Revered media guru and veteran journalist, Chief Tola Adeniyi, is set to launch his new literature .According to reports, the book titled ‘Belly of vultures’ is a voluminous book which is a collation of his major articles on Nigeria, over the last few years.
Since that time he erected a public pressboard at Ago- Iwoye Secondary School, he has devoted his whole life to various genres of mass communication, ranging from acting to singing, to debating, drumming, poetry and choreography.
Credited with well over 13,000 articles in newspapers, journals, and magazines published in virtually all the continents of the world, particularly in Africa, with the defunct Sketch newspapers, the Daily Times, the Nigerian Tribune and the Punch, and in America’s Atlanta Inquirer, Britain’s Lancashire Evening Post, and Canada’s Toronto Star, and York Region’s Business World, Chief Tola Adeniyi is without a doubt, one of the most engaging writers of our time and a world-class intellectual, researcher and scholar.
He has authored several books including Teenagers Must Repent [1964] Aiye Ode Oni [1964], Soul Fire [1974], The Lunatic [1976] Nigerian Professionals [1985] The Jewel, a biography of Chief Mrs. HID Awolowo, Theatre On Wheels [1997] and Deaths in the Thighs [2001.
Also known as Aba Saheed, he has held executive positions as Deputy Managing director of Sketch Newspapers, Director Times Journalism Institute, Editor In Chief, Nigerian Tribune Newspapers, Chairman/ Managing Director of Daily Times of Nigeria, and Chairman/ Publisher of The Stamp and Naked World newspapers.
He has also been a renowned Administrator. He was a Federal Commissioner, National Population Commission 1987-89, Federal Permanent Secretary charged with the relocation of the Federal Capital from Lagos to Abuja, and Special Consultant to Mr. President on Intelligence and Strategy.