Veteran journalist and one of the best columnists of his generation, Dr Dan Agbese, is dead.
The frontline journalist and word smith, who co-founded the Newswatch Magazine alongside the late Dele Giwa and others, according to family sources, died in Lagos on Monday morning, aged 81.
The respected journalist 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.
