Tunde fatunde biography

Tunde fatunde biography: Tunde Fatunde was born

As budding scholars, he and Iyayi who were like Siamese twins, had already etched themselves in the brewing radical politics on the campus of the University of Benin as Secretary and Chairman respectively of the local branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU. I was in the habit of sharing deep thoughts, banters, wisecracks and graffiti about happenings in our dear country with Tunde Fatunde, who betrayed no inkling that he was nursing a terminal ailment.

The following day, Monday, January 17th, we shared the excitement of the Garden Radio that allows you to listen to any radio stations anywhere in the world. Almost every other day, we exchanged mind boggling posts about developments in Nigeria, sometimes hallucinating whether we are still part of the comity of nations. We chewed about the good, the bad and the ugly.

To compound it, the traffic gridlock on the Badagry road corridor made it easier to pick a pin from a haystack than to continue my normal routine of visiting friends and family members and other fun places in that axis for many years now. I was so scared about unsavory tales of residents and commuters spending endless hours on the shredded Lagos-Badagry road that passes as a semblance of an International gateway that I simply kept off to retain my sanity.

That journey should have taken just one hour when the road was good and commuting was blissful. I later gave him the contact of Rev Fr Anselm Adodo, the founder and director of the Centre if he needed some remedies. When he regaled me about the new property he bought as a retiring home in a new estate in Badagry, I promised him that it would rekindle my escapades to the historic town.

Our paths crossed 40 years ago when I started interacting with the revolutionary group in Benin City from my base at Ife Varsity.