The Nigeria camp at the 29th Africa Cup of Nations in Johannesburg,
South Africa was badly jolted on Saturday morning when news filtered
in that ace broadcast journalist Joseph Ighile had died in Lagos.
Ighile, a member of the NFF Media and Publicity Committee, was in
South Africa for the group stage campaign of the Super Eagles.
He was
presenting his sports programme on CHANNELS television on Friday
evening when he reportedly slumped and died before anxious colleagues
could get him to hospital.
NFF President Aminu Maigari was taken aback when the sad news was
broken to him
. “Oh, my God! What happened to him? How did it happen?
“Joe (Ighile) interviewed me and I saw him doing his work quietly but
diligently during the group stage in Nelspruit.
A good man has gone.
May his gentle soul rest in peace.”
Chairman of the NFF Media and Publicity Committee, Chief Emeka Inyama
was distraught. “What happened to Joseph? I have never heard of this
kind of thing.
“Joe was your idea of a hardworking, enterprising and yet, unobtrusive
journalist. He did his job conscientiously and with grace and honour.
“Everyone is shocked.
This is sad, very sad. As a member of the Media
and Publicity Committee, he was very supportive and very positive.”
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