Tag: DEATH

Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, has revealed that the first person to die of the coronavirus in the state did not...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the death of two coronavirus (COVID-19) patients in Lagos and Edo. The agency announced this on...

American soul singer, Bill Withers, who wrote the popular song 'Lean on Me', has died of a heart complication at the age of 81. This...

President Muhammadu Buhari has mourned the Emir of Jere, Sa’ad Usman, who was also husband of former minister of finance, Senator Nenadi Usman. The president,...

Sports broadcaster and founder of Brila FM, Larry Izamoje, has lost his mother, Felicia Izamoje, at the age of 89. The family announced the passage...

The world and the football community are in grief over the death of former Olympique de Marseille’s president, Pape Diouf. Mr Diouf died on Tuesday of...

Nigeria’s Rio 2016 Paralympic gold medalist, Ndidi Nwosu, has died after a brief illness. Former President of the Nigeria Powerlifting Federation (NPPF), Queen Uboh-Idris, confirmed her death...

Former minister of finance, Senator Nenadi Usman, has lost her husband, Sa’ad Usman, the emir of Jere, Kaduna State, at age 70. Usman was finance...

Emir of Ilorin and Chairman of Kwara State Traditional Council, Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has described the death of Dr Alfa Sa’adu as a great loss...

Author of famous English textbooks, Practical English and Brighter Grammar, Phebean Ogundipe, has died at the age of 92. Ogundipe died in Charlotte, North Carolina...