A new magazine, Verbatim, which the publishers describe as “product of the ingenuity and enterprise of an assembly of many former editors, reporters and managers of Newswatch magazine,” will hit the newsstands nationwide on September 10.
It will be published as an investigative news magazine, every fortnight, by Verbatim News Network Limited, with headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital.
Verbatim, according to a statement by the management of the media organisation, has Tobs Agbaegbu, former Senior Associate Editor and Newswatch Bureau Chief in Abuja, as Editor-in-Chief.
The release also named Anza Phillips, a former Assistant Editor who covered the Presidency for Newswatch, as Executive Editor.
Agbaegbu and Phillips have already resigned from Newswatch.
Agbaegbu, the editor-in-chief, who signed the release, said the new magazine is meant to provide detailed, well investigated insight into contemporary national and global issues, as it affects Nigeria, Nigerians and their interests.
He promised that the magazine will live up to its name.
“We shall leave up to our name. We shall report verbatim, and present news as it is. We shall also give our readers a high dose of exclusives, as will be obtained from our investigative prowess.. Collectively, we have it in our veins, our blood and bone marrow,” Agbaegbu said.