Chief Osayuki Obaseki is dead, Igbere TV reports. He died in the early hours of today, Sunday, August 18.

Igbere TV reports that Obaseki is the first Chairman of the Nigeria Professional Football League, NPFL.

He was also the second Vice-Chairman of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) from 2007 to 2009.

News of his death was announced on the official handle of the Edo State chapter of the Sports​ Writers’ Association of Nigeria, SWAN.

Igbere TV, however, gathered that the late administrator had been suffering from undisclosed ailment for a long while.

President of Edo SWAN has mourned the demise of the refined administrator, while condoling the bereaved family.