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| LATE DIMGBA IGWE |
Popular columnist and Vice
Chairman, Sun Newspapers, Pastor Dimgba Igwe, died yesterday. He was killed by
a hit-and-run driver.
He was aged 58 years.
Igwe was jogging in his Okota,
Lagos neighbourhood in the morning when he was knocked down by the unknown
driver, the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper, Mr. Femi
Adesina said in a statement last night.
Igwe was subsequently rushed to a
nearby private hospital, and later the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital
(LASUTH), Ikeja, for surgery.
He died in the process.
Chairman of Sun Newspapers, Dr.
Orji Uzor Kalu, described the death as “tragic, shocking, and a dark day in the
annals of journalism in Nigeria.”
He added: “Dimgba Igwe was too
much of a gentleman, fine brain and mind to die tragically like this.”
Before joining The Sun at its
inception in 2003, he had worked with his close friend and associate, Mr. Mike
Awoyinfa, at the rested Weekend Concord, a publication of the Concord Press.
At the Sun he first served as
Deputy Managing Director/Deputy Editor-in- Chief before becoming Vice Chairman.
He was Deputy General Overseer of
Evangel Pentecostal Church, Okota, Lagos and a fellow of the Nigerian Guild of
Editors (NGE).
He is survived by a wife and four
children.
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