Patrick Doyle, a broadcaster and some grade of celebrity, hit the back of the net in his defence of K1’s tarmac tantrum. Unfortunately, it was an own goal. In a Facebook post sighted via Yabaleft Online, the broadcaster claimed that the airline staff baited K1 into misbehaving. He reached into his own experience, describing how had been similarly treated by service personnel but heroically resisted the urge to detonate. That, ironically, is where his argument crashes into itself. What Doyle offered in that post was no defence of K1,…
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Exponent of Quiet Authority, By Bamidele Johnson
One of the best tributes you may read anywhere on TheNews Magazine’s Founder and Senior Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Media, Bayo Onanuga Even the boldest have their limits, but not Mr. Bayo Onanuga. Intrepid? Definitely. Frigid? Occasionally. Reckless? Well, you decide. Take this: in the early 2000s, armed robbers trailed him home to Mojisola Estate in Ogba. He’d just driven in with his brand-new Skoda Octavia and was about to shut the gate when they pounced, guns drawn. They wanted the car. They demanded the key. What…
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