The management of Frontiers Alliance Communications Limited, publishers of Frontiers Newspapers Online, has announced the death of its Executive Editor, Daniel Ovwigho Idonor.
Idonor, popularly called “Chair” by his colleagues in the media, passed away on Monday afternoon at the Nigerian Air Force Hospital, Abuja after a protracted illness.
He was aged 45.
A devoted Christian, who was a Deacon with the Living Faith Ministry, Abuja, Idonor was also a one time Chairman of the State House Press Corps, Abuja.
The late Idonor started his journalism career at the Nigerian Television Authority, Bauchi and at different times worked for Champion and Vanguard newspapers before he ventured into online publishing.
Idonor served meritoriously as the Chairman of the State House Press Corps before he entered the mainstream nation’s politics under the banner of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, where he aspired to represent his senatorial district in 2013 before he was advised to step down by the party’s hierarchy.
He was a top contender for the House of Representatives primary election in his Ughelli-Udu Federal Constituency in Delta State on the platform of the PDP before he withdrew from the race early December 2014.
He would be greatly missed by his family, colleagues, the Urhobo nation and numerous students who had benefited immensely from his scholarship programme, a statement by the management of Frontiers News said.
Comrade Idonor is survived by a wife and four children.
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