![]() And at 30, in 1966, he became the paper’s Editor-in-Chief. In 1962, at 27, he became the editor of Daily Times. He actually went on to make his own history.Īt 23, Peter Pan became the editor of Sunday Times. Peter Pan did not live in the shadows of Chief Enahoro. But the really remarkable thing is that younger Enahoro was not afraid of stepping into an arena where his older brother had established himself as a legend. In any case, that was also a time when journalism was seen as a craft largely learned on the job. That the duo could go on to establish themselves as writers and icons even with only secondary education spoke both to their industriousness and talent and to the quality of education of that era. In their journalism and their books, the Enahoro brothers wrote in sparkling and lucid prose. The highest education on record for Chief Enahoro was as a graduate of King’s College, Lagos. Two are worth stating briefly: for always getting in and out of jail in brushes with the colonial authorities as a journalist that he was nicknamed ‘Jailbird Enahoro’ and much later as a politician and parliamentarian, for moving, at age 30, the first motion for Nigeria’s independence. Chief Enahoro became noted for other things. ![]() Chief Enahoro was only 21 when he became the editor of the Southern Nigerian Defender, and is on record to be the youngest Nigerian to edit a major newspaper. The man who later became famous as Peter Pan (the name of the column he ran in Daily Times from 1959 to 1966), was following in the glorious footsteps of his older brother, Chief Anthony Enahoro, one of Nigeria’s nationalists and accomplished pressmen.Ĭhief Enahoro made history when in 1944 he became the editor of the Southern Nigerian Defender, one of the newspapers in the West African Pilot group, owned by Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, a journalist and one of Nigeria’s founding fathers. The highest formal education on record for him was as a graduate of Government College Ughelli. Most of those who know about him have heard or read his justifiably popular 1966 book, ‘How to Be a Nigerian.’ But the departed legend was more than a slim book of satire.īorn on 21 st January 1935, Peter Enahoro started out as a journalist in 1955 when he joined Daily Times as a sub-editor. In his 1979 book, ‘The Press of Africa: Persecution and Perseverance,’ Frank Barton described Peter Enahoro as “arguably Africa’s best journalist writing in English Language.” Yet, many Nigerians today within a particular age bracket do not know who Peter Enahoro was. Both were members of a vanishing breed, legends of a vanishing era in a country with a vanishing memory. Both were early achievers who lit the path for others, and in the process secured their place in history in a country afraid of according history its pride of place and of bestowing real achievers their dues. Both were chroniclers of history-one, in a hurry, as a journalist the other, with a retrospective lens, as an academic. Yet, their passing is a great loss to the world of letters, to history and to the country.īoth were national institutions, even when not officially recognised as such. Both lived full, accomplished lives, and as octogenarians lived well into what can be called a ripe age. The following day, Professor Obaro Ikime, devoted teacher, first-rate scholar and renowned historian, followed suit. Peter Enahoro, eminent satirist, celebrated author, and journalist-extraordinaire. This is a hobby website and the views and opinions on this website do not represent NYSDOT or its affiliates.Last week, two grandees of Nigerian letters moved to the great beyond. I-278 east accessible westbound via exit 17W and 48th StreetĪccessible eastbound via the exit 17 ramps The divided highway portion of Suffolk CR 48 is a remnant of the proposed extension of I-495. Plans also existed to extend I-495 to eastern Connecticutt or Rhode Island via a bridge across the Long Island Sound, which were cancelled due to public opposition. In the early 1980s, I-495 was exteneded across the rest of the Long Island Expressway, replacing NY 495, and the route through New Jersey and the Lincoln Tunnel renumbered as NJ 495 and NY 495. It originally entered New Jersey via the Lincoln Tunnel and was planned to connect via the cancelled Mid-Manhattan Expressway, with the extension across Long Island numbered NY 495. I-495 is the main expressway across Long Island and is composed of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel and the Long Island Expressway.
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