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Former Lagos Sports Commissioner,  Ademola Adeniji-Adele is dead

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Former Lagos Sports Commissioner,  Ademola Adeniji-Adele is dead

Former Lagos Sports Commissioner,  Ademola Adeniji-Adele is dead
May 05
08:35 2016

A former Lagos State Sports Commissioner and Chairman Lagos island Local government, Ademola Adeniji-Adele, has died, family sources informed us early Today.

Mr. Adeniji-Adele passed away in India where he had gone for a medical check-up after developing some complications, sources said. He was 60.

An official of Lagos State government confirmed the development and said the state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, was preparing to announce it to the people of the state.

Mr. Adeniji-Adele served as commissioner between 2007 and 2011 during the first tenure of former Governor Tunde Fashola.

A pro-democracy campaigner, Mr. Adeniji-Adele’s struggle during the military regime of late dictator, Sani Abacha, saw Mr. Adeniji-Adele’s incarceration for months.

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