Nigeria, Oct. 20 -- Veteran journalist and co-founder of Newswatch magazine, Ray Ekpu, has recounted how the assassination of Dele Giwa, the magazine's founding editor-in-chief, frightened his five-year-old son into abandoning his dream of becoming a journalist.

Ekpu spoke on Monday at the launch of Dele Giwa's Granite Journalism at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) in Lagos.

The book features some of Giwa's writings published in Daily Times, Sunday Concord and Newswatch, alongside interviews and essays examining his journalism and legacy.

Giwa was killed on October 19, 1986, when a parcel bomb delivered to his residence in Ikeja, Lagos, exploded during the military administration of Ibrahim Babangida, who ruled Nigeria from ...