Nigeria, Nov. 21 -- Dan Ochima Agbese, veteran journalist, master prose stylist, and co-founder of Newswatch magazine, has passed on, leaving behind one of the most enduring legacies in Nigerian media history. As part of the iconic quartet that birthed Newswatch, alongside Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu, and Yakubu Mohammed, Agbese helped to redefine investigative journalism in the 1980s and 1990s.

Calm, disciplined, and intellectually rigorous, Agbese wrote with clarity and purpose, challenging authority without theatrics and mentoring a generation of younger journalists who looked to him for both guidance and moral grounding. More than a columnist, he was an institution builder and a conscience of public life. For decades, Agbese's voice, always ...