The former Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Dame Felicia Oluwaremilekun Oyo, has died in the United Kingdom, where she was receiving treatment for a cancer related ailment, her husband, Vincent Oyo, announced in a statement.The former media adviser to former president Olusegun Obasanjo, according to her husband, had looked forward to her 62nd birthday on October 12 with her family before death struck.
Dame Oyo was a seasoned journalist who began her journalism career in 1973 in the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) now known as the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN).
She later joined the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) as a Desk Editor in 1981, and left in 1985 as a Principal Editor, the first woman to attain such a high position in the agency.
Thereafter, she joined the Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS) as the Nigerian Bureau Chief and later, became the international news agency’s West African Bureau Chief.
Having first served as Secretary of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Dame Oyo was elected president of the Guild for two consecutive tenures from 1999 to 2003. She was the first woman to be so honoured. She was Fellow of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), and the Nigerian Institute of Public Administrators.
She is survived by her husband, Vincent, children, grand-children and siblings – Sunday Oke and Yomi Oke.
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