 Nigeria's vice president, Professor Yemi Oshibaja, wants all Nigerians to engage one another in discussions in order to resolve the obvious differences in foster peace and stability in the country. And Professor Oshibaja was speaking at the Santa Fe at the Bertha celebration and book launch in honor of the former managing director of the Delhi Times of Nigeria, Dr. Yemi Ogunbin Lagos. The event also had an attendance of former Commonwealth Secretary General, former governor of Ogun State, and other dignitaries, Plastivianist Correspondent, Ongozikai HSC reports. It was an evening of memories, celebration, music and nostalgia. As friends and families of Dr. Yemi Ogunbin gathered to celebrate his seventh or fifth birthday and launched a book, The Road Never Forgets. The pupils of the Yemi Ogunbin Aglikan School, named after the celebrant, provided music interludes. There are speakers at the event, like in Ogunbin's trajectory, to the birth and political growth of Nigeria. The 75-year-old man was born in Kano, in northern Nigeria to a Yoruba father and an Igbo mother, which he vividly narrated in his memoirs. You see, this title, The Road Never Forgets, I wrote a play called The Road. There is no way Yemi Ogunbin would persuade me or anyone that he did not steal the copyright of The Road. I am willing to negotiate with him and I will make whatever extract from him to this worthy cause of universal education. The story is compiled in this book. My siblings and I have been blessed to either witness or hear from my dad over the course of our lives. He told us stories about his childhood in Kano, about his KC days when he was head boy, and when he used to poll votes. Ladies and gentlemen, did you know my father used to poll votes? He taught us about his New York days with Ogunbin Jay, about how writing a PhD looked very different before Pugol. We all know about his days teaching, about how he stumbled into the media industry by chance, but ended up finding a new home there. In his speech, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Emeka Ainyoko, said the only way Nigeria can solve its mirrored problems was for it to revert to true federalism. He used the occasion to charge prospective candidates in the forthcoming 2023 general election to commit themselves to the reformulation of the country's governance system. I believe that the picture that emerges from the book is that Nigeria has largely been on the decline during the period in question, and that in Emeka's words, Nigeria needs a fresh start, new thinking, and a new beginning. It was time for the vice president, Professor Yemio Simbajo, to give his speech. He helped on the need for all Nigerians of all extracts to engage one another in a concrete discussion that can vet peace. In telling this compelling story, we are led through the nationalistic idealism of our pre-colonial days, the excitement of civil rule, and its tragic denouement, then military rule, a curioid hierarchy, other iterations of civil rule, and all manner of contemporary events. But he engages every subject honestly, openly, and frankly. Somehow, it almost seems that by his open, vulnerable style, he disarms and commands empathy and admiration. And perhaps there is counsel there for us as a nation. Perhaps we need to talk more to ourselves and not out ourselves. We need frank discussions on the issues that divide us, and we need openness about our fears and prejudices. Emeritus Professor Femi Oshofiso, a poet, playwright and scholar, reviewed the book. The story of the knife so far left with all these collisions and encounters, the moments of glory and expression, the successes and failures, and so on, is what Yami has assembled in this book. And it is rightly voluminous, taken over by four hundred leaders, structured into four parts of three chapters each, making a total of twelve chapters in all. This book, let me get to know both of you one more time. Yes. Right in this book, I talk to my memory. Even though I was aware that memory could be selective, tricky, and forgetful. But memory, as I argue in the book, is vital. How can we carry our memories? How do we, how do our memories shift our lives? Especially if one had to straddle cultures as a child. In writing this book, however, I confirm that I made no compromises with my past, its worth, and all. Routed family in the belief that a memoir is after all an interplay to memory and history. According to Dr. Ogumbihi, Nigeria needs a fresh start and fresh thinking as nothing can be built on what currently exists. Ngozika or high jersey? Classy. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.