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Last Updated: 2006-04-10 09:36:11
By Seinde Ikuesan (Contributing Editor) Email to a friend  |  Printable version

Sports Writer, Fred Awgu Killed, another hospitali

It was a black Sunday for the pool of Sports Journalists covering the 15th National Sports Festival tagged, ‘Gateway Games 2006’ as two of its colleagues were hacked down in front of the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Kuto, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

The two journalist Fred Agwu a sports journalist with over ten years experience who later gave up the ghost at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State and photo journalist with Lagos based Pan Africa Magazine Williams Akpan on is now on the emergency ward of the FMC were by the road side waiting to board a taxi to their aboard at the Media Village provided by the State government to cushion the effect of inadequate accommodation in the ancient town when they were both over-ran by a Toyota pick-up van with registration number OYO-AA838AYT.

The death of the late Agwu Sunday is being grieved by the hood of sports journalist led by its national president, Olu Amadasun who visited the morgue Monday to get first hand information on the unfortunate tragedy. He, however, urged the medical team at the FMC to expedite action on Akpan who is now responding to treatment all necessary attention so that he can leave the hospital in good time.

 

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