Twenty-nine years after he was killed by a letter bomb, Dele Giwa, founding editor-in-chief of Newswtach magazine still lives in the mind of many, not just journalists.

 Mr. Richard Akinnola, journalist/legal practitioner is one of several journalists who  has made this possible. And to commemorate the 29th anniversary of  Giwa's assassination, the Media Law Centre, MLC would be hosting  a capacity building seminar for journalists in Abuja.
Akinnola, Director of MLC  says the event would also witness the  media presentation of two books:
1. The Law of Defamation made Simple
2. Trial by the Media: Saraki's case in perspective.

 The seminar with the theme: The Legal Limits of Journalism and book presentation  holds Monday, October 19, 2015 at Grand Ibro Hotel, Abuja

 The MLC is a non-governmental organisation focused on media law issues

 it would be recalled that Dele Giwa was killed by a mail bomb in his Ikeja, Lagos home on 19 October 1986. The assassination occurred two days after he had been interviewed by State Security Service (SSS) officials.
In an off-the-record interview with airport journalists, Lt. Col. A.K Togun, the then  Deputy Director of  SSS had claimed that on 9 October Dele Giwa and Alex Ibru had organised a media parley for media executives and the newly created SSS. Togun claimed that it was at this meeting that the SSS and the media executives reached a secret censorship agreement. Under this agreement, the media was to report any story with potential to embarrass the government to the SSS before they tried to publish same.