Nigeria, Sept. 3 -- Chioma Onuegbu, the Akwa Ibom State correspondent of Vanguard Newspaper, is dead.

The Correspondents' Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Akwa Ibom State Council, announced her passing in a statement on Tuesday.

"With pains in our hearts but total submission to the will of the Almighty God and faith in the Resurrection, the Correspondents' Chapel of the NUJ in Akwa Ibom announced the home call of their colleague, Ms Onuegbu," said Udeme Utip, the secretary of the chapel.

However, the statement did not mention when and how she died

Ms Onuegbu, who practised journalism for several years in the state, serving as a correspondent for the Vanguard newspaper, hailed from Akwuli Okwu in Ikeduru Local Governme...