(born 23 July 1952) is a Nigerian journalist and writer. the editor of Weekend Concord from 1989 to 1999, and the founding editor-in-chief of The Sun (Nigeria) from 2003 to 2010. Renowned for his human interest approach to reporting, he is frequently regarded as the father of tabloid journalism in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
In 2011, he founded Entertainment Express. With Dimgba Igwe, his friend and writing partner, he has written various books on business and journalism, with 50 World Editors: Conversation With Journalism Masters on Trends and Best Practices (2015) receiving particular acclaim. Since his abrupt retirement from The Sun, he spends more time writing new books. He remains a director at The Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2449,452],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-25784","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-journalist","category-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/25784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25784"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=25784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}