Death
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A tortoise popularly known as Alagba at the palace of Soun of Ogbomoso in Oyo State is dead. The 344-year-old sacred tortoise said to be the oldest in Africa was sick for a few days before its death on Thursday. Alagba became a popular breed upon the ascension of the throne of the current Soun of […]
One-half of the music group, popularly known as Danfo Driver group, Mountain Black has accused the Nigerian music industry of neglecting Mad Melon, his recently deceased colleague. On Thursday, September 26, 2019, Daddy Showkey announced Mad Melon’s death on Instagram after he reportedly battle with an undisclosed illness. Mountain Black, who rose to fame with Mad Melon in 2003 […]
The Taraba State INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Baba Abba is dead. Confirming the report to Channels Television via a telephone interview the Public relations officer of INEC in the state Fabian Vhamhi said he died last night in Maiduguri after a protracted illness. He was a part of the result collation exercise for the […]
Nigeria’s Chief Trade Negotiator and Director-General of Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiation, Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe, is dead. His death was confirmed in a tweet by the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Before his death, he chaired the Negotiating Forum of the African Union (AU) from June 2017 to March 2018, during which time the […]
There was serious apprehension in Ijare, a community in Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State when a mysterious thunder struck and killed thirty-six cows. The Fulani herdsmen rearing the cows were said to have led them to the top of a hill known as Oke-Owa, a sacred groove where the king of the community […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday mourned the passing of one of his staff member, Buhari Nalado Sandamu. “I have lost a good and honest caretaker. “I have lost a prudent and a wonderful custodian who did so well taking care of my country home in Daura. May Allah bless his soul and give strength to […]
Three people have been killed following the outbreak of yellow fever disease in Bauchi State. The Executive Chairman of the State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, confirmed this to Channels Television in an exclusive interview on Saturday. He noted that there were 23 other suspected cases while a few persons were receiving treatment […]
Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe with an iron fist from 1980 to 2017, has died aged 95, the country’s president announced Friday. First heralded as a liberator who rid the former British colony of Rhodesia of white minority rule, Mugabe used repression and fear to hold on to power in Zimbabwe until he was finally […]
