By Patrick Abang, National Accord Newspaper
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The remains of the late Cross River State Chairman of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, SWAN, Comrade Albert Archibong Andinam (JP) has been laid to rest in Calabar, the State capital.
The late sports enthusiast suffered from an ailment while receiving treatment at the Navy Hospital, Calabar, and later the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital where he succumbed to the cold hands of death on May 8th, 2022.
His body on Friday was laid in State at the Ernest Etim Bassey Press Center where journalists paid their last respects to their professional colleague.
Speaking at a funeral service in his honor, the Associate Minister in charge of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, Hope Waddell Parish, Calabar, Very Rev. John Abah Vincent, described death as a necessary end that will come to any man.
According to the Clergyman, “This is the reality of life. Life is a journey, we are all pilgrims and tenants in this world.”
He advised those living to go closer to their creator as no one knows when death will come knocking.
Until his death, Albert Archibong Andinam was the State Chairman of SWAN, former Secretary of the Nigerian Union of Journalists Cross River State Council, and Deputy Sports Editor of the Nigerian Chronicle.
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