Veteran journalist, Charles Amedu Igoh has passed on at 83.
His passage was announced by his son John who disclosed that the former spokesman to late President Shehu Shagari died two days before Christmas after a brief illness.
Charles Amedu Igoh was a journalist, media practitioner, and administrator who served as the Chief Press Secretary to Nigeria’s 2nd Republic president, late Alhaji Shehu Shagari from 1979-1983.
He started his journalism career in the early 70s where he was a Sports Editor and Assistant Editor at the Daily Times newspapers.
He also worked with the Nigerian Breweries in the Public Relations department. He had a stint at the National Sports Commission in the mid-70s before being appointed as the Public Relations Manager of Volkswagen Nigeria.
He served as a Press Officer to the Shehu Shagari Presidential Campaign Council in the run-up to the 1979 general elections. He was eventually appointed by the late Shehu Shagari as his Chief Press Secretary upon his victory at the polls.
He served in that capacity in the first term of that administration. and then farming. He was later appointed to the Board of Directors of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria in 1990.
He became a deacon in his church, The Redeemed Evangelical Mission where he served the Lord.
He is survived by children, grandchildren, younger siblings, nieces, and nephews. He will be greatly missed by all. Burial arrangements will be announced in due course.
