₦airaland Forum

BEST JOURNALIST OF ALL TIME (NIGERIA)

The story is told of how scribblers of old are excused by the most sacrilegious, from the violence of war. Journalists, even in the modern world had no such courtesy extended to them. By their will power, they kept the true narrative flowing, disregarding imminent threat. Their pen, countless times akin to the most potent weapons, did not run dry when it most matter.

Here listed are Nigeria's best journalists in history. Kindly vote one of the listed as the Best Of All Time, BOAT by following the link to their respective profiles.

DELE GIWA

Journalist and executive of the Newswatch magazine, a foremost Nigerian periodical founded in 1984. As reflected in his editorial, Dele Giwa believed the rarer the the story, the more important.

To Vote: https://litcaf.com/dele-giwa/

ERNEST SESSI IKOLI

Nigerian first generation politician and journalist who gained a reputation in the 1920s as a colorful nationalist.

To Vote: https://litcaf.com/ernest-ikoli/

GAB OSUAGWU-IHEUKWUEMERE

Nigerian journalist. Gab was also an author, broadcaster, publisher, educationist, theologian, administrator and public relations expert. Gab was conferred justice of the Peace (JP) by the colonial Governor of the then Eastern Nigeria for his investigative journalism.

To Vote: https://litcaf.com/gab-osuagwu-iheukwumere/

JOHN PAYNE-JACKSON

Started the commercially successful Lagos Weekly Record in 1890 and was for the next twenty-five years one of the most outstanding journalists in the whole of West Africa.

To Vote: https://litcaf.com/john-payne-jackson/

MICHAEL C.K. AJULUCHUKWU

Journalist and politician. Ajachukwu played a significant role in Nigeria’s quest for independence.

To Vote: https://litcaf.com/mck-ajuluchukwu/

MOJOLA AGBEBI

Native name of the journalist and poet who was born April 10, 1860 as David Brown Vincent in Ilesha. Between 1880 and 1914, he sat on the editorial chairs of nearly all major Lagos newspapers.

To Vote:
https://litcaf.com/mojola-agbebi/

OLUSEGUN OSOBA

Journalist who became famous when he discovered the body of Prime Minster Tafa Balewa who was murdered in 1966. He rose to become the MD of Daily Times.

To Vote: https://litcaf.com/olusegun-osoba/

RICHARD AKINWANDE SAVAGE

Vocational journalist and medical doctor. Akinwande established Saturday newspaper, Nigerian Spectator in 1923, a nationalist medium through which in the seven years of its existence, he became a famous writer and one of the most renowned vocational journalists of his time.

To Vote: https://litcaf.com/richard-akinwande-savage/

STANLEY MACEBUH

Nigerian journalist, one of the most celebrated. From the Daily Times, he joined a group of other media intellectuals to establish The Guardian.

To Vote: https://litcaf.com/stanley-macebuh/

THOMAS HORATIO JACKSON

Horatio was prolific and he made use of complex words and quotations as a journalist. He inherited the management of his equally renowned father's Lagos Weekly in 1915.

To Vote: https://litcaf.com/thomas-horatio-jackson/