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Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, secretary-general of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), is dead. Mele Kyari, group…

Leonard Chimezie Onyemachi, a Nollywood actor popularly called Leo Mezie has died, aged 46. Mezie has…

The Alaafin of Oyo, Lamidi Adeyemi, has passed on, PREMIUM TIMES can report. Alaafin Adeyemi, the third from the…

Alhaji Fatai Abayomi Adekunle, a former Local Government Area (LGA) Chairman of Lagos Island in Lagos State, has died. POLITICS NIGERIA learned that Alhaji Adekunle died on Sunday 17th April, 2022. The actual cause…

Iconic highlife musician, Orlando Julius, has passed on. The ‘A dara, a dara’ singer, among many other acclaimed songs, died hours ago at the age of 79, Phenomenal Lagos said. The passage was relayed by his…

Prince Emeka Obasi, publisher of Hallmark Newspaper, a business, policy and finance daily newspaper, is dead, THE…

OJ Best, the Nigerian shoe designer who made footwear for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in 2020, is dead. His death was announced via his Twitter page — a few hours after it was revealed that he suffered a “serious…

Prof. Tunde Samuel, a close ally and top political strategist of the Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is dead. Sameul, a chieftain of…

Nollywood Yoruba actor, John Adewuni, popularly known as Tafa Oloyede is dead. According to Osun state Secretary of the Theater Arts and Motion Picture Producers Association of Nigeria, Ademola Oyedokun, the late Tafa Oloyede…

Professor Gidado Tahir, the pioneer Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Council, is dead. Details of his death were sketchy as of the time of filing this report.…

Chu Okongwu, an economist and a former minister of finance, is dead. He died on Wednesday morning. He was aged 87. Okongwu was born on September 23, 1934, in Anambra state,…

Otunba Christopher Alao-Akala, a former Deputy Governor of Oyo State, is dead. Details of his death are sketchy but sources close to the politician confirmed the tragic incident to Daily…

Chief Ernest Shonekan, the former head of the Interim National Government that succeeded the military junta of General Ibrahim Babangida, is dead. Shonekan died in Lagos on Tuesday at the age…

Alhaji  Bashir Tofa, one of the leading candidates in the 1993 Presidential Election, which was adjudged the freest and fairest in the country, is dead. Details of his death are still sketchy…

Soun of Ogbomosoland, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi Ajagungbade III is dead It was gathered that the monarch died early Sunday morning at the age of 95 after spending 47 years on the throne.…

Babatunde Omidina, Nollywood actor, popularly known as Baba Suwe, is dead. Details of Omidina’s death are sketchy but a source said  that the actor, who has been in and out of the hospital…

Frederick William de Klerk, South Africa’s last apartheid president, who released Nelson Mandela from prison, has died at the age of 85. According to a statement by F.W. de Klerk…

Emir of Gaya, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdulkadir, died in Kano State on Wednesday. A presidential aide, Bashir Ahmad, confirmed the death in a Facebook post. He posted, “As announced by…

Obadiah Mailafia, a former  deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is dead. Mr Mailafia, 64, died on Sunday morning at the National Hospital, Abuja. He was…

Abdulaziz Chibuzor Ude, an elder statesman and former acting chairman of the board of directors of Newswatch, is dead. The Anambra state government announced the passing of the…

A former information minister during General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida’s regime and later military Administrator of Rivers State, retired Brigadier General Anthony Ukpo is dead.…

A former Plateau Central senator and deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, is dead. He was reported to have died in the early hours of today, Tuesday, August 17,…

Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau has condoled with the NASCO family, over the passing of the founder of the NASCO Group of Companies, Ahmed Nasreddin, who died at the age of 96. The governor in a…

Barnabas Imenger, Lobi Stars team manager and former Super Eagles striker, is dead. Austin Tyowua, media officer of the team, who confirmed the tragedy to TheCable, said that Imenger died at the national hospital in…