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

Newswatch is the pre-eminent newsmagazine in Nigeria, having started with a bang in 1985 under its first Editor-in-Chief Dele Giwa, who was controversially murdered in October 1986 in a parcel bomb attack. It has grown from strength to strength and is the yardstick that other newsmagazines which have followed the trail blazer are judged.

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.

The collection includes news stories, features, columns and preface to cover that readers will find interesting and enjoyable.

About the Editor

Ray Ekpu is one on Nigeria’s foremost journalists and is winner of many national and international awards. He succeeded the late Dele Giwa as Newswatch Editor-in-Chief in 1986, but later relinquished the position to become the chief executive office of the magazine’s publishing company. He is married with children