SAD: Veteran sports journalist, Akinloye Oyebanji, dies at 62

Nigerian veteran sports journalist and retired Director of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Akinloye Oyebanji, has died at the age of 62.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr. Oyebanji passed on at the National Hospital, Abuja, on Saturday morning from coronary heart disease.

Oyebanji had been sick for nearly four months now and his household had spent hundreds of thousands of naira to save his life barring any improvement.

Speaking to News Agency of Nigeria, a family source said he had the misfortune of losing his kidneys which were replaced efficaciously via a transplant in India.

“But one of the facet outcomes of kidney transplant is coronary heart failure, which he had experienced on two activities and survived,” a family member said.

Family members, friends, and expert colleagues recently appealed to governments, public-spirited individuals and corporate corporations to help him with $25,000 for treatment abroad.

Oyebanji served the NTA for 35 years in distinctive capacities, together with being a sports activities broadcaster, and later as customary manager (sports).

He retired as managing director of NTA Properties at the authority’s headquarters in Abuja.

Oyebanji worked with legendary sports activities journalist, Walter Oyatogun, who died at the age of 78 in 2014.

Oyebanji, who hailed from Kwara, is survived with the aid of four kids and a wife.