Business mogul and Publisher of the defunct Third Eye newspapers, Chief Akanni Aluko  is dead.

The philanthropist  according to family source  died on Friday morning.

His wife, Mrs Kofoworola Aluko, broke the news to one of her husband’s closest friends, Sir Folu Olamiti.

She said Aluko died on Friday morning, July 1, at the University College Hospital Ibadan (UCH) during a protracted illness.

He would have been 79  years old on July 22.