VERSATILE sports journalist, researcher and archivist extraordinaire Kayode Tijani is dead. He died on Wednesday, 7 February, 2024 at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja after a protracted illness. He was 55 years old.

Aliu Kayode Tijani started out as a youth prodigy with an insatiable passion for collecting and preserving sports records and memorabilia; as well as meeting and taking memorable pictures with famous sports personalities.

He went on to study at the Nigeria Institute of Journalism (NIJ) in Lagos and effectively began his sports journalism career as a reporter with Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Football magazine and Complete Sports newspapers in the late 1980s. He cut his teeth under the tutelage of sports journalism icons Dr. Emmanuel Sunny Ojeagbase, Frank Ilaboya and Dr. Mumini Alao.

Thereafter, he served for many years as the pioneer sports editor of FAME magazine, a society publication, where he

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