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Alhaji Rafiu Babatunde Tinubu , the former Head of Service, Lagos State( 1999-2004), is dead. He died in the early hours of Wednesday, September 4, 2019, in his residence at FCT, Abuja at age of 75. He will be buried on Thursday, September 5, 2019, at Okesuna Cemetery after Janazah prayer at Alausa Central Mosque, Alausa, Ikeja, after Zuhri prayer. ...
September, 2019
March, 2019
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18 March
This life!.. Another APC Reps-elect, Butalawa, is dead.
Barely a week after ,2 of those elected are gone !..A Federal House of Representatives-elect, Garba Muhammad Butalawa, representing Kura, Madobi and Garun Mallam in Kano State, has died. Last week, Ezekiel Afon, a lawmaker representing Pengana Constituency in the Plateau State House of Assembly died hours after he was re-elected to represent the constituency. Garba contested on the platform of ...
December, 2018
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18 December
Former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, shot dead
Former Chief of Defence Staff, AlexBadeh, is dead Mr Badeh, a retired air chief marshal, was shot dead along the Abuja-Keffi road. The air force confirmed the death in a couple of tweets on its official Twitter handle. “It is with a heavy heart that I regretfully announce the unfortunate demise of former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal ...
June, 2018
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11 June
RAS KIMONO IS DEAD
Delta born Ukeleke Onwubuya popularly known as Ras Kimono on the music circuit is dead sending the nation’s music family into deep mourning. He died at Lagoon Hospital in Ikoyi where he was transferred ahead of his scheduled medical trip to the US on Saturday night. The Under Pressure man, famed for his peculiar reggae music fused with thick African ...
April, 2018
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27 April
Gov. Tambuwal’s spokesman, Imam Imam, is dead
Imam Imam, the spokesman for Sokoto State governor is dead. He was 41. Mr Imam died after a brief illness at an Abuja hospital in the early hours of Friday. He died at the Nizamieye Turkish Hospital in Abuja over complications of pneumonia. Mr Imam, who studied journalism at Kaduna Polytechnic, began his journalism career at New Nigerian. He later ...
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27 April
Breaking News: Oyo Speaker, Michael Adeyemo, is dead !
Speaker of the Oyo House of Assembly, Honourable Michael Adeyemo is dead. The late lawmaker died this morning at Jericho Hospital Ibadan His body has however been deposited at the UCH morgue in Ibadan Details later…
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26 April
Prof Adebayo Adedeji, is dead
Pioneer Executive Director of the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia-based United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Under Secretary General of the UN, Prof Adebayo Adedeji, is dead. He died in Lagos after a protracted illness. He was 87. He was born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State on December 21, 1930. His death, in the late hours of Wednesday, was announced by ...
February, 2018
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18 February
Wife recounts Prof. Ishola’s Last Moments
Adebola Ishola, wife of the late renowned playwright, Prof. Akinwunmi Ishola, has said her husband gave no sign that he was going to die anytime soon. She told newsmen in Ibadan on Saturday evening that Ishola took a spoonful of custard on Saturday at 9am and repeatedly said: “Thank you my wife,” before he gave up the ghost moments after. ...
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18 February
Prof Akinwumi Isola, 78, is dead, after 2yrs’ illness
A renowned playwright, actor, culture activist and scholar Professor Ishola Akinwunmi has passed on after a prolonged illness. He died yesterday in his Ibadan residence at 78. Isola, who wrote the popular play Efunsetan Aniwura when he was a student of the University of Ibadan in 1961 died in Ibadan after age-related ailment according to a family source. “Baba has ...
May, 2017
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22 May
Aminu Kano’s Wife is dead.
Hajiya Shatu Aminu Kano, Wife of the late Malam Aminu Kano, is dead. Alhaji Aminu Kabara, a grandson to the deceased, who made the announcement, said Shatu died at the age of 89 on Sunday night after a prolonged illness. Her death is coming 34 years after the demise of her husband late Aminu Kano, a radical politician and founder ...
