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Ex-MD of Concord Newspapers And Wife of Late MKO Abiola, Doyin Abiola Dies At 82

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August 6, 2025
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Ex-MD of Concord Newspapers And Wife of Late MKO Abiola, Doyin Abiola Dies At 82
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By Moji Danisa

Eminent journalist, Dr. Doyin Abiola, wife of Concord Publisher and winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Dr. Doyin Abiola, is dead.

Sources said she died at exactly 9.15 pm of Tuesday, August 5, 2025 after illness.

The former Managing Director and publisher of National Concord was the first Nigerian woman to be an editor of a Nigerian daily newspaper.

Like other numerous wives of the deceased politician, she endured the storm and stress triggered by the criminal annulment of the historic poll and the tribulations that followed at the home front and in the Concord.

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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.

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 Ph.D 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.

It was, however, to be a short stay as the newly formed National Concord newspaper invited her to be its pioneer daily editor.

She then moved to be an editor of National Concord.

She was promoted to be the managing director/editor-in-chief in 1986.
She became the first Nigerian woman to become the editor in chief of a daily newspaper in Nigeria.

She married in 1981.

Her career at National Concord Newspaper spanned three decades. She also served in various capacities in the media industry in the country.

She was the Chairperson of the Awards Nominating panel at the first Nigerian Media Merit Award to be hosted in the country, and also a member of Advisory Council, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, Ogun State University.

She was a recipient of Diamond Awards for Media Excellence (DAME) for her lifelong devotion to advancing the frontiers of knowledge and strengthening the media as a pillar of democracy.

The Trustees of DAME unanimously approved her selection as a recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th DAME Ceremony.

She was the second woman to receive a DAME Lifetime Achievement Award after Mrs. Omobola Onajide) and was later granted Eisenhower Fellowship in 1986.
(vitalnewsngr.com)

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