Veteran journalist and co-founder of Newswatch magazine, Dan Agbese has died at the age of 81.
According to family sources, the renown journalist died on Monday morning in Lagos.
Agbese co-founded the iconic magazine, Newswatch, with Dele Giwa, who was killed by a parcel bomb in 1986, a case still unresolved decades later.
The late Dele Giwa was assassinated by a parcel bomb in 1986, an incident widely linked in public discourse to the regime of then Military Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida, though no one has ever been officially prosecuted for the murder.
Agbese held degrees in mass communications and journalism from the University of Lagos and Columbia University, New York, respectively.
He was a former editor of The Nigeria Standard, the New Nigerian as well as former general manager of Radio Benue.
He was until April 2010 the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine, and later a newspaper columnist.
He was the author of several acclaimed books, including Nigeria their Nigeria, Fellow Nigerians, The Reporter’s Companion, Style: A Guide to Good Writing and The Columnist’s Companion: The Art and Craft of Column Writing.
