George Mba: Better late than never

I was miffed when George Mba, the former Senior Assistant Editor of TELL Magazine, who was incarcerated for his uncompromising dedication to truth and press freedom, was missing in the last year’s honour’s roll for pro-democracy martyrs. More concerning was that I saw the names of those who did not suffer his level of persecution.
Thankfully, he made this year’s list as contained in President Tinubu’s June 12 national broadcast. It is also gratifying to note that Dr. Niran Malaolu, the former Editor of Diet Newspaper and late Ben Charles-Obi, the former Editor of Classique Magazine made the list, though posthumously. Three of them were among the journalists secretly tried and jailed ...