As a young journalist at The Punch in 1980, I appeared one morning at Eko Hotel, as it was then known, to interview newly-elected Senator Joseph Tarka.
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A few years later,Mr. Daboh would offer me a juicy job at his offices in Oregun, on the mainland. In 1979, his offices were on Broad Street in Lagos Island. I arrived to find that he had set up several pieces of audio-visual equipment to document the interview.