Prince Emeka Obasi, Publisher of Hallmark Newspaper and the brain behind the acclaimed Zik Prize in Leadership Award, has passed on at the age at 58.
Family sources revealed that the late publisher passed on Wednesday morning, March 16, 2022, said that the veteran journalist and public relations expert died 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 overnight.”
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 the Public Policy Research and Analysis Centre (PPRAC), organizer of the Zik Prize in Leadership Award.
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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.
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Married with children, Prince Emeka Obasi hailed from Umuahia, Abia State.
