Renowned Nigerian veteran journalist Peter Enahoro is dead
A renowned Nigerian veteran journalist and an author Peter Enahoro, popularly called Peter Pan, as his pen name, has passed away at the age of 88 in a London Hospital on Monday according to multiple family sources
Penpushing reports that the late columnist for the New African magazine was born.to a family of 10 children, and started media career as an Assistant Publicity Officer, at what is now called Federal Ministry of Information in 1954.
The veteran reporter later joined Daily Times as a sub-editor in 1955, at the age of 20, before moving on to serve as Assistant District Manager at Rediffusion Services, Ibadan, in 1957, and later became the Editor of the Nigerian Sunday Times in 1958 at the age of 23.
Penpushing further reports that he was Features Editor of the Daily Times in 1958, then the paper’s Editor in 1962, going on to become the Daily Times Group Editorial Adviser in 1965, and in 1966, he became Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Times.
The deceased in the 1960s, went into a self-imposed exile that would last for 13 years, and was at a time Contributing Editor of Radio Deutsche Welle in Cologne, Germany, from 1966 to 1976, and was Africa Editor of National Zeitung, in Basel, Switzerland, becoming Editorial Director of New African magazine in London in 1978.
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