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Roseline Oganah, mother of THEWILL publisher, is dead at 83

The octogenarian passed on at her Delta residence on Monday.

• February 22, 2023
Roseline Oganah
Roseline Oganah [Photo Credit : THEWILL]

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.

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