Newswatch sacks ray ekpu biography

When news broke a few days back that veteran journalist, Ray Ekpu was going to turn 70, on 6th August, it came as a pleasant surprise.

This is because there is nothing about this co-founder of Newswatch magazine to suggest he is that far gone in age.

Ray Ekpu has always been seen as that star journalist who rocked the 80s along with his other colleagues like late Dele Giwa, Dan Agbese and Yakubu Mohammed. Years after, he is still his bubbly self, bouncing like a footballer, whenever he walks.

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At 70, he has no strand of grey hair on his head which is clean shaven and he has kept his baritone voice.

Many can’t just believe that the young journalist of yester years has now clocked 70. He is not only a father, he is a grandfather.

To celebrate his 70th birthday, he  simply organised a birthday colloquium on NIGERIA: The Leadership Question.

Last week, City People interviewed Ray Ekpu at his Lagos home and he didn’t