attended Opec and other meetings (she was always reporting from Geneva and Vienna. I was in a meeting with her years ago and she was talking about how Dubai was a sand covered country when she often reported from there in the 1980s.

Exactly!

Godfrey Odu and Lola Ogunbambi.

johnie:
Used to go to bookshops to leaf through books and get the smell of freshly painted texts!

Abiola Bookshops near Unilag, Unilag bookshop, Odusote bookshops, CSS bookshop, Exam Success at Palmgrove.

There was this one at Ilupeju with an American name I can't remember now.

Same here my brother. Grew up in Jos, there were a couple of bookshops where I was a regular customer as a young boy can't remember their names again, but they were located in Ahmadu Bello Way and Rwang Pam Street. How time flies!