The Inquirer Newspaper announces the reposeful passing of its Managing Editor, Philip Nemene Wesseh in his 64th year.
He died Wednesday, September 14, at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Monrovia following a period of illness.
He was the paper’s second managing editor since 1995 following the departure of the paper’s founding Managing Editor, Gabriel I. H. Williams to the United States of America in 1994.
Wesseh, born on August 24, was a career journalist who spent over 40 years in the noble profession which he started before completing secondary education at the D. Twe Memorial High School formerly William Richard Tolbert High School in 1981 in Monrovia.
Besides the Inquirer which came into being on Tuesday, January 15, 1991 with it median edition as one of the oldest post-war newspapers in Liberia, he worked with two other local dailies the DAILY STAR and DAILY OBSERVER Newspapers during the 1980s respectively.
Until his death yesterday, Wesseh did not only teach journalism or mass communications at various tertiary institutions including the University of Liberia, United Methodist University and Jireh, among others, he also nurture many journalists in the profession through workshops, seminars and vacationing programs as well as internships at the Inquirer Newspaper.
He studied Mass Communications (Journalism) and Economics at the University of Liberia and Law at the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia.
The acting Managing Editor expressed great grieve over the passing of Mr. Wesseh in whom she too finds a father and expressed the institution’s sympathy to the family.
“Mr. Wesseh’s pride has always been the Inquirer Newspaper and his dream was to ensure that his legacy continues; that we, as an institution, will strive to do,” the acting Managing Editor, C. Winnie Saywah-Jimmy assured.
Meanwhile, Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
