Alexander Ibru, Publisher of the Guardian dies!!

Source can authoritatively report the passing on of Alexander Uruemu Ibru, Chairman and Publisher of THE GUARDIAN. He died at about 2.30pm today, November 20.Alexander Uruemu Ibru died at age 66 while in the course of an illness.

After working briefly in the family business under the tutelage of his older brother and patriarch, Micheal C.O. Ibru, Alex Ibru launched out on his own and soon became one of the most successful young businessmen in the country.He founded The Guardian in 1983 with a mission to make it one of the five best English language newspapers in the world. It soon established itself and has since remained the flagship of the Nigerian press