Tag: Dapo Thomas
My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary
By Dapo Thomas I did my post field presentation in 2010 thinking that by 2011, I should be done with my PhD but I was wrong. A friend of mine who finished in the same...
My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary (PART 77
Dapo Thomas We used to talk regularly. So, when Dele Alake called, I thought it was one of those regular calls. But this time around, he called to inform me of a...
My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary (Part 76)
Dapo Thomas The Head of Service, Mr Yakub Balogun, didn’t know how to start but he had to deliver the message BRF had sent him: ” Dapo Thomas must...
My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary (Part 75)
Dapo Thomas The stage was set for the exit and entrance of two Governors of Lagos State. Bola Ahmed Tinubu was exiting, Babatunde Raji Fashola was coming...
My Diary: From Primary to Tertiary (Part 74)
Dapo Thomas While the welfare package was being sorted out, I had called a meeting of the Forum of Senior Special Assistants and Special Assistants for...
My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary (Part 73)
Dapo Thomas When I told Engr. Rahman Owokoniran, who had just been appointed the Commissioner for Housing, not to eat with Governor Bola Tinubu, he...
My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary (PART 72)
Dapo Thomas Suddenly, Prof. Fatiu Akesode died. He died March 30, 2001. He died just a month after he got his second term of 4 years. He was first...
My Diary: From Primary to Tertiary.(Part 71)
Dapo Thomas Two hours after Lai Muhammed went to Oga’s office (that’s what I called the Governor officially), I didn’t hear anything from above....
My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary
Dapo Thomas Then he said:” Why do you want to work directly with me?” I replied that I prefer a relationship that would make it easy for the two of us to...
My Diary:From Primary to Tertiary (Part 69)
By Dapo Thomas On Thursday, April 30, 1998 at about noon, I was in my office in the City Hall holding a meeting with the representatives of the newly formed...
