In 2007, Funke Fadugba retired as general manager-news/current affairs of DAAR Communications, Lagos.
With her retirement, she appeared to have bid goodbye to active journalism, having worked in various media outfits for 30 years.
But, the truth is that a journalist is a journalist. It is difficult to resist the newsroom and its politics, the thrills and frills of the profession.
The versatile journalist told a national newspaper recently that she came into journalism by accident after her secondary school education in Ibadan, Oyo state.
Her words: “My father, who retired as a police officer and became a politician in Lagos, facilitated it through one of his political leaders and the man took me to Lagos Radio, where I started work”.
She was the first female secretary and chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Lagos State and achieved a lot during her tenure and help in building a formidable team that assisted practising journalists in the state.
According to her, she was actually dreaming of becoming a lawyer, before her father changed her plan.
Today, Fadugba, a retiree but not tired journalist, read Educational Planning / Administration at Babcook University and is still dreaming of going for her master’s degree.
In addition to this, the former Lagos NUJ chair has established a school that is maintaining high standards of education in our country.