Legendary music icon, Onyeka Onwenu, has been laid to rest in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Onwenu, popularly know as the “Elegant Stallion”, died on July 30, after collapsing at an event. The funeral service held on Friday at the Fountain of Life Church, Ilupeju,...
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Late Nigerian music icon, Onyeka Onwenu, aka Elegant Stallion will be buried today in Lagos. The singer died on July 30, 2024, at Reddington Hospital, Ikeja, after collapsing at an event honouring Dr Stella Okoli, the Managing Director of Emzor Pharmaceuticals. According to a burial arrangement issued by the...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has announced the death of Ahmed Ali Ahmed, the State Commissioner of Finance. The late Commissioner died on Monday morning, according to a statement from the Commissioner of Information and Internal Security, Professor Usman Tar, in Maiduguri. Details of the death...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The family of a late Judge of the Oyo State High Court, Justice Adegboye Ayinla Gbolagunte, has released the programme for his funeral. The first son of the deceased, Oladiran Gbolagunte, unveiled the weeklong programme in a statement he issued on Sunday. According to...
Bishop Kukah Chief of Moro’a buried in Manchok, Kaduna Tears and tributes poured on Saturday in Manchok, Kaura Local Government in Kaduna State, when the remains of the late Chief of Moroa, Mr Tagwai Sambo, were laid to rest. The first class traditional ruler was 88 and had spent...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The remains of the Late Commissioner of Police, Jatau Anga (Rtd), was on Saturday buried amidst tributes and eulogies from the Church, family and associates. CP Anga, who was also a former military administrator of Enugu State, battled with dementia for few years,...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Inspector General of Police (IGP) in Nigeria, Kayode Egbetokun, has mourned the death of a retired CP, Jatau Anga, who died last week Tuesday. Recalled that the retired CP, JS Anga, who hailed from Nasarawa State, died after a protracted illness at...
Millions of mourners flocked to a funeral procession in Tehran on Wednesday after the death of Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, in a helicopter accident, footage from local media showed. The broadcaster showed the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leading a prayer ceremony in front of the victim’s...
Funeral ceremonies has begun in Iran for president Ebrahim Raisi, foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other victims of Sundays helicopter crash. State media reported that thousands of government supporters flocked to the start of the ceremony in the north-western city of Tabriz on Tuesday to bid farewell. According...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – The funeral arrangement of late Nollywood actor, Junior Pope has been released. It would be recall that the actor drowned on April 10 along with four crew members, while travelling by water for filmmaker Adanma Luke’s film “The Other Side of Life”.
President Bola Tinubu has described the former governor of Anambra, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, as a true son of the soil who fought for the peace and unity of Nigeria. Tinubu made the remarks as Ezeife’s remains were laid to rest on Saturday in his Igbo-Ukwu country home, Aguata Local...
Enugu State Government, has said it is working with the families of the late Nollywood actors, John Okafor, a.k.a Mr Ibu, and Obumneme Odonwodo, a.k.a Junior Pope, to give them a befitting burial. The Enugu State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr Aka Eze Aka, disclosed this in...
The grand burial plan of the late sage, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, is tripartite. The first is the national burial, which just concluded in Abuja; the second is the Anambra state burial of the late statesman; and the third is the Igbo customary burial by his hometown, Igbo-Ukwu. When...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu and other notable dignitaries have joined others to witness the funeral and memorial service in honour of the late Obong Enobong Thomas Umanah, founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State. In...
President Bola Tinubu has described the 17 officers and soldiers killed in Okuama community in Delta State on March 14 as patriotic, brave and gallant Nigerians. He said that the deceased gave their lives to defend and protect the Nation against internal and external threats. At the burial...
President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, led governors, federal lawmakers, military top brass, dignitaries, families and friends of 17 gallant military personnel gruesomely murdered in Delta State to lay wreaths in honour of the slain officers and soldiers. The President was the Special Guest of Honour at the inauspicious...
The remains of 17 military personnel killed in Okuama community in Delta on March 14, have arrived the National Military Cemetery, Abuja, for burial. The bodies, which arrived at about 2:26 pm on Wednesday, were conveyed by the Military Ambulance Emergency vehicles and FCT Ambulance Emergency services among...
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo, has described the passing of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Olalekan Balogun, as “shocking” . In a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Mr Kehinde Akinyemi on Friday in Abeokuta, Obasanjo said the news was received with great shock and profound sadness. The...
The late Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Lekan Balogun who died late Thursday, will be buried on Friday evening in Ibadan, a family member has announced. The late Oba who died barely 72 hours after completing two years on the throne as the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadanland will be...
Herbert Wigwe, his wife, Chizoba, and son, Chizi have been buried in his hometown Omueke, Isiokpo in Rivers State. The late Chief Executive Officer of Access Holdings Plc, his wife, and his son were laid to rest in a private interment following a funeral church service at...