One of the founders of Newswatch magazine in 1984 , Mr Yakabu Mohammed has raised the hope that the magazine may soon return to newstand.
Mohammed made this remarks while launching his memoir ‘Beyond Expectations’, The Legend News reports.
He disclosed that efforts were on top gear to regain ownership of the magazine from a business man cum politician , Mr Jimoh Ibrahim.
He lamented that the misfortune of the magazine started when sourcing for investors which made them to fall into the trap of Jimoh Ibrahim.
Said Yakubu Mohammed in his book :’ Newswatch, the darling of media consumers in Nigeria and abroad , had suffered an almost irreversible misfortune.
At the time of writing this, it has been off the streets for 13 years’.
He, however, said that out of court settlement was on the table and in the nearest future, the magazine shall hit newsstand.
The Pond News recalled that Newswatch was founded by a crop of former editors from the defunct National Concord in 1984.
They were Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbase and Yakubu Mohammed.
The newswatch was a hot cake but the life of the founding editor Dele Giwa was cut short through a letter bomb under General Ibrahim Babaginda administration in 1986.
