By DAVID IORJA, Abuja –
President Muhammadu Buhari has rejoiced with frontline journalist, editor and author, Mike Awoyinfa, as he turns 70.
President Buhari’s congratulatory message was contained in a statement issued by his spokesman Mr Femi Adesina on Sunday in Abuja.
“The President recalls with delight the more than four decades Awoyinfa has devoted to journalism, informing, educating and entertaining the public with the best of prose and literary prowess, plying his trade with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Concord Press, The Sun Newspapers, and publishing the Entertainment Express, among others”.
He equally saluted the journalist’s foray into book writing, and encourages many more journalists to toe the same path, “since books virtually live forever, and reading makes a full man.”
President Buhari also congratulated the Awoyinfa family, the media profession at large, and specifically the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Nigeria Guild of Editors (NGE) and Newspapers Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), on the landmark occasion.
He wishes Awoyinfa longer life in good health, “and greater contributions to a profession he loves so much.”
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