. The day I first read the 3.30pm News Bulletin on Radio Nigeria Sokoto in July 1973. I was 16. Mu’awiya Idris , the Head of Programmes had trained me for just two weeks and thrust me onto the microphone. I felt ten feet tall thereafter.
2.The day I won NTA Sokoto’s best all-round staff of the year in 1980. It was an incredible year that saw me at 22, become a household name in the North West as NTA Sokoto signals reached Koko in Kebbi State and Gusau in today’s Zamfara State.
3. My first lesser Hajj to Makkah in 1989. It was simply glorious and spiritually fulfilling. I felt accomplished and prayed that heaven be my final abode when I depart this world someday.
4.Visiting Robben Island in South Africa and seeing the cells that housed PACs Robert Sobukwe , ANCs Nelson Mandela , Govan Mbeki, Saddik Isaacs and others. I covered President Mandela’s visit to Nigeria along with Winnie in 1990 after release from prison.
4.Visiting Vilakazi Street in Soweto. This is the only street that has two Nobel Prize winners President Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu living as landlords on the street. It was a humbling experience seeing the very earthly and sedentary living their homesteads were.
