Nigeria, June 10 -- "I did not have the benefit of working under the tutelage of Uncle Sam but yet from afar I strove to be him in more ways than one, and what a mess I made in the effort of which I have him to blame. Learnt in the process, there just cannot be two Sam Amukas." - Tunde Fagbenle, Nigerian newspaper columnist (2015)

I am sure there will be no objection that Prince Samson Oruru Amuka Pemu, otherwise cherished as Uncle Sam Amuka or who his numerous admirers lovingly call Uncle Sam, the publisher of Vanguard newspapers and co-founder of The PUNCH, is a respectable father of journalism. He is certainly the oldest Nigerian still plying his trade as a journalist.

Media entrepreneur, Nduka Obaigbena describes him as an icon and ...