The death of Daily Trust correspondent, Mr Ronald Mutum, who died on Friday night after a battle with cancer, has thrown Nigerian journalists into mourning.
At Daily Trust, he worked hard to make his presence felt in the beats assigned to him.
He covered Defence, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission and other beats specially reserved for ‘restless’ journalists.
Mutum who arrived in the country from Germany after a successful surgery a few months ago put up a post on his health condition on March 30, where he alerted his friends of the new medical challenge.
“They are calling it pulmonary metastasis! It’s a new battlefront… Already I’m on a new line of Chemotherapy! God is in control,” he had said.
The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Abuja chapter, Mr Emmanuel Ogbeche, described his death as a painful one though adding that the journalist “needed the rest.”
Mutum took on stories that scare other reporters and was saddled with the onerous task of covering “troublesome story mills” like Defence, EFCC, ICPC