Mourning
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President Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with family, friends and fans of former Super Falcons striker, Ifeanyi Stephanie Chiejine, who passed on at her prime, 36 years. The President condoled with the Super Falcons and sports authorities over the loss of the dedicated and passionate player who made history as the youngest player in the Women’s […]
Czech international Josef Sural has died of injuries sustained in a minibus crash while returning with teammates from a match in southern Turkey, his Turkish club Aytemiz Alanyaspor said on Monday. The club’s chairman said the accident occurred after both the drivers on the bus fell asleep. “Czech player Josef Sural who was seriously injured […]
The Federal Government has condoled with the family of the General Manager of the National Theatre, Dr Stella Oyedepo, who died in a road accident. The Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, said her death has created a huge vacuum in the ecosystem of the nation’s creative industry. He made the remark on […]
The Bauchi State police command has confirmed the death of thirteen persons following a fatal motor vehicles accident on Sunday, March 31. According to the command’s spokesperson, DSP Kamal Abubakar, the accident occurred at about noon along the Bauchi-Gombe road. Abubakar stated that a bus loaded with 13 passengers and a Toyota Camry loaded with […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has decried the level of damage done by politics in securing the lives and properties of Nigerians across the country. President Muhammadu Buhari said this while condemning Saturday’s attack by gunmen which left at least nine persons dead in NanduGbok community in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State. He urged those […]
Pictures of Nigerian scholar and author, Pius Adesanmi, was all over the internet on Sunday following his death as a result of a plane crash. Adesanmi, a renowned columnist, was onboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane en route Kenya from Ethiopia before it crashed barely 10 minutes after take-off. The scholar, a retired Nigerian ambassador who […]
President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has expressed profound shock at the plane crash involving an Ethiopian Airliner bound for Nairobi, Kenya, in which all the 149 passengers and eight crew members died. In statement by his media aide,GARBA SHEHU, BUHARI extends his sincere condolences to Prime Minister ABIY AHMED of Ethiopia, the people of Ethiopia, Kenya, Canada, […]
A former General Secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Taiwo Ogunjobi, is dead. The nation’s football governing announced this via its Twitter handle on Monday. According to the NFF, Ogunjobi died following a brief illness. It condoled with the family and relatives of the former NFF scribe, as well as the lovers of football […]
British investigators said Monday they had spotted a body in the wreckage of a plane that disappeared in the Channel two weeks ago carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala and his pilot. Sala, 28, was flying from France to join his new club, Premier League side Cardiff City, when the light aircraft disappeared on January 21 […]
Late Air Chief Marshall, Alex Badeh has finally been laid to rest. Badeh’s corpse was buried at the military cemetery in Abuja, after a funeral service at the Pentecostal church, Air Force base in the state. Present at the funeral was the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha as well as the governors of […]
