NPAN Mourns Ray Ekpu’s Wife

By Adesina Soyooye

The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria, NPAN, has expressed its shock over the death of Mrs Uyai Ekpu.

The late Mrs Ekpu was the wife of Mr Ray Ekpu, an accomplished Journalist, Columnist and co-founder of the defunct Newswatch Magazine.

In a condolence letter to Ekpu, personally signed by NPAN President, Kabiru Yusuf, the Association acknowledged Mrs Ekpu as “A quintessential management and training specialist and seasoned administrator.” Her passage, the Association noted, “has created a deep void in the nation’s socio-development landscape.”

The full text of the Condolence Letter dated April 25, 2024, reads:

“It is with great shock that we received the news yesterday of the death of our sister, friend and your better half, Mrs Uyai Ray Ekpu. She was aged 73.

“A quintessential management and training specialist and seasoned administrator, her passage has created a deep void in the nation’s socio-development landscape.

“Though she is no more, we are consoled by the enviable  legacies she left as a thorough professional, the value she held as a bridge builder and her exemplary disposition for community service.

“Mrs Uyai Ray Ekpu was a senior staff of the Centre for Management Development (CMD) and retired in 2011 as an Acting Director, Management Education and Training Department.

“On behalf of the Executive Council of our esteemed Association, we commiserate with you and your entire family.

“We pray that the Almighty God will console and uphold each and everyone of you.

“Once again, our condolences.”

Mrs Ekpu died at a Lagos Hospital on Wednesday, April 24 after a brief illness.