Simply A Citizen Journalist: Selected Published Articles from 2006 to 2025 Kindle Edition

Dr Femi Orebe is an outstanding, talented, and consistent newspaper columnist with a large followership of devoted readers. This maiden edition of an extract of his complete work is about a pool of materials that are worthy of being published in a book for posterity. His articles over the years of course covered a wide range of subjects. Consequently, the contents of this book were structured into sections and subsections to bring topics that bear relevance to the title of each section under the same category, and in order of the dates they were published in the newspaper. Some of the sections have more than enough materials for them to be published as a book independently which may still manifest in future as the author continues to share his perspectives on contemporary issues as a going concern.Being a corpus of his weekly published articles in his column in the newspaper, they have to be clinically and strategically packaged in a sequence towards making it more interesting to read for everyone who gets a copy to explore.In all, there are five sections in this book. The first section is about his reminisces on how his journey started as a citizen journalist as well as early working life after graduating in the university and related stories. Section two covers some of his articles classified to be political, which was divided into six categories as subsections. Section three underscores his versatility as an inexhaustible writer; it is a compilation of integrated cogitative articles on contemporary issues of communal and national concern. Majority of his published articles fell in this category and they were arranged in subsections in order of dates too. At various times he paid tributes to individuals and institutions which constitute the fourth section of this book. He also had cause to review some books in his column. These reviews constitute the fifth section.Albeit, the book tells the story of the author, revealing him aggregately as an administrator, technocrat, business manager, politician, business owner, public relations guru, prolific writer, and in fact as a consummate public intellectual. This was done with some vintage pictures to plan the pages, also to further give the compendium a distinct character and complement some of the contents in the book which all together should make the exemplar-literature refreshing to read.It is a must-have book in the library of all ranks of schools, colleges, universities, and individuals who want an irresistible reference-trusted-material on integrated contemporary issues (politics, economy, government, history, dramatis personae in the scheme of things etc.) in Nigeria and around the world in the 20th and 21st century. Read more