6th August 2025, NewsOrient, News, Media, Governance And Development, Lifestyle
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Dr Doyin Abiola, the wife of the late Chief MKO Abiola, the winner of Nigeria’s June 12 Presidential Election, is dead. The highly respected journalist, died on Tuesday night, August 5, 2025.

NewsOrient reports that Mrs Doyin Abiola, who worked and reported for Daily Sketch and Daily Times at the dawn of her career, made history in 1980 when she was appointed the Editor of National Concord. With that appointment, she became the first woman title Editor of a national newspaper in Nigeria.

She did not stop there. In 1986, she was promoted as the Managing Director and Editor-in- Chief of the Concord Group of Newspapers, also as the first woman in Nigeria to hold that position. She not only undertook that assignment meritoriously but it is on record that all through her tenure as the Chief Execute, she led National Concord to set enviable records in Nigerian media space.

In his condolence message to the family, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu said, “She broke the gender barrier, becoming the first woman to edit a national newspaper and the first managing director of a daily newspaper.

Wikipedia reports of her education and career thus: “Doyin Abiola was educated at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where she earned a degree in English and Drama in 1969…

“After graduation, she started work with the Daily Sketch Newspaper in 1969. During this period, she started writing a column in the newspaper called Tiro which was addressing sundry issues of public concern, including gender matters.

“In 1970, she left Daily Sketch Newspaper and traveled to the United States to pursue a master’s degree programme in Journalism.

“Upon her return, she was employed as a Features Writer at Daily Times and rose to become the Group Features Editor.

“She later went to New York University and obtained a PhD in communications and political science in 1979…

“After her PHD programme, she returned to the Daily Times and was deployed to the editorial board where she worked with other experienced editors like Stanley Macebuh, Dele Giwa and Amma Ogan.”

NewsOrient reports that it was at this point of her career that she was poached to serve as the Editor of National Concord.

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