THERE WAS A NEWSPAPER CALLED NEXT

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Nigeria is the burial ground of big dreams. Dele Olojede brought great honour to Nigeria by winning the coveted Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 2005. Thereafter Olojede dreamed big of publishing a newspaper called NEXT that aspired to break bold new ground in Nigerian journalism by paying handsome salaries, undertaking groundbreaking investigation scoops, disavowing brown envelope bribe-taking etc. It’s cool to remember in this day and age in which the Nigerian government has banned Twitter that NEXT first appeared as a “tweet” in December 2008.…

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