JUST IN: Popular Sports Journalist, Prince Anthony Obaseki Is Dead

Veteran sports journalist and former Media Officer of El-Kanemi Warriors, Prince Anthony Obaseki, is dead.

Obaseki reportedly died on Sunday morning at an undisclosed hospital in Udu, Delta State.

It was gathered that the late journalist had been down with stroke for some months before his transition.

Delta State chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Micheal Ikeogwu, alongside some members of the union had earlier paid him a visit upon his recuperation.

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He was said to be have been discharged from a treatment home in Okwagbe in Ughelli South LGA of the state where he was being treated for stroke before his death.

The late Obaseki had during the visit of the Delta NUJ pleaded with the governors of Edo and Delta to come to his rescue.

The former assistant sports editor with National Daily Newspapers paternally hailed from the Obaseki family of Benin Kingdom in Edo and maternally Urhobo from Ovwian in Udu LGA of Delta.

Delta NUJ Council chairman, Ikeogwu, confirmed the sad incidentt on Sunday morning.

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