Another thick pall of gloom cast over maritime journalism and the entire maritime industry with the passage of the President of Maritime Reporters Association of Nigeria (MARAN), Mrs. Ifeyinwa Obi, early Monday.
   The third shocking death within the maritime journalists? fold in less than two months, Obi, who was the first female president of the oldest maritime journalists? union, MARAN, and a correspondent with Vanguard Newspapers, was said to have died in her residence from an undisclosed illness.
   She was a strong advocate of a sanitised maritime journalism sphere, ever seeking to purge the field of marketers and advert agents, among other all-comers who often throng the industry as journalists. She was a mother of four children - The Authority