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Flashback on History: How Parcel Bomb Killed Dele Giwa, ‘The Flaming Journalist Who Gave Tyrants Nightmares’

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Yesterday, Thursday 19th October, marks the 31st remembrance anniversary of Sumonu Oladele ‘Baines’ Giwa (16 March 1947 – 19 October 1986); a legendary Nigerian journalist, died after he was killed through a parcel bomb....Click Here To Continue Reading>>

Dele Giwa

In a 2016 article, Bayo Oluwasanmi described Dele Giwa as “a flaming journalist with a fiery message of rebuke” who had a “knack for packaging stories that injected sleeplessness and nightmares in the tyrants of his days”.

On Thursday, October 19, 2017, it became 31 years since Giwa, pioneer editor-in-chief of Newswatch, was assassinated….Read Full Story…>>>

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