Newswatch Best
Edited by Ray Ekpu
Publisher: Newswatch Books Limited
Pages: 446
Price: £15 (Paperback)

Newswatch Best is a collection of articles published in the magazine in its early days and months between 1985 and 1986. The selections, put together by Ray Ekpu, the publishing company’s current chief executive officer are not whimsical. While it is true that they are not representative of what Newswatch emphasised in the years covered, they are a thumb-sketch of some of the events, issues and ideas that gripped the public consciousness through their own life force or through the compelling force of their rendering.
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THE KISS OF DEATH: Afenifere and the Infidels
by Olawale Oshun
Publisher: Josel Publishers, London
Pages: 283
Price: £16.00 (Hardback)

At the end of the April 2003 elections in Nigeria, Afenifere (the dominant Yoruba socio-political group) was shoved out of political reckoning in its South West base by advocates of “Mainstream Politics.” Historians and political analysts have wondered about what happened and have been asking the questions. No one can answer these questions definitively now. Nevertheless, The Kiss of Death: Afenifere and the Infidels is a graphic and candid assessment of the transition of Afenifere and its leaders into their twilight or, at best, into a long-drawn dormancy. The book is about high-wire politics, personal intrigues and political vendetta. It captures the process that led to the opening of the underbelly of Afenifere for piercing by a lurking enemy.
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Aiyekooto
by Victor Olabisi Onabanjo (Edited by Felix A. Adenaike)
Publisher: Syndicated Communications Ltd, Ibadan
Price: £12

Aiyekooto is a collection of works of one of Nigeria’s masters of the art of the pen. Aiyekooto, parrot, is the friendly and homely bird reputed for telling the truth as it is. In Yoruba, it means “the world resents the truth”. The late Victor Olabisi Onabanjo wrote his Aiyekooto column for the Daily Service and the Daily Express, now both defunct, between 1954 and 1962; and for the Nigerian Tribune between 1987 and 1989
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The House in Session: Glimpses from the Second Republic

by Abiola Babatope,
Publisher: Aike Books, Ibadan
Price: £10

The House in Session has been long overdue in the market. But it could not have come at a more auspicious time than now that a civilian government is once again trying to build democracy in Nigeria after many years of military dictatorship. Abiola Babatope was a member of the House of Representatives (from 1979 through 1983), elected on the platform of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) led by the eminent politician, nationalist and statesman Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

House of War

by Dare Babarinsa

Publisher: Spectrum Books Limited, Ibadan & Tell Communications Limited, Lagos
Price: £12

House of War is a chronicle of the bitter and bloody struggle for political power in Nigeria’s Second Republic, especially among the followers of the late sage Chief Obafemi Awolowo. This is the story about the schism in the Awo camp and how Awoists turned against one another in the great scramble for political office. The book exposes the politicians’ grand auction of principles and the political intrigues, double dealings, back stabbings, stealing of votes, arson and killings, that characterised the Second Republic, especially during the 1983 elections.

The Voice Of Reason

By Kola Animasaun

Publisher: Aike Books, Ibadan

Price: £12.00

The Voice of Reason is a collection of columns written over the years by one of Nigeria’s renowned journalists Kola Animasaun.

Who’s Who in Nigeria (2^nd Edition)
Editor: Bankole Makinde
Publisher: Newswatch Books Limited
Price: £32.00

Newswatch Who’s Who in Nigeria (2^nd Edition) is an update of the maiden edition which was published in 1990. It is a standard reference on Nigerians of outstanding accomplishment; the movers and shakers in Nigeria, captains of industry and commerce, titans of the academia, renowned administrators, great scientists, prominent statesmen, famous writers and journalists, barons of the bar and bench, military big-wigs, governors, ministers, commissioners and other leading personalities of the day.

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