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Former Nigerian athlete and administrator, Brown Ebewele, is dead

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Brown Ebewele

Maverick former athlete and later administrator, Brown Ebewele, popularly known as Juju Man is dead.

He reportedly passed on at an undisclosed hospital in Warri, on the last day of 2021.

The former Olympian led Team Edo to the 20th National Sports Festival in Benin City.

He was a former national champion and a pioneer decathlete in 1978, while competing as an athlete for the then Bendel State.

He rose to become a Director and ultimately a Commissioner of Sports in Edo State during the administration of former Governor Lucky Igbinedion.

As Director of Sports, Ebewele piloted Team Edo to the top of the medals table, when the state hosted the 2002 edition of the Sports Festival.

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Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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