OLUWOLE AWOLOWO, TRIBUNE PUBLISHER IS DEAD AT 72

The Publisher/Vice-Chairman of African Newspapers of Nigeria Plc (ANN), publishers of the Tribune Newspapers, Chief Oluwole Awolowo, and scion of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo family, died Wednesday in the intensive care unit of Ward 3, South Wing of Wellington Hospital in St. John’s Wood, London at about 8.30 pm. He was aged 70 years. According to his first daughter, Yejide, who was by his bedside when he passed on, the body of the late publisher would be brought back to the country for burial next week.