Obituary

President Muhammadu Buhari has extended heartfelt condolences to the former First Lady, Marayam Abacha, and her family on the death of their son, Abdullahi. This was contained in a statement …

Just Fontaine, the all-time top scorer in a single World Cup finals with 13 goals, has died aged 89, his family told AFP on Wednesday. Fontaine achieved the record in …

Famed British football commentator John Motson, who had a distinguished 50-year career with the BBC, has died at the age of 77, his family announced on Thursday. Motson, affectionally nicknamed …

Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu has been found dead under the building where he lived in southern Turkey after last week’s massive earthquake, the ex-Chelsea winger’s Turkish agent said. “Atsu’s lifeless …

Raquel Welch, the US actress who became an international sex symbol after appearing in a deerskin bikini in “One Million Years BC,” died Wednesday, her manager said. She was 82. …

The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Delta and Bayelsa, Lawan Tanko Jimeta, is dead Channels Television gathered that AIG Jimeta died on Sunday morning at the Benin …

Read below as narrated by late Whitney Adeniran’s father: JUSTICE FOR MY DAUGHTER WHITNEY OMODESOLA ADENIRAN. ALL PARENT PAY ATTENTION. Good day Nigerians. This is a call to all well …

Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany’s hard-left Die …

South Africa’s rap artists, Kiernan Forbes, known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the southeastern city of Durban, his family said Saturday. The 35-year-old won multiple …

Composer Burt Bacharach, whose hits such as “Do You Know the Way to San Jose” and “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” provided a mellow alternative soundtrack to rock and …