Nigeria, Oct. 13 -- Just when you thought you'd seen it all or had it all at The Guardian, then unarguably the flagship of the Nigerian press, you get to Tell Magazine and realised you probably needed this next stop to earn the bragging rights and claim to being a thoroughbred professional journalist.

Although I joined the reputed news magazine on high acclaim as a seasoned reporter and writer by both contemporaries and senior colleagues I met already working there in 2001, I was awed by the incredible professional quality, intellectual depth and literary and investigative skills of the battery of the Tell journalists.

From the Directors- Nosa Igiebor, Onome Osifo-Whiskey, Dele Omotunde, Dare Babarinsa, Kolawole Ilori, to the Senior Edi...