Yemi Ogunbiyi's retrospections on the road that never forgets, By Kunle Ajibade
Yemi Ogunbiyi writes about the last time he saw MKO Abiola in detention, and an Egba Chief was pressurising him to give up his mandate.
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Yemi Ogunbiyi writes about the last time he saw MKO Abiola in detention, and an Egba Chief was pressurising him to give up his mandate.
Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi tells in his riveting autobiography The Road Never Forgets how he overcame tribulations to attain successes in life.
Here we meet Yemi Ogunbiyi who did not spend his childhood bathed in wealth and privilege but who, through a combination of fate and grit, has grown to become a decent, compassionate man with a shrewd business sense; a charming liberal humanist endowed with a brilliant organisational mind; a wise and gracious cosmopolitan with polish…
I trace that era of great economic resurgence back in the day to the presence in South-West Nigeria of commodity boards.
‘In between lectures, we angrily discuss the rising cost of food, soap, toothpaste, transport.’ An extract from Small by Small by Ike Anya.