The Nigeria Union of Journalists, Lagos State Council is to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassination of renowned journalist, Dele Giwa, with a colloquium in Lagos on October 19, 2016.
Giwa, the pioneer Editor-in-Chief of NewsWatch magazine, was killed via a parcel bomb at his Ikeja, Lagos residence on October 19, 1986.
According to a statement issued on Wednesday by the Chairman and Assistant Secretary of Lagos NUJ, Deji Elumoye and Alfred Odifa, late Giwa is being remembered 30 years after his gruesome murder for what he stood for as a through bred professional journalist.
The colloquium, with the theme: “Safety of Journalists and Culture of Impunity in Africa,” the release said, being put together in partnership with the Dele Giwa Foundation, will hold at Multipurpose Hall of Radio Lagos/Eko FM, Agidingbi Road in Ikeja by 10am, with social critic and rights activist, Femi Falana, as Guest Speaker.
Those to discuss Falana’s paper at the event to be chaired by former President of the NUJ and Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Internally Displaced Persons, Hon. Sani Zorro, include the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Fatai Owoseni; the President of Tell Communications Limited Nosa Igiebor; and the President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Funke Egbemode.
Other discussants are the Deputy Managing Director of ThisDay Newspapers, Kayode Komolafe; 2nd Vice President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Monday Ubani; and the Managing Director of The Sun Newspapers, Eric Osagie.
The statement further said the Executive Secretary of the Dele Giwa Foundation, Richard Akinnola, will deliver a keynote address, while Special Guests of Honour at the occasion include Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki; Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State; Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa; and the three Senators representing Lagos State in the National Assembly – Senators Adeola Solomon, Oluremi Tinubu and Gbenga Ashafa.
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