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Mike Akpan, editor-in-chief, Realnews magazine and former editor of Newswatch magazine, is to be buried on Tuesday, November 4, in his hometown in Abak, Akwa Ibom State
MIKE Akpan, pioneer editor-in-chief of Realnews, an online investigative general interest weekly magazine published in Lagos, Nigeria, is to be buried in his hometown on Tuesday, November 4.
A text message on the funeral arrangement sent to Realnews magazine by Mfon Mike Akpan, the first son of the deceased, said there will be a Vigil Mass at St. John Pro-cathedral Abak by 6.00pm, on Monday November 3. Also, a Requiem Mass for the deceased will hold at the St. John Pro-Cathedral, Abak Parish, Abak Local government Area, Akwa Ibom State, by 10am prompt. He will be interred immediately after the Mass service at his compound in Edem Anwa, Afaha Obong-Abak.
Akpan, who is also a fellow of the Nigeria Guild of Editors, NGE, was on admission in Uyo Teaching Hospital in Akwa Ibom State, for a few days before he died on September 30.
He worked for more than 40 years as a journalist and brought his years of experience to pen a book entitled: Godswill Akpabio: Champion of Free Education in Akwa Ibom and edited Issues in Security Awareness written by Ebongakasi Ekpe-Juda He became a contributing editor of Newswatch. He joined the Newswatch team in 1990 as an assistant editor and moved up the ranks to become editor of the magazine in 1997. In 2001, he left Newswatch to co-found Green Grass Heritage, a non-governmental organisation on environment. He was editor-in-chief of Green Heritage, a magazine published by the NGO. He, however, returned to Newswatch in 2005 as editorial consultant.
Born on September 29, 1946, at Edem Anwa, Afaha Obong, in Abak Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Akpan studied Mass Communication in the University of Lagos. Akoka, Lagos, where he graduated in 1978 as the best student of the Department of Mass Communications and subsequently became the winner of the Daily Times of Nigeria Scholastic Excellence Award. He also won the pro-chancellor’s prize as the best all-round graduating student in the faculty of social sciences. Before joining Newswatch, Akpan, at various times, worked with the Daily Times, The Nigerian Observer, and the Nigerian Chronicle newspapers. He is survived by Maria Mike, his widow and four children, namely: Mfon, Ekemini, Uduakabasi and Idongesit.
Maureen Chigbo
Publisher/Editor
Realnews Magazine
— Nov. 10, 2014 @ 01:00 GMT
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