On October 19, 1986, exactly 25 years, The founding editor-in-chief of Newswatch magazine, was killed at his breakfast table through a parcel bomb.

On the said date, Mr. Giwa's house on number 25, Talabi Street in Ikeja, Lagos was rocked to its foundations by a violent blast. When the dust cleared, and the debris was sifted, the news emerged that the foremost journalist had been ripped to shreds by a parcel bomb.

He was known for finesse in both his craft and the art of dressing, and was credited with breaking news stories that never failed to rattle Nigeria's military regimes.

His last words were quoted as; "they got me." .

Although his death through a parcel bomb was the first and only of such an incident in the country but let us ask ourselves, how safe are truth seekers and publishers in this country even under the democratic government?

And no one responds to a thread like this
Dele Giwa is dead
Truth is dead

Nigeria sha!