MKO Abiola’s wife, Doyin dies at 82
Late Mrs. Doing Abiola and Late MKO Abiola
Ny Reporyer
Dr. Doyin Abiola, a veteran journalist and former Managing Director of defunct Concord Newspapers and Wife Moshood Kolawole Abiola, winner of the annulled June 12, 1993, presidential election is dead.
Mrs. Abiola, died at the age of 82 years. She was the first female journalist to edit a Nigerian national daily newspaper. She reportedly died from cardiac arrest on August 5, at about 9pm.
The former editor graduated from the university of Ibadan with a degree in English and Drama in 1969 and thereafter worked with the Daily Sketch, a newspaper owned by the defunct Western Region government in Ibadan, Oyo State.
She ran a feature column called ‘Tiro,’ which focused on public interest and gender matters. She left Daily Sketch newspaper in 1970, and traveled to the United States for a post graduate degree in Journalism.
On her return, she joined Daily Times as a Features Writer and later became the Group Features Editor. And in 1979, she returned to New York University where she obtained a PhD in communications and political science.
She returned to Daily Times and was deployed to the editorial board where she worked with other experienced editors like Stanley Macebuh, Dele Giwa (both now deceased) and Ms. Amma Ogan.
Her wealth of experience paved way for her to be invited to be the pioneer daily editor of the newly formed National Concord newspaper, owned by late MKO Abiola.
