BREAKING: Former Abia State Commissioner and Hallmark Publisher, Prince Emeka Obasi, dies at 58
Prince Emeka Obasi, Publisher of Hallmark Newspaper and the brain behind the acclaimed the Zik Prize in Leadership Award, has been reported dead.
A breaking news by THE WITNESS late this Wednesday morning, March 16, 2022, said that the veteran journalist and public relations expert died earlier in the after a protracted illness.
Family members and friends contacted by News Express confirmed the news, with one of them saying: “He had been off and on and died over-night.”
Obasi, Publisher of the now rested daily, National Mirror, which he later sold to Jimoh Ibrahim in what was an industry first, was aged 58.
A one-time Commissioner for Information in Abia State, he bravely battled terminal sickness for some eight years.
A man of ideas, Prince Emeka Obasi worked as a journalist with the defunct Newswatch Group before going into public relations. He was the Founder and Executive Secretary of Public Policy Research and Analysis Centre (PPRAC), organisers of the Zik Prize in Leadership Award.
His foray into newspaper publishing started in 1999 when he founded HALLMARK, a weekly newspaper that transformed into National Mirror. He started Business Hallmark after selling National Mirror and later transformed it into a general interest newspaper.
Married with children, Prince Emeka Obasi hailed from Umuahia, Abia State.
