The Making of The Nigerian Flagship: A Story of The Guardian

Fantastic work! Fascinating, even hair-raising adventures. A great read for the Nigerian readership, old and young...

- Prof Onwuchekwa Jemie, pioneer editorial page editor, The Guardian, author, and renowned teacher of communication and contemporary literature.

The book chronicles the evolution of The Guardian, though its first decade; providing a bird’s eye view of journalism excellence, far beyond the delimitation. It proceeds in sparkling, picturesque prose, reminiscent of not just the days of yore, but also showcasing the grasping of the trait of power writing. The authors are

catholic about style, in what shows an experimental approach to expanding the domains of appreciation, for the practising journalist, the scholar, the researcher, the neutral reader, to find compelling, or as a reference point, a work to stimulate thoughts on the complexities of growth, more growth, suspected decline, and

growth, perhaps, but especially using the testimonies of actors to support claims and counter-claims.

- Abiodun Adeniyi, former The Guardian Political Correspondent; University Orator, Head of Department, Professor of Mass Communication, Baze University, Abuja.

The liberal attitude of the paper was well reflected in the peculiar composition of those who put the staple together. In The Guardian was a bastion of conservative thinkers, who in defiance of the law of contradiction, coexisted with a powerful crop of men and women persistently obsessed with the belief that socialists must

perch on capitalist base to blow it up.

- Professor emeritus, Godwin Sogolo

It is the story of a dream that birthed other dreams; the coming together of Nigerians from diverse origins to actualise their dreams of being part of a big experiment to document and share perspectives on the Nigerian story

- Chief Segun Osoba CON, fnge, in his forward to this book