A veteran television broadcaster, Chief Timawus Mathias, has died at 73.

Timawus, fondly called Uncle T, died on Friday after a brief illness.

After long years of active broadcasting, Timawus rose to become the General Manager of NTA Yola in 1983.

He remained on that post till 1991 when he retired from the national television establishment.

He was venerated as a legend and was immortalized by the NTA which named its Yola office complex after him.

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DAAR Communications, under which he worked after his retirement from the NTA, also honoured him by naming its AIT Yola office after him.

The Head of Yola Station of the AIT, Bashir Abdullahi who broke the news of Timmawus death, explained that Timmawus was designated a director and put in charge of the entire North East operations of the AIT.

Bashir said he took over the Yola Office of the AIT after Timwaus left the services of the AIT last year.

Governor Ahmadu Fintiri, in a condolence message Friday evening, described the death of Timawus as shocking.

Fintiri said in the statement which was signed by his Press Secretary, Humwashi Wonosikou, that the late veteran journalist was a great role model “who leaves behind a rich legacy that should be emulated.”

The late Timawus Mathias was a Bachama man from Numan, a major town south of the state capital, Yola.