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Pan-Atlantic Varsity Mourns As SMC Dean, Micheal Okolo, Dies

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Dean of the School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University, Dr Michael Okolo, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Enase Okonedo, who announced this in a statement, tasked acquittances of the late pioneer member of the newly formed Centre for Media and Communication (CMC) to put his wife, Mrs Rosemary Okolo, his children and his loved ones in their prayers. Here below is the statement. With heavy hearts but with total submission to the will of God, we announce the passing away of…

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First Graduate Nurse In Ijebu History, Sanni, Dies, Kinsmen Mourn

ADEOLA YUSUF

The first graduate nurse in the entire history of IjebuLand,Southwest Nigeria, Alhaja M.A. Sanni, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that Sanni’s death,announced by the family, has elicited mourning among her Ijebu kinsmen and women who took turns to extol her virtues. READ ALSO: Jeleel Ojuade: Chronicles of First Professor of Dance in Yoruba History ÀARE̩ KURUMI OF IJAIYE. THE YORUBA WARRIOR WHO LOST FIVE SONS IN ONE DAY Oxford Varsity Gets First Igbo Language Lecturer Meet Dr Osemwengie, Nigerian Designer of American Army Drones With 4 PhDs Adebayo Adeneye-Adejuwon who…

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Joseph Egbunike, DIG Investigating Abba Kyari Slumps, Dies

Ayobami Adedinni

Joseph Egbunike, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, who was in-charge of the Force Criminal Investigations Department, is dead. According to reports, Egbunike died on Tuesday, after he slumped in his office, in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The DIG, who hails from Onitsha, Anambra State, was until his death, heading the Special Investigation Panel constituted by the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, to investigate the activities of the suspended head of the Police Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, over money laundering allegations. While details of the incident is…

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BREAKING: LASU Prof Danmole, Soun of Ogbomoso Eldest Daughter, Dies

ADEOLA YUSUF

Professor Danmole passed on at the age of 71, days after her retirement at the Lagos State University to join the husband in Ilorin, North-central Nigeria   A professor at the Lagos State University (LASU), Taibat Bolanle Danmole, has been confirmed to have passed on after brief illness. Platforms Africa reports that Danmole is the eldest daughter of Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Jimoh Oyewumi. Her death came exactly 28 days after her father joined his ancestors. Danmole was said to have passed on at the age of 71, days after…

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Nigeria mourns as Muhammed, Son of Social Crusader Gani Fawehinmi, dies

Gbenga Adeoti

. Buhari, Sanwo-Olu,NLC others extol late lawyer’s virtues The death of Mohammed, first son of Nigeria’s social Crusader, late Gani Fawehinmi, has sunk the community of human right, politics and freedom fighters in Africa’s biggest economy into mourning. Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has, for instance, mourned the passing of Mohammed Fawehinmi, eldest son of the late legal luminary and human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi. He also commiserated with family and friends of the deceased, describing his death as a colossal loss to the civil society movement in Nigeria. Governor…

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Nigeria’s Popular broadcaster, Star FM GM El-Amin Gbadeyanka, dies

Gbenga Adeoti

  Lagos NUJ ex-Chair shares experience from last visit to late broadcaster on hospital bed 24 hours before his death   A popular broarcaster in Nigeria, Mr. El-Amin Gbadeyanka, popularly called Mr. G , is dead. Gbadeyanka, who was until his death, the General Manager Star FM radio service, passed on Saturday, July 17, at the Lagoon Hospital, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. The immediate past chairman, Lagos State Council of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Dr. Qazim Akinreti, who confirmed Gbadeyanka’s death narrated how he visited the deceased…

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Nigeria’s Popular DJ, Mother’s Only Child, Allegedly Poisoned, Dies

Lukman Olasunkanmi

Here is DJ FlexyNaija’s emotion-soaked Facebook post hours before he was allegedly poisoned, killed   Nigerian Disc Jockey and hypeman, DJ FlexyNaija, is dead. It was learnt that the DJ, who is the only child of his mum, was allegedly poisoned and died on Saturday. This, however, came after the student of Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State shared a Facebook post in which he talked about “success attracting envy.”   READ ALSO: 200-level Varsity Student who ‘committed suicide’ is NCC Board Chairman’s Daughter How Ibadan Poly Fellowship President was Shot,…

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BREAKING: Lagos ex-Commissioner for Energy, Taofiq Tijani, dies + PHOTOS

Tade Salako

  The wishes, Views and unfulfilled dreams of the ex Manager Upstream Gas Supply at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation + last interview A former Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, Engineer Taofiq Tijani, is dead. Tijani, who was also a former Manager UpStream Gas Supply at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as well as a Senior Technical Assistant to the Minister of Petroleum Resources from 2009 to 2010. died in Lagos and his corpse has been scheduled for burial today, Saturday, March 13,…

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Nigerian Customs’ ex-Chief, Abdullahi Dikko, dies

ADEOLA YUSUF

  The former Comptroller of the Nigerian Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko, has died. A statement by the agency’s Public Relations Officer, Joseph Attah, read; “The family of the former Comptroller General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko Inde just announced his passing away today. His funeral prayers ( Janaza ) will take place tomorrow, Friday 19th February, 2020 after Jumaat Prayers at National Mosque Abuja. “He was the Comptroller General of Customs from 2009 to 2015. May Allah Forgive his shortcomings and may Aljannatul Firdausi be his final abode. “May Allah give…

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