About: Wale Aboderin

An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Gbadebowale Aboderin (1958 – 30 May 2018) was a Nigerian journalist, businessman and sports administrator, who was until his death the chairman of Punch Nigeria Limited, a publishing house founded by his father. Described by Vanguard as a pillar of journalism, he schooled at [[Government College, Ibadan] and [Clifton College]], before undergoing aviation training at Burnside-Ott Flying School. In sports, he was chairman, Lagos State Basketball Association and vice-president of Nigeria Basketball Supporters Club. Aboderin died after a heart surgery in Lagos. President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, Governor of Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode were among those that commiserated with his family.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Gbadebowale Aboderin (1958 – 30 May 2018) was a Nigerian journalist, businessman and sports administrator, who was until his death the chairman of Punch Nigeria Limited, a publishing house founded by his father. Described by Vanguard as a pillar of journalism, he schooled at [[Government College, Ibadan] and [Clifton College]], before undergoing aviation training at Burnside-Ott Flying School. In sports, he was chairman, Lagos State Basketball Association and vice-president of Nigeria Basketball Supporters Club. Aboderin died after a heart surgery in Lagos. President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, Governor of Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode were among those that commiserated with his family. In 1997, he established Nigeria's first private female basketball club, Dolphins. (en)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 58018348 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 2299 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1111326424 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Gbadebowale Aboderin (1958 – 30 May 2018) was a Nigerian journalist, businessman and sports administrator, who was until his death the chairman of Punch Nigeria Limited, a publishing house founded by his father. Described by Vanguard as a pillar of journalism, he schooled at [[Government College, Ibadan] and [Clifton College]], before undergoing aviation training at Burnside-Ott Flying School. In sports, he was chairman, Lagos State Basketball Association and vice-president of Nigeria Basketball Supporters Club. Aboderin died after a heart surgery in Lagos. President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, Governor of Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode were among those that commiserated with his family. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Wale Aboderin (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:predecessor of
is dbo:publisher of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:predecessor of
is dbp:publisher of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License