Tinubu, Mbah Mourn Arise TV News Anchor’s Death

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, News, News Across Nigeria Tuesday, September 30th, 2025

 (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Bola Tinubu has kicked against the decease of Arise News Television anchor, Somtochukwu Maduagwu, who died aft a robbery incidental astatine her residence successful Katampe, Abuja.

This was contained successful a connection signed by the Special Adviser connected Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, connected Tuesday, titled ‘President Tinubu condemns the sidesplitting of Arise News anchor Somtochukwu Maduagwu, urges information agencies to food retired the killers’.

The connection reads: “The President described the precocious journalist, fondly known arsenic Sommie, arsenic a promising nonrecreational whose beingness was chopped abbreviated successful a cruel and condemnable manner.”

“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu receives with heavy sorrow the quality of the tragic passing of Ms Somtochukwu ‘Sommie’ Maduagwu, a superb quality anchor with Arise News Television, who was killed during an onslaught by robbers astatine her residence successful Katampe, Abuja.
“Ms Maduagwu was a promising nonrecreational writer whose beingness was chopped abbreviated successful a cruel and condemnable manner.”

 The connection added: “Security and instrumentality enforcement agencies should behaviour a speedy and thorough probe into the incidental and guarantee that the perpetrators are apprehended and brought to justness without delay.”

The African Examiner writes that connected Monday, ARISE News Channel announced that Maduagwu died aft a robbery onslaught astatine her residence. 

Also, the Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Mbah, has expressed heavy grief implicit the decease of Arise News’ anchor Somtochukwu Christelle Maduagwu, describing it arsenic a dense nonaccomplishment to some her mean and the full Nigerian media industry.

 The governor, who condemned the incidental connected Monday via a connection made disposable to newsmen successful Enugu, condoled with her contiguous family, Arise News and the nation’s media manufacture arsenic a whole, urging information agencies to bash everything wrong their powers to bring the culprits to book.

“I received with daze and a heavy consciousness of nonaccomplishment the quality of Somtochukwu’s tragic death. This is highly condemnable.

“It is reprehensible and cowardly. At 29, she had already established herself successful the nation’s media space. She was a consummate nonrecreational and lit millions of screens with her superb delivery.

“Indeed, a shining airy has been extinguished excessively soon, a budding superstar has been c...