Dele Giwa [SEP] educated at
that school.
Dele Giwa travelled to the USA for his higher education, earning a BA in English from Brooklyn College in 1977 and enrolled for a Graduate program at Fordham University. He worked for "The New York Times" as a news assistant for four years after which he relocated to Nigeria to work with "Daily Times".
Dele Giwa and fellow journalists Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese and Yakubu Mohammed founded "Newswatch" in 1984, and the first edition was distributed on 28 January 1985.
A 1989
1986 Akilu had a 10-minute conversation with Dele Giwa during which Akilu assured Giwa that charges the government had on Giwa were going to be dropped. This conversation is said to have occurred about 40 minutes before 2 men in a white Peugeot 504 sedan dropped off a parcel for Dele Giwa which was delivered to Giwa by Giwa's son (Billy). Billy Giwa reportedly noted that the parcel bore the inscription "From the office of the C-in-C" and was marked "secret and confidential". Dele Giwa was