•Late Abass Sanusi The most senior councillor and oldest member of the Kano Emirate Council, Abbas Sanusi, has passed away at the age of 92. The late prince, who held the esteemed title of Galadiman Kano, died yesterday in Kano after a prolonged illness, reports Channels TV. A longstanding figure in the Emirate, Abbas Sanusi […]
•Late Maria Branyas Morera The world’s oldest living person, Spain’s Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States and lived through two world wars, has died at the age of 117, her family said today. “Maria Branyas has left us. She died as she wished: in her sleep, peacefully and without pain,” her […]
•John Tinniswood A great-grandfather from Merseyside, John Tinniswood has become the world’s oldest living man. Tinniswood, who is 111 years and 223 days old, puts his longevity down to a fish and chips on a Friday and has hiked regularly when he was young, reports AFP. Tinniswood, who now lives in a care home in […]

