The Author, Mr. Idahosa Asowata was one of the very brilliant trainee -journalists at the Times Journalism Institute (TJI), Lagos where I was the Deputy Director in 1980-86. I remember, as if it were yesterday, Mr. Asowata's top rate performances in General Reporting, Specialised Reporting and Current Affairs which I handled.That he has decided to write a book on REPORTING is a very wise decision on his part. First, he has the experience - reportorially garnered for almost two decades from one of Africa's biggest newspapers conglomerate - The DAILY TIMES of Nigeria.Mr. Idahosa has always had the zeal for EXCLUSIVE reports which made him his editor's hope for front page lead stories when news was scarce.I recommend this book to budding journalists especially cub-reporters. I equally recommend it to Journalism Institutions. This book fills a lacuna in the theory and practice of Reportorial Journalism because there had been a vacuum.Any journalist who lays hand on this book will find it difficult to put down until he has read it from page to page.I am proud of Mr. Idahosa Asowata and this debut publication of his. Obviously, if he hadn't passed through my hands as a trainee - journalist in 1981-2, he wouldn't have been a journalist today. And this book wouldn't have been written for you to read.