Dan Agbese
By Victory Oghene
One of Nigeria’s popular journalists, Dr. Dan Agbese is dead.
Family sources said he died in Lagos State on Monday morning. He was aged 81.
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.
According to family sources, San Agbese passed away this morning in Lagos State at the age of 81.
Dan 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. Agbese was one of the founders of the trail-blazing weekly newsmagazine in Nigeria, Newswatch.
He was until April 2010 the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine.
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.
Agbese was also a highly regarded newspaper columnist.
