FAJ and his two friends, Olakunle Sikiru Bakare (or Kunle Bakare) and Isiaka Mayowa Akinpelu (or Mayor Akinpelu), founded FAME on a conviction that the time was ripe for an authoritative tabloid capable of giving all those glossy and glamorous foreign tabloids a run for their money – they didn’t want it to play in the local league! And although their collective credentials were never in doubt as to their ability to run a newspaper, the huge investment in ambition made colleagues predict to FAJ, Kunle and Mayor that FAME would not last six months.
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Recall how bread hawker, Olajumoke Orisaguna, who walked past the location where photographer, TY Bello, was having a photo session with London-based rapper, Tinie Tempah, in 2016, and Risikat Azeez, the blue-eyed Kwara State mom, who was abandoned by her husband, became instant celebrities after their stories went viral.
From last week, the media, including the social media, had been dominated with stories on the Otun of the Source and since midnight, seven out of 10 posts in virtually all the social media platforms are messages, stickers and posters on Alao-Akala. It is a period when lovers of the Ogbomosho born politician are showing love and gratitude to the man that means so many things to so many people.
I wanted a magazine that from page one to the last, you can’t put it down. A magazine that will be error-free. A generally good and interesting magazine