Anthony Iwuoma
The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ogun State chapter, has lost its chairman, Comrade Soji Amosu.
He was aged 53 years.
Amosu, who was elected as Chairman in 2019, died at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta on Sunday.
Until his death the late Amosu was a Deputy Director at the National Orientation Agency, NOA, in the state.
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Secretary of the council, Ayokunle Ewuoso, on Sunday, in a statement announced that a seven-day mourning has been declared in honour of the chairman.
According to the statement: “It is with heavy hearts, but total submission to the will of God that we announce the transition unto the glory of the chairman, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ogun State Council, Comrade Olusoji Samson Amosu which occurred on Sunday the 14th of November, 2021 after a brief illness.
“His death is shocking and devastating. It is a collective grief to the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in general and Ogun State Council in particular.
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“We pray that God, in His infinite mercies, grants all members of the union and his immediate family members the fortitude to bear this irreparable loss. Burial arrangements will be announced later.
“Meanwhile, consequent upon this sad development, the Union is declaring a 7-day mourning, while condolence register will be opened, on Monday, at the Council’s Secretariat, Iwe-Iroyin, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta.”
Amosu, who was a two-term secretary of the Ogun NUJ council, was a graduate of Mass Communication from Ogun State Polytechnic now Moshood Abiola Polytechnic. He is survived by wife, children and an aged father among other relations.