Leadership (Abuja)
George Okojie
19 August 2008
Suspected armed robbers on Sunday night shot dead a member of the Editorial Board of ThisDay newspapers, Mr Abayomi Ogundeji, in Lagos.
The Lagos State Police Command's spokesman, Mr Frank Mba, confirmed this to newsmen yesterday in Lagos.
He said that Ogundeji was attacked by the suspected hoodlums in Dopemu, Lagos, at about 11 p.m.
Mba said that investigations into the incident had commenced.
Police suspected that the robbers shot and killed Ogundeji after he refused to come down from his car as they demanded.
Ogundeji worked as an editor with the defunct Comet newspaper, as well as Punch, before moving to ThisDay.
He was a Special Adviser to Chief Femi Pedro during his governorship campaign in Lagos State on the platform of the Labour Party in 2007.
Ogundeji was a veteran journalist and former media aide to the former Lagos state deputy governor, Otunba Femi Pedro, and governorship aspirant for Labour Party in Lagos State.
He attended the University of Ibadan where he bagged a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Thereafter he took up a job with The African Guardian magazine.
He brought his mastery of the arts to bear on the Arts and Life column of the magazine, making it a must read for readers at that time.
As a mobile newsman whose services were readily sought by various publishers, he immediately secured a job with the Week magazine after the proscription.
He, however, returned to the African Guardian after it was de-proscribed.
Ogundeji also worked with the Punch as Features Editor after he was sacked from The Guardian because of his union activities as chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ).
Upon his return from the Commonwealth Fellowship in UK, he was employed by the Comet newspapers to edit the Comet on Sunday until the change of ownership.
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