The Nigeria Football Federation has expressed tremendous shock at the death of veteran sports journalist and vice president (south south) of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Mr. Eddie Bekom.
Bekom, who alongside members of his family were involved in a ghastly gas explosion in their home on 1st July 2017, gave up the battle for life at the Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki on Sunday. His wife and one of his three children had earlier lost the battle.