BUHARI SENDS BIRTHDAY WISHES TO “UNDISPUTED JOURNALISM ICON” LOUIS ODION AT 50
President Muhammadu Buhari has celebrated and congratulated Mr. Louis Odion, a former Edo State Commissioner of Information, and ex-Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of National Life newspaper, a subsidiary of The Nation newspaper, as he attained the golden age of 50 on Saturday.
In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, Buhari described Odion, a leading columnist and crack newspaperman, “an indisputable journalism icon.”, adding that “in a country as diverse as Nigeria, it is not always easy to get a journalist stirring public discourse and popular opinion for upward of two decades without triggering the disapproval of the public.
‘‘However, in the last twenty years, Louis has fascinated the countrymen and women by making such an impossible possible, using his exceptional journalistic talent to inform, educate and entertain the public.
“Louis’s magical art of writing is recognized and respected in Nigeria and beyond. Even his detractors agree that his essays have a philosophy behind them and they benefit society. We wish him good health and many more years of service to the nation.”
