JUST IN: Zik Prize Award Organizer, Emeka Obasi, is dead
By Trek Africa Newspaper
late Prince Emeka Obasi
Prince Emeka Obasi, publisher of Hallmark Newspaper, a business, policy and finance daily newspaper, is dead, this medium reports.
This medium gathered that Obasi, a veteran journalist and public relations expert, died on Wednesday March 16, 2022, after a protracted illness.
He was aged 58.
The Abia State born award winning journalist and former Commissioner for Information, Abia State, had been battling a health challenge for the past eight years.
He is the founder and executive secretary of Public Policy Research and Analysis Centre (PPRAC), organisers of the Zik Prize in Leadership Award.
Obasi went into public relations after a stint as a journalist before settling for publishing Hallmark Newspaper in 1999.
