The Publisher/ Vice Chairman of the African Newspapers of Nigeria (ANN) Plc, Publishers of the Tribune titles, Chief Oluwole Awolowo is dead.
Chief Awolowo died at 7.40 p.m. Nigerian time, on Wednesday, at Wellington Hospital, St Johnswood, London at the age of 70, following complications arising from a car crash he was involved in on September 30, 2006.
Chief Awolowo had been in and out of hospital, home and abroad, since he was involved in the ghastly accident seven years ago on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.