Fresh facts have begun emerging on the shocking death of Channels Television’s Chukwuma Onuekwusi.
Aged 55, the State House correspondent of Channels Television, owned by John Momoh, died today, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Abuja.
YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine exclusively gathered that he died of complications arising from kidney failure.
He was initially admitted to the State House Medical Centre, and from there Zenith Medical Centre, on the orders of Momoh, where he eventually died. ‘Ah! John Momoh really tried for him’, said our source. ‘In fact, he kept telling all those that visited him in the hospital to thank and pray for John Momoh…’
Onuekwusi, who joined Channels Television in 1998, was in coma for days before finally succumbing to death. He began his journalism career with Imo Broadcasting Corporation, and from there he joined Everest Nnaji’s Electrostatic, then in Maryland, Lagos before crossing over to Channels Television where fame and other things smiled on him.
A 2001 Nigeria Media Merit Awards nominee, he left behind a wife, a daughter and two or three sons, according to one insider.
His burial plans were yet to be announced as at the time of writing this. Tributes and condolence messages, meanwhile, have continued to pour in for him.