Eddie Aderinokun, former vice-chairman, Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), is dead.
Aderinokun, who was a journalist, poet, and sports administrator, was said to have died on January 3 at the age of 80 after a brief illness.
The late Aderinokun worked for the Daily Express Newspaper in the 1960s and later became its editor.
He also served as the president of the Nigerian Volleyball Association in 1994.
The deceased is among those who paved the way for pop music in Nigeria.
The late Aderinokun, in the late sixties, founded The Clusters, a pop group in Lagos, which featured talents such as Berkeley Jones (guitarist), Tony Amadi, Linus Okechi and Jibade Thomas.
