Peter "Pan" Enahoro Dies in London

Veteran Nigerian journalist, Peter Enahoro, is dead. Family sources say he passed on in London on Monday at 88.

Also known as Peter Pan, Enahoro was a columnist who featured mainly in the New African magazine for several years, an author and businessman. 

He began his media journey with the Federal Ministry of Information in 1954 as an Assistant Publicity Officer but later joined the Daily Times as a sub-editor a year later. Subsequently, he moved over to Rediffusion Services in ibadan in 1957 where he functioned as an Assistant District Manager.

He would return to the Daily Times fold at 23 in 1958 to become the Editor of the Sunday Times and became Features Editor of the Daily Times same year.

He became the Editor four years later before taking up the position of Group Editorial Adviser in 1965, after which he became Editor-in-Chief the following year.

Enahoro went into a 13 year self exile in the late 1960s during which he acted as a Contributing Editor, Radio Deutsche Welle, Cologne, Germany, from 1966 to 1976, and Africa Editor of National Zeitung, Basel, Switzerland, before assuming the Editorial Director role in the New African magazine in London in 1978.