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An afternoon with Mahmud Jega AbdulYassar AbdulHamid A moment after picking an interest in journalism partly for its productivity and partly for its being a hub of information, which is power in disguise, I started to poke my nose into journalism-related things. The questions of how journalists (especially editors) cope with working in isolation sometimes, meeting publication deadline (deadline pressure) which may mean all-nighter, paying attention to details, which I have seen in the eyes and words of Musa Tijjani of the Triumph Newspaper and the mobility that requires high sense of adaptability and versatility started troubling my mind. How editors and their trainees manage all these? I do not know. All I know is whenever I visit the Triumph Newspaper’s office; I will see the editor-in-chief, Sabo Lawal Ibrahim, and other editors busy with their eyes fixed straight on their laptops. Or like a pendulum, they will be oscillating from one place to another in search of what will enric...