Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia has described late Prof. Uche Ikonne, the former Abia Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as an “excellent scholar and administrator”. Ikpeazu said this on Friday during the burial ceremony of the deceased at Agburuike village of Nsulu Community in Isiala Ngwa...
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By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Worried that the remains of the former Senate President, Joseph Wayas has been abandoned in a London Hospital 16 months after his demised, the Federal Government has been urged to urgently take over the burial arrangements before the end of April this year. Moving...
The remains of the late President-General (P-G) of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof. George Obiozor, were laid to rest on Friday in his Awo-Omamma country home, Oru East Local Government Area of Imo. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that eminent Nigerians, who attended the funeral service held at the...
Burkina Faso’s transition government has announced that the remains of President Thomas Sankara and his 12 companions assassinated on 15 October 1987 will be reburied later this month, at the Thomas Sankara Memorial in the capital, Ouagadougou. This decision is the result of consultations within the Armed Forces, the...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari has sent his condolence message to Gov. Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State over the death of his eldest son, Alhaji Hassan Sule. The deceased, aged 36, who died on Thursday evening after a brief illness has since been buried in Gudi,...
The Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kaduna Command, Mr Idris Adah, paid last respect to personnel killed by bandits in Kaduna state . The Command Public Relations Officer, DSC Habeeb Badamasi, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Kaduna. Seven personnel...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Members of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) will on Jan. 16 pay tributes to their female colleague, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, who was shot dead on Christmas Day, by a policeman attached to the Ajiwe Police Station in Ajah, Lagos State. The NBA made this...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has paid glowing tributes to Tunde Jonathan Mark, son of former Senate President, David Mark who was buried Friday, November 11th, 2022. Governor Ortom who joined other political and religious leaders across the country spoke during the requeim Mass...
Gunmen on Saturday abducted scores of travellers on on Benin-Owo Expressway in Ifon , the headquarters of Ose Local Government Area of Ondo State. The number of victims could not be ascertained as some sources said the victims were over 40 while others gave their number as 32. One...
Troops of Guards Brigade Nigerian Army who were killed by terrorists in the Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory, on July 24, were buried onThursdy. The leader of the soldiers, Captain Attah Samuel, and four other soldiers, who paid the supreme price during a clearance operation, were buried...
Former Inspector-General of Police, Mr Tafa Balogun, was buried in his country home of Ila-Orangun, Osun, on Saturday. Balogun was appointed Nigeria’s 21st Inspector-General of Police on March 6, 2002. He left the office in 2005. He passed on in Lagos on Thursday, four days to his 75th birthday....
An official burial ceremony is taking place on Thursday for the tooth of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital Kinshasa. The relic is all that remains of the African country’s first prime minister, who was murdered in 1961 by separatist rebels in collusion with Belgian mercenaries....
By ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Hundreds of sympathizers, family and friends gathered on Friday to pay their last respect to the founding and pioneer Chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bauchi State Chapter, Rev. Engr. Nathaniel Odekunle, as his remains were laid to rest. The deceased who...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – The remains of the late Cross River State Chairman of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Comrade Albert Archibong Andinam (JP) has been laid to rest in Calabar, the state capital. The late sport enthusiast suffered from an ailment while receiving treatment at the...
The remains of maverick politician and astute businessman, late Chief Francis Arthur Nzeribe was on Saturday, laid to rest at his country home of Oguta, in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo. Born Nov. 2, 1938, late Nzeribe, known as a de-tribalised Nigerian Senator, died on May 5, 2022...
Pastor Emmanuel Maaaji of the First Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Tunga Magajiya, Niger, has confirmed the arrival in Magajiya of the body of the slain student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, Miss Deborah Samuel, for burial. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the late...
Twenty-nine bodies of young firewood hawkers have been buried in Gidan Magana Village in the Shagari Local Government Area (LGA) of Sokoto State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the hawkers died on Wednesday when their boat capsized in Shagari River on their way to fetch firewood...
The body of the late Yoruba actor, John Adewuni (popularly called Tafa Oloyede) has been laid to rest in his home town of Ede, Osun on Friday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Adewuni died at his residence in Osogbo on Feb. 1, at the age of...
The remains of Mrs Adanma Okpara, wife of the late former Premier of Eastern Nigeria, Dr M. I. Okpara, were on Friday laid to rest amidst encomiums and eulogies. Okpara died on Aug. 22 at the age of 99 and was buried in her country home in Umuegwu-Okpuala, Umuahia...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi – Family members, friends and hundreds sympathizers gathered on Wednesday at the Church of Christ in Nations, LCC Millennium Quarters in Bauchi for the funeral service of three people who died in a ghastly auto crash while returning from a wedding in Jos. The deceased included...