"Premier" Opara:
WE (historian) I like to have documentation but not innuendo or speculation. Brother Giwa was someone many of us respected and admired. Do you know that after his death, there were rumors that he might have been killed because he was investigating what Journalists refer to as an "expose" story? There was also the nuanced allegation that the government of the day might be involved for exposing certain criminal and immoral acts in high places. Which one do we believe?
You may not need the book to know the new "facts", but some of us need it. After all, if "who killed Dele Giwa and why" are common knowledge, then why has there not been any arrest or prosecution in Nigeria, or the killers are also dead, or are untouchable in Nigeria?
\A.B. Assensoh, Oregon.
From: Chidi Anthony Opara [chidi.opara@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 6:54 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Cc: Afoaku, Osita; Osili, Una O; anthonyakinola@yahoo.co.uk; stephenagyepong@gmail.com; andohs1@southernct.edu; Wahab, Hassan; iaduah66@yahoo.com; eemokube@uoregon.edu; ericobek@yahoo.com; Assensoh, Akwasi B.
Subject: Re: FW: Nigerian Booksellers' bombshell publication on the late Editor Dele Giwa
Who killed Dele Giwa and why, is already common knowledge.
CAO.
On Thursday, 28 November 2013 13:04:03 UTC+1, Assensoh, Akwasi B. wrote:
Dear All:
I extend happy, warm and blessed Thanksgiving greetings from "rainy" Oregon!
I am sharing information on a new book that may be a bombshell. As a "young" university professor and director of an honors program in Louisiana, USA, I always treasured the late NEWSWATCH Editor Dele Giwa's communication asking me to assist his newsmagazine (NEWSWATCH) to get international advertising from some sources that I was familiar with, especially from car-manufacturing companies in USA, Sweden, Germany and the UK. I agreed but, before we could do anything concrete, he was assassinated with a parcel bomb in his office. Please, read the new book.
A.B. Assensoh, Oregon, USA.
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| | | | | | | | | | 2013-11-28 07:14:00 | Adewale Aloko | |  | Former Chief Press Secretary to former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.), Major Debo Bashorun (rtd.), is back on the scene with a new book that promises to reveal some hidden chapters in the nation's history, To most Nigerians who were witnesses to the events that followed the murder of the founder of Newswatch Magazine, Dele Giwa, via a parcel bomb, Major Debo Bashorun's name must ring a bell. Now retired from the Army, the erstwhile Chief Press Secretary to former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.), has written a new book that seeks to unravel the identities of Giwa's killers and the circumstances that led to the controversial assassination. Bashorun's new book is titled Honour for Sale and it was presented to the public on Friday, November 22, 2013 at the Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos. In an interview with our correspondent, the author says the book is an insider's account of what truly transpired between the slain journalist and the military government… | | | | | | | | | | | |
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