Nigeria, Feb. 17 -- Nearly 40 years after the gruesome murder of Dele Giwa, the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the federal government to reopen an investigation into the incident.

Mr Giwa was 39 years old when he was blown to smithereens by a parcel bomb at his residence in Lagos, South-west Nigeria in October 1986.

Reputed as one of Nigeria's foremost investigative journalists at the time during the military regime of Ibrahim Babangida, Mr Giwa's death remains one of the many unresolved cases in Nigeria.

But the judgement by Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday offers a glimmer of hope in tortuous advocacy for Mr Giwa's killers brought to justice.

In the judgement, Mr Ekwo asked the government to recommen...