Obituaries

The Vatican has confirmed that Bernard Law, the former Boston cardinal who disgracefully resigned during the church sex abuse scandal, has died at age 86. He died in Rome, where he...

Popular fuji musician, Alhaji Wasiu Ayinde, has paid tribute to her daughter, Wasilat Olaronke Ashabi Ayinde, who passed on in Canada on Tuesday. Wasilat was said to have died after...

Ihuoma Chiedozie, Enugu Second Republic vice president, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, is dead. The elder statesman’s death was disclosed in a statement issued by the Ekwueme family of Oko, in Anambra...

Toto Riina, one of the most feared Godfathers in the history of the Sicilian Mafia, died early Friday after battling cancer, Italian media reported. Riina, who had been serving 26...

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has broken his silence on the demise of his eldest son, Jide, online medium, Cable, has reported. Jide died of cardiac...

Nollywood Actress, Funke Abisogun AlHassan, is dead. The actress, who gave birth to a baby some days ago, died on Sunday evening. Her death was announced by her brother-in-law, Tunde...

Tom Petty, the Southern-accented rocker whose classic melodies and dark storytelling created 40 years of hit songs, died Monday of cardiac arrest, his family said. He was 66. Petty, who...

Pa Adebayo Faleti, the renowned Nigerian broadcaster has been confirmed died today at the UCH, Ibadan. Aged 86. According to his son, Adeniyi said that his father stopped breathing right...

Chester Bennington, the front man singer of the chart-topping hard rock band Linkin Park, found dead in his residence on Thursday, July 20. it was reported that he died in...

He died at the age of 68. He was a former provost of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan and also served as the head of Nigeria's Aids Control...