Roseline Oganah, the mother of newspaper publisher Austyn Ogannah, has passed on, a family statement said on Wednesday.

Mrs Oganah passed on at the family’s residence in Agbara, Onicha-Ugbo, Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta, on February 20. She was 83.

Mrs Oganah (nee Uzomah) was a senior civil service official in Delta for decades. A family statement said burial arrangements would be announced later. 

Those who survived her include: Uche Maidoh, Tony Oganah, Beatrice Oganah-Ikunjeyo, Pamela Irabor, Alfred Oganah and Austyn Ogannah, who publishes the frontline media outlets THEWILL Newspaper and Downtown Magazine.