Yakubu Mohammed

The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has paid glowing tributes to the late co-founders of Newswatch Magazine, Yakubu Mohammed and Dan Agbese, describing their deaths as a major loss to Nigerian journalism and the nation at large. This is…
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The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has expressed deepest condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Mr Yakubu Mohammed, a renowned journalist and co-founder of Newswatch magazine, who passed away at the age of 75.…
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A co-founder of Newswatch magazine and its former deputy chief executive officer, Yakubu Mohammed, has died at the age of 75. He was reported to have been battling an undisclosed ailment before his death. As of press time, an official…
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A former Executive Editor of the defunct Newswatch magazine, Yakubu Mohammed, has recounted how a rare interview with Brig.-Gen. David Mark had put the magazine’s directors in trouble with Gen. Sani Abacha. Mohammed recalled the experience…
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Veteran journalist, Yakubu Mohammed, says an unexplainable friction between late Chief MKO Abiola, the publisher of the defunct National Concord, and late Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu and himself led to the founding of Nigeria’s first weekly news…
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One of the founding editors and directors of Newswatch, Yakubu Mohammed, has finally opened up on the assassination of Dele Giwa, the editor-in-chief of arguably Nigeria’s most successful weekly newsmagazine. After Giwa was killed via a…
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