The secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), George Akume, on behalf of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), mourns the death of the former minister of state for health, Gabriel Yakubu Aduku, aged, 80. Aduku was appointed minister of state for health during the administration of the late former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua where he played an important role …

Italian filmmaker Paolo Taviani, whose gritty biopic “Padre Padrone” won the top Cannes Film Festival prize, has died aged 92, Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri said Thursday. For more than three decades Taviani and his brother Vittorio formed one of cinema’s greatest directorial duos. “Paolo Taviani, a great maestro of Italian cinema, leaves us”, Gualtieri said on X, the former Twitter. …

A 21-year-old final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State, Olubodun Sanni, has confessed stabbing a 20-year-old female student of same institution, Adekunle Ifeoluwa, to death over her iPhone XR. The victim, Adebisi, was a 300-level economics student at the institution and lived off a campus hostel with her killer. Police sources said the suspect confessed …

Marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum has died in a traffic accident, local media in Kenya reported on Sunday night. Kiptum’s Rwandan coach Gervais Hakizimana was also killed in the accident. The Nation reported that the 24-year-old Kenyan star athlete was driving when the accident occurred, with two passengers, including Hakimimana in the car. The other passenger, a lady identified as Sharon …

Mondays are unique, especially in this part of the world, where we rigidly regard days for special activities such as days for business, social events, and rest. Of all days, Monday is loaded with seriousness and freshness, and as the enigmatic Afro musician, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti sang, it is a day of huzzling. In Fela’s words, Eko, ko ni gba igbakugba …

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has denied involvement in the death of a teenager at the Jibia Border Area of Katsina State on Saturday. The National Public Relations Officer of the service, Abdullahi Maiwada, disclosed this in a statement on Monday. He extended the service’s heartfelt condolences to the family of the deceased. According to the residents, the boy was …

President Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, commiserated with the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and the Royal House of Saud on the passing of Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz bin Bandar Al Saud who died in a jet crash Thursday. The Saudi Royal Court announced that Prince Talal Bin Abdulaziz died when the Saudi Arabian Air …

Police in Maiduguri have launched an urgent investigation into the sudden death of the state’s Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Ibrahim Garba. According to a statement by Governor Babagana Zulum’s spokesman, Isa Gusau, Garba died on Saturday morning in Maiduguri According to Gusau, the investigation, is at the behest of Governor Zulum and the state Commissioner of Police, Mohammed …

Israel, reeling from the deadliest attack on its territory in half a century, formally declared war on Hamas on Sunday as the conflict’s death toll surged to 1,000 after the Palestinian militant group launched a massive surprise assault from Gaza. AFP reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steeled the shocked and grieving nation for a “long and difficult” war ahead …

Akwa Ibom State High Court, sitting in Essien Udim Local Government Area, LGA, has sentenced two brothers to death for killing a 45-year-old farmer, Iboro Joe, over a parcel of land. The convicts are Uduak Udo Umoren (48), a pastor and motorcyclist, and his 34-year-old brother, Emmanuel Udo Umoren, a farmer and panel beater, who hail from Adiasim Ikot Ekon …