MARAN President, Ify Obi, is dead
Another thick pall of gloom cast over maritime journalism and the
entire maritime industry with the passage of the President of Maritime
Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN), Mrs. Ifeyinwa Obi, early
Monday.
The third shocking death within the maritime journalists? fold in
less than two months, Obi, who was the first female president of the
oldest maritime journalists? union, MARAN, and a correspondent with
Vanguard Newspapers, was said to have died in her residence from an
undisclosed illness.
She was a strong advocate of a sanitised maritime journalism sphere,
ever seeking to purge the field of marketers and advert agents, among
other all-comers who often throng the industry as journalists. She was a
mother of four children - The Authority
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