6th September, 2014
Eromosele Ebhomele
One of Nigeria’s prominent journalists and Vice Chairman of The Sun Newspapers, Mr. Dimgba Igwe, is dead.
Igwe died at 58 on Saturday after he was knocked down by a hit-and-run driver while he was performing an early morning exercise around his house located around Okota, Lagos State, western Nigeria.
He sustained serious injury, according to a statement on the website of the newspaper organisation, which said he was jogging when the car hit him.
He was rushed a private hospital where he underwent surgery but died few minutes after the surgery was done.
According to the statement, Orji Uzor Kalu, chairman of the Sun Publishing Limited described the incident as “the darkest day in the history of the organisation.”
Dimgba Igwe, together with his bosom friend, Mike Awoyinfa, managed the media organisation from inception and he grew to the position of Vice Chairman before his death.