The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Premium Eagle Media Limited, publishers of Eagle Online, Mr Dotun Oladipo, has died at the age of 56.
Oladipo, a former president of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), reportedly took ill in his office on Tuesday and died hours later at the hospital.
Sources said he had driven himself to the hospital where he eventually passed on.
Incumbent GOCOP president, Danlami Nmodu, announced Oladipo’s death on the guild’s WhatsApp platform late on Tuesday.
“It has just been confirmed that Emeritus President, Mr Dotun Oladipo, died today. May his soul rest in peace. Amen,” he wrote.
The deceased, who had a distinguished journalism career spanning nearly three decades, was a former politics editor at PUNCH Newspapers.
He also worked with Nigerian Tribune, Nigerian Compass, and The Sun before founding the Eagle Online.
