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...asked them all the impossible questions and people actually answered him,” Adio says. “Government officials were not supposed to be questioned. And this guy was very, very bold. And I told myself that I wanted to be like this guy when I grew...
...Adio entered the University of Lagos in 1988 and studied mass communications—a program so competitive it took him three attempts to get admitted. Looking back, Adio remembers his ignorance to the financial hardships that would come with the territory once he became a professional reporter...
...year after graduating Adio found a job in 1993 at an obscure newspaper called New Vision. But determined not to become one of the shabby ones without a car, he became restless with the paper’s small circulation and joined the staff of the Temple newspaper...
...addition to reaping the benefits of a larger circulation, Adio was exposed to the risks of being a journalist under the military rule of General Sani Abacha...
Stigmatized by the “radical” label and even faced with threats of arrest, Temple staffers like Adio kept the paper afloat—campaigning for democracy by working underground...