Dele Giwa's Legacy sold : Jimoh Ibrahim acquires Newswatch magazine, What Happened to the "Premier" of Investigative Journalism in Nigeria Ray Ekpu Yakubu Mohammed, Dan Agbese etc the site is aesthetically disheartning  http://www.newswatchngr.com/ Nigeria We indeed Hail thee.

Who killed Dele Giwa still is a mystery ..

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LAGOS - As part of measures to save the moribund Newswatch magazine, business mogul and Publisher of National Mirror titles, Mr Jimoh Ibrahim, and his turn-around team, Thursday, concluded arrangement for the final acquisition of the magazine when it signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the former owner and the new management. 

Under the new arrangement, the backlog of seven months staff salary being owed are to be paid by the new management while all debts being owed will also be offset by the new owner. 
Addressing members of staff of the magazine yesterday, Ibrahim, who introduced the principal members of his turn-around team, explained that his turn-around mission in Newswatch magazine would not tamper with the editorial build up of the magazine but would be greatly concentrated in the managerial aspect of the company to ensure that the vision of the founding fathers of the magazine does not "go under, but survive." 
Speaking further, Ibrahim who expressed confidence in the ability of the editorial departments to deliver also stated that though he has not done a proper diagnosis of the paper but he was relying on the reports submitted by members of his acquisition team who stated that the principal problem of the magazine was that of finance and not incompetence, hence his readiness to invest in the magazine. 
While assuring the employees of having no plans of sacking anyone, he explained that those that may be affected are those who joined the company without following the due process or those that have fraudulent promotion or those that are owing the company's money and have not reconciled their accounts. 
To demonstrate his readiness to ensure a speedy take_off of the magazine under the new management, Ibrahim explained that the new management has resolved that all the employees of Newswatch magazine will as from today (Friday) commence a training and orientation to upgrade and refresh their knowledge to conform with the realities and aspirations of the new management of the company. 
Towards this, all employees of the magazine were directed to report at Nicon Hotel and Suites, Ajah by 8:00 a.m Friday 6th May, 2011for the orientation course that will take them through to Sunday 8th, May, 2011. 
While promising a cash injection to take care of the outstanding salary arrears as well as to offset the debt incurred by the company, Jimoh Ibrahim also told the employees to be ready to swap job to any of the companies already in his conglomerate if they so desired. 
Among the principal officers that make up the turn_around team for Newswatch magazine is the editor of the magazine, Bala Dan Abu who is saddled with the editorial build_up portfolio, while the position of Mr Ray Ekpu as the C.E.O of the magazine was said to be altered to a higher pedestal.

The Dele Giwa Murder: Where are they now

Ibrahim Babangida

In 2001, Mr. Babangida was summoned before the Justice Oputa panel based on a petition sent by Gani Fawehinmi, Giwa’s lawyer. Mr. Babangida refused to appear, and went to court to challenge the legality of the panel asking that it be barred from compelling him to appear before it.

Both the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court (2004) ruled in his favour. In October 2008 he told a Lagos-based television station: “I feel really pained that the cold hands of death snatched him... The killers of Dele Giwa were not found because Nigerians had already made up their minds on who the killers were... Nigerians did not co-operate with the government, that is why it has proved difficult to apprehend the killers of Dele Giwa.”

Kayode Soyinka

Kayode Soyinka, the London Bureau Chief of Newswatch, survived the blast that killed Dele Giwa. He fled to the United Kingdom, and remained in exile for eight years. In 1994, he founded a monthly newsmagazine, Africa Today. In recent years he has been visible on the political field, with gubernatorial attempts in Ogun State on the platform of opposition parties. He has indicated interest in contesting the 2011 governorship election.

Ray Ekpu

Dele Giwa’s friend and deputy at Newswatch. Both men were also neighbours in Ikeja. He took over the management of Newswatch Communications after Dele Giwa’s death, and remains its Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-chief.

Kunle Togun

At the time of Giwa’s death he was a Lieutenant Colonel and the Deputy Director-General of the State Security Service. Mr. Togun went on to retire as a Brigadier-General, and in 2004 published a book on the Dele Giwa assassination, “Dele Giwa: The Unanswered Questions”, in which he denies complicity in Giwa’s death.His book includes a public letter to Giwa’s mother, in which he says: “I swear to you in the name of the Living God that I knew nothing and have no hand in the death of your dear son, Dele.” Togun is currently active in the clamour for the creation of Oke Ogun State out of the present Oyo State.

Halilu Akilu

He was Director of Military Intelligence at the time of Giwa’s death. He later went on to become Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, and then National Security Coordinator. He was among a batch of 17 military officers retired by Abacha on November 27, 1993.

Gani Fawehinmi

Gani, Dele Giwa’s lawyer, instituted 38 court cases and made more than 200 court appearances in his quest for justice regarding the assassination. In January 1990 he was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for contempt of court, a fallout of a libel case brought against him by Mr.Akilu and Mr.Togun. Gani testified before the Justice Oputa Panel on December 11, 2000 and July 11, 2001. Fawehinmi died of lung cancer on September 5, 2009.

Chris Omeben

At the time of Giwa’s death he was the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police heading the Criminal Investigations Department, and therefore in charge of the investigations into the bombing. At an Oputa Panel sitting he was mentioned by Abubakar Tsav as the person who knew what happened to the Dele Giwa murder case files. Now RT. Rev. Dr. Chris A. Omeben, he is the Archbishop of Jesus Family Ministries Church, and President of All Neighbours Institute of Theology, Lagos.

Mohammed Buba Marwa

In June 2009 Mr. Marwa was accused, in widely publicized interviews with at least two media houses, by Taiyemiwo Ogunade of being the courier of the bomb that killed Dele Giwa. In Marwa’s defence, a statement was issued by Bayo Yusuf, his Personal Assistant, saying that between September and November 1986 Marwa (who took command of 233 Tank Battalion in August 1986) was involved in the annual battalion test exercise in Bauchi State.

Mr. Marwa is Nigeria’s High Commissioner to South Africa, having previously served as Military Administrator of Borno and Lagos States.

James Oduneye

A 1968 graduate of the Nigerian Law School, he was the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions at the time of Giwa’s death. He later became the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, and then a Judge of Lagos State. In 1993 he ordered Classique magazine to pay ₦10 million to Mr. Akilu, as damages for libel. He retired in February 2004 as a Justice of the Ikeja High Court.

Eniola Fadayomi

She was the Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice when Giwa was murdered. In February 1988 she filed murder charges against Akilu and Togun. On the day the case came up for hearing she agreed with the defence that the accused had no case to answer. She is the chairperson of Millennium Harvest Limited, Publishers of Financial Standard Newspapers, and Principal Partner, Eniola Fadayomi & Co. She is also the 2nd Vice President of the Institute of Directors.

Abubakar Tsav

He was the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) assigned to the Dele Giwa murder case. He later became Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Oyo, Abia and Sokoto states. In his statement to the Oputa Panel he said:

“I submitted an interim report high lighting my preliminary findings ...and recommended that both Col. Haliku Akilu and Lt. Colonel A. K. Togun against whom there was strong circumstantial evidence for conspiracy and murder, be made available for interrogation and voice identification… He is now an outspoken social critic and commentator on national affairs