One of Nigeria’s biggest and leading automobiles merchants, Chief Willy Anumudu, has passed away at 68.

The Chairman of GLOBE MOTORS, Victoria Island, reportedly died after battling an undisclosed ailment.

He was said to have been tested for COVID-19 but result was negative.

He was to be air-lifted to Germany this morning but died about 4am.

According to associates and contemporaries, Willy was an ebullient and unassuming character, he was everybody’s friend and a prominent Lagos socialite.

As at the time of his death, he was happily married to his effervescent wife, NKIRU, who sadly was in London when the tragedy occurred in Lagos early this morning. He is survived by four children, UZOMA, EYINNA, ZINNA and ZIKKY…