Kelvin Ugwu, Multi-talented FRCN’s Ace Broadcaster, Actor, Is Dead

By Charles Igbo

Mr Kelvin Ugwu, an accomplished veteran Broadcaster, multi-talented, is dead.

Ugwu, also, an accomplished Actor, Master of Ceremony, recently retired on attaining the mandatory retirement of 60 years from the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, where, for a long time, he read the network news and hosted  the popular Police Diary.

Sadly, he was not alive to enjoy his retirement with his family or pursue his many other passions.

Ugwu’s sudden death was announced by his devastated colleague, Solomon  Lorpev, on his Facebook page.

Lorpev wrote:

“I can’t explain this coz I don’t understand it. The only thing that seems to make sense now is what Yahaya Umar said to me once while I was in the studio  preparing for the news at 4. He said ‘when you sit behind the mic and you take your time check on the hour either for the news or a program presentation and you observe the seconds hand on the clock, tirelessly tick away, just know that it is the irreversible withdrawal being made from your life’s bank.”  The transaction is life, the currency is time.

Unfortunately, you don’t even have the luxury of checking your balance. No wonder the Bible says “teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”

“Big brother Kelvin Ugwu, the golden voice on Radio, if anyone told me your time was up, I would have drawn daggers, but at last, my Pastor, my artist, my brother, my uncle, my colleague, my boss, my friend.

“Sleep well big brother. You were indeed a BIG BROTHER”

Ugwu was aged 60 years at death.