A former General Manager of Bendel Newspapers Company Limited (BNCL), publishers of the Observer titles, Mr Monday Aigbe is dead.

He passed on after a brief illness at the age of 65 years.

Mr Aigbe, a former lecturer in the Mass Communication Department, Delta State University, Abraka, as a staff Bendel BNCL, rose through the ranks from a Reporter to the position of Editor-in-Chief of The Nigerian Observer newspapers where he retired as a General Manager, after a successful journalism career with the state owned newspaper.

He is survived by his wife, children, relations, friends and well wishers.