The Nigerian Press Council has expressed deep sorrow over the passing of another media icon and veteran editor, Mr. Lewis Obi.
In a statement in Abuja by the Council’s Director of Research and Documentation, Mr. Dan Ede, the Executive Secretary of the Council, Dr. Dili Ezughah, says “Nigerian journalism has lost one of its finest and most decorated practitioners.”
Dr. Ezughah said Mr. Obi was not just a consummate professional and wordsmith, he was also a media trainer and mentor.
“Intelligent, knowledgeable, courageous, refined and diplomatic, Mr.Lewis Obi spoke the truth to power back in the days of military dictatorship, in a trenchant language couched in elegant prose”, Dr. Ezughah said.
Mr. Obi, who started his journalism career in the Daily Times, rose to become the founding Editor, Editor -in- Chief and Managing Director of the defunct African Concord magazine.
The Executive Secretary lamented that the vacuum created by his demise would take time to be filled.
While praying for eternal repose of the soul of the veteran journalist, Dr. Ezughah condoled with his immediate family, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, the Nigerian Guild of Editors and the country’s media industry at large.
