Patito’s Gang Honours Founding Gang Leaders
This week’s episode of Patito’s Gang reviews why current troubles of Nigeria are a familiar road. Following the last two weeks discussion of Constitutional Conferences and the Challenge of Restructuring and Hate Speech, the series pays tribute to three of its original members who have passed away.
The three founding panelists now deceased were Pini Jason; Ahmadu Abubakar; and Onukaba Adenoyi-Ojo – vibrant journalists and public analysts who in their time, made tremendous contributions to public conversation on policy direction in Nigeria.
Pini Jason was a longtime columnist of The Vanguard newspaper who maintained a very influential weekly column in the newspaper.
Ahmadu Abubakar had a brilliant career engagement in the federal public sector and served the country in several policy modulating committees at home and abroad.
He attended the prestigious Kings College, Lagos and Barewa College, Zaria, as well as Ahmed Bello University Zaria.
Onukaba Adinoyi-Ojo was one time Managing Director of Daily Times; Research Officer, African Leadership Forum; News Editor of The Guardian; Press Officer, United Nations Department of Public Information from where he was posted to Iraq as Humanitarian Coordinator.
Onukaba left behind an awesome number of plays and books.
In honour of the three media and public analysts, Patito’s Gang Anchor, Prof. Pat Utomi will moderate a panel discussion on ‘Tribute to Heroes Past’ scheduled for broadcast on Channels’ Dstv network at 4:30pm on Saturday, July 15, 2017. Repeat broadcast is scheduled for Monday, July 17, 2017 at 8:30pm on domestic service of Channels Television.
