The All Progressives Grand Alliance – APGA, has expressed condolences to the family of the foremost nationalist and first Nigeria’s Aviation Minister, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi, who died on November 1, 2022 at the age 93 years old. In a press statement made available to journalists, the APGA National Publicity Secretary described the death of Chief Amaechi as a national loss, given the enormous experience and value he amassed over the years from the Nigeria’s pre-independence...
Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) The only surviving Zikist, Chief Mbazulike Amechi is dead. Amechi who died at the age of 93 years had only one regret in life: that is non- release of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The nationalist had at several times led delegations to Aso Rock for the release of Kanu , all to no avail. According to a release from the family, signed by Azeana...
LAGOS — Last night, unconfirmed reports surfaced, claiming that Ifeanyi, the son of David Adeleke, also known as Davido, is dead. According to the reports, the young boy, who enjoyed a lavish third birthday celebration last week, drowned in a swimming pool at his father’s residence in the Banana Island area of Lagos State. After being pulled out of the swimming pool, he was quickly taken to the hospital but efforts to revive him were...
By Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent) YOLA — President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the Government and people of Adamawa State over the passing of an illustrious son, ace broadcast/Journalist Chief Timawus Mathias. Mathias who served the country as a broadcaster, writer, and media consultant for more than fifty years died at the age of 73 on Friday at Modibbo Adama Teaching Hospital, Yola after a protracted illness. Buhari in a statement by his...
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, and the nation’s figurehead has died. The Queen died peacefully at the Balmoral Castle, United Kingdom, on Thursday, 8 September 2022 aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. Queen Elizabeth’s passing comes more than a year after her husband, Philip died aged 99 in April 2021. Since his death, her own health faltered, and she was forced to miss an increasing number of events mainly due to ‘mobility problems’...
One of the renowned Islamic clerics in Adamawa State and descendant of Modibbo Jailani, Sheikh Yahaya Mustafa Modibbo Jailani joined his ancestors on Thursday at the age of 85. Late Sheik Jailani, who died after a protracted illness until his demise is the Chief Imam Modibbo Jailani Jumma’at Mosque Yola town and left behind 2 wives, 6 children, and siblings. Meanwhile, the remains of the Islamic cleric have been laid to rest on Friday in...
British-based Nigerian playwright and filmmaker, Biyi Bandele has passed on. His death was announced via a statement signed by his daughter, Temi Bandele. According to the statement, he died on Sunday, 7 August 2022 at the age of 54. “I am heartbroken to share the sudden and unexpected death on Sunday 7th of August in Lagos of my father Biyi Bandele,” his daughter, Temi, wrote. “Biyi was a prodigiously talented writer and filmmaker, as well...
Japan’s longest-serving leader, Shinzo Abe died hours after he was shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election on Friday. Police said a 41-year-old man identified as Tetsuya Yamagami, suspected of carrying out the shooting had been arrested and was quoted as telling police he was dissatisfied with Abe and wanted to kill him. This is shocking to Japan, a country in which political violence is rare and guns are tightly controlled. Reuters reports that a...
Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is dead. He died Tuesday night at 63 a few hours after a visit to President Muhammad Buhari in the Aso Rock Abuja. The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari in a tweet in the early hours of Wednesday announced Barkindo’s death. He described his demise as a great loss to his family, NNPC Nigeria, OPEC...
Professor Femi Soyinka, the younger brother of Nigerian Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, is dead. According to a statement by his family, Soyinka, a former Provost of the College of Health Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, died in the early hours of Tuesday, June 14, 2022, at his home in Kukumada Village, Ibadan, Oyo State at 85. Soyinka, who received a degree in Medicine and Surgery MBchB from the University of Heidelberg in 1964...
