October 19, 1986, Nigeria lost one of the boldest journalist of the time, Dele Giwa. He received an explosive in a package masked as mere correspondence. His death was blamed on the government of the day, but it was never proved.
Sumonu Oladele “Baines” Giwa was born on March 16, 1947 to a poor family working in the palace of Oba Adesoji Aderemi, the Ooni of Ife. He attended local Authority Modern School in Lagere, Ile-lfe.

He later travelled to the USA for his higher education, earning a BA in English from Brooklyn College in 1977 and enrolled for a Graduate program at Fordham University. He worked with the New York Times as a news assistant for four years after which he relocated to Nigeria to work with Daily Times.

Dele Giwa and fellow journalists Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese and Yakubu Mohammed founded Newswatch in 1984, and the first edition was distributed on 28 January 1985. The magazine was known to have initiated a turning point in journalism in the country.

Dele Giwa was killed by a mail bomb in his Lagos home on 19 October 1986.