Accolades for Vanguard, Uncle Sam as ex-staff launch book, reunite, plan media library

By Osa Amadi,  Adesina Wahab, Juliet Umeh, Cynthia Alo, Providence  Ayanfeoluwa and Chiamaka Aniche
Former staff of Vanguard Media Limited, the publishers of Vanguard Newspapers, yesterday converged on Lagos to launch a book detailing their experiences while they worked with the media outfit.
The launch of the book, titled “The Vanguard Chronology: 40 years of Nigeria’s leading tabloid,” turned out to be an occasion where encomium poured in torrents for the media house that has built a lot of journalism icons and the Publisher, Sam Amuka-Pemu, popularly known as Uncle Sam.
The commendation of the media house and the publisher came from very important personalities, including former ...