•Late Audu Ogbeh Former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, is dead. He was 78. Ogbeh, who also served as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 2001 to 2005, died peacefully, his family announced in a statement today. “It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of […]
•Late Jim Lovell US astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon which nearly ended in disaster in 1970 after a mid-flight explosion, has died at the age of 97, NASA announced yesterday. Lovell, who was played by actor Tom Hanks in the 1995 movie “Apollo 13,” never made it […]
•Late Dr. Doyin Abiola Dr. Doyin Abiola, wife of Concord Publisher and winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, is dead. Sources said she died at exactly 9.15 pm yesterday after illness, reports The Nation. The former managing director and publisher of National Concord was the first Nigerian woman to be […]
•Train accident in Russia A freight train rammed into a tourist bus at a level crossing near the Russian city of Saint Petersburg today, killing one person and injuring 11, officials said. The accident in northwestern Russia occurred at 0300 GMT, Russia’s rail network said. The bus was on the tracks when the train hit […]
•Boat sinks on the high sea A shipwreck off Yemen has killed at least 68 people, the UN’s migration agency said today, with dozens still missing after the boat carrying mostly Ethiopians sank. The International Organisation for Migration’s country chief of mission, Abdusattor Esoev, told our correspondent that “as of last night, 68 people aboa...
A Final-Year student of the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, identified simply as Blessing, has been found dead five days after she was declared missing. The late student was said to be in the Department of Micro-biology. Sources said she was seen last Sunday but got missing after an examination held the next day, […]
•Late Ahmed Hardawa The Chairman of the Bauchi State Independent Electoral Commission (BASIEC), Ahmed Hardawa, is dead. It was gathered that he died in Abuja after a brief illness, reports Daily Trust. In a condolence message, Governor Bala Mohammed expressed deep shock and sorrow over the loss, saying his demise was a profound tragedy to [&he...
The Niger State Emergency Management Agency, (NSEMA) has confirmed that 39 passengers were on board in the ill-fated boat that was involved in an accident last Saturday around Gini, Zumba, in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. Confirming the information yesterday in a release signed and made available to journalists in Minna was the...
The Ogun State Police Command says it has launched an intensive investigation into the brutal killing of a 16-year-old boy, Lawal Wahab, whose mutilated body was allegedly discovered along the Old Express Road in Igbile-Ijebu. The missing boy who had been living with his grandmother was reported missing by his father, Lawal Olumide, earlier th...
•Obafemi Lasode A popular veteran music practitioner, Obafemi Lasode is dead. Born in December 1955, Lasode gave up the ghost this morning. This was made known in a chat with The Frontier today by former President of Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigeria, PMAN, Dr Tee Mac Omatshola Iseli. The cause of the death was […]
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