Obituary

Olympic high jump champion Dick Fosbury, who revolutionised the event with a radically different jumping technique that was eventually named after him, has died aged 76, his agent Ray Schulte …

Former Head Coach of Super Falcons, Nigeria’s women’s senior national team, Ismaila Mabo, has died at the age of 79 in the early hours of Monday. According to family sources, …

Popular South African artiste, Costa Tsobanoglou, professionally known as Costa Titch, has passed on. The ‘Big Flexa’ rapper reportedly died while thrilling fans at the Ultra Music Festival held in …

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 …