The wife of the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Coscharis Group, Dr Cosmas Maduka, is dead.
Mrs Chairty Maduka, the Vice President of the Coscharis Group, it was gathered, died on Saturday evening in Nnewi, Anambra State.
Her namesake and daughter, Charity, confirmed the death of her mother to The PUNCH on Sunday evening.
“I can confirm that she passed away Saturday evening,” a grieving Charity said amid muttered sobs in a phone conversation with our correspondent.
According to a profile on Coscharis Group’s website, Mrs Maduka was a co-owner of the company founded by her husband.
“In her capacity, she was once the Executive Director supervising the Administrative, Legal, Works/Maintenance, Export, Technologies teams of the organization from 1984–2003. Under her tutelage, she was able to grow the business by creating value via the various strategic departments she supervised within the organization.
“As a board member of the group, in the year 2005, she later became the Executive Chairman/COO of two of the subsidiaries of the Coscharis Group namely Coscharis Beverages Limited and Coscharis Properties Limited respectively,” the profile read in part.
The deceased was also a professional teacher and caterer. She attended Teachers’ Training College, Nsugbe in Anambra State from 1979 to 1981 and Consertum Institute of Catering and Hotel Management, Idi-Araba, Lagos State from February to July, 1983.