Obituaries

Prof. Jubril Aminu, a prominent Nigerian scholar, diplomat, and public servant who once served as the country’s Minister of Education...

Mrs. Adejumoke Awero Adesina, mother of leading Nigerian energy executive and industrialist Kola Adesina, has passed away at the age...

Pope Francis who died yesterday morning, April 21, at the age of 88 was a trailblazer in more than one...

Pope Francis, the first Jesuit and first Latin American to lead the Roman Catholic Church, died early Monday at the...

The renowned founder of Diamond Bank and a trailblazer in Nigeria's finance and telecommunications sectors, Pascal Dozie, has passed away...

Samsung Electronics co-Chief Executive Officer, Han Jong-Hee, at the age of 63, died on Tuesday after suffering a cardiac arrest. 

Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, a prominent figure in Nigerian politics and advocate for the Niger Delta, has died at the age of...

Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, has died at the age of 56, according to a...

Quincy Jones, the talented music producer whose seven-decade career spanned jazz, pop, and film, has died at the age of...

Nigeria’s veteran singer of the early 1980s, Onyeka Onwenu, has passed away at the age of 72.