Brown Ebewele, a former Nigerian athlete and sports administrator, is dead.
Daily Report Nigeria gathered that Ebewele, popularly referred to as Juju man’, died in a hospital after a brief illness on Friday in Warri.
The former Olympian led Team Edo to the 20th National Sports Festival.
He is also a former national champion and introduced decathlon into the nation’s athletics in 1978, while competing as an athlete for the then Bendel State.
He is also known to be reputed athletics coach, and rose to become a Director and ultimately a Commissioner of Sports in Edo State during the administration of former Governor Lucky Igbinedion.
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