Nigeria, Sept. 30 -- The Citizen Journalist was 80 on Wednesday, 24th September. 'The Citizen Journalist' is a moniker adopted by Dr Femi Orebe for reasons I will be asking him later. But it is one that apparently fits one of the most brilliant and knowledgeable men I have ever met, given his long years of dedication to journalism from the standpoint of a citizen, even while he didn't take it up professionally.

Mr Femi Orebe might pass as one of Nigeria's oldest columnists and longest in the trade, having started out in the 1980s with The People's News published by the daring and controversial Niyi Oniororo. If you knew Niyi Oniororo and his paper, you would not be surprised at Orebe's fearlessness and his trademark 'take-no-prisoners' p...