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  • Nollywood actor, Tafa Oloyede is dead

    Nollywood actor, Tafa Oloyede is dead

    Nollywood actor, John Adewuni Adewoye, popularly known as Tafa Oloyede is dead. He was 69 years old.

    Osun state Secretary of the Theatre Arts and Motion Picture Producers Association of Nigeria, Ademola Oyedokun broke the news of Tafa’s death on Tuesday.

    Tafa, who hailed from Ede, died in his Osogbo home on Tuesday.

    Born on 19 November 1952, he would have clocked 70 this year.

    He began acting in 1974 and had his tutelage under late Oyin Adejobi.

    He featured in many movies such as ‘Jaiyesimi’, ‘Ayanmo’, ‘Ekuro Oloja’, ‘Orogun’, ‘Akanji Oniposi.’

    He is survived by wife and children.

    Tributes poured in for Oloyede on Tuesday night.

    Adeyemi Olabode an OAP with Rave 91.7 Fm, Osogbo wrote on Facebook:

    “I’m yet to come to terms with the reality that I won’t see or hear from you again Daddy! You love me and will always check on me. You are a devoted fan who loves what I do on radio and will always pray for me. You will always remind me of your birthday for shout-out. Apart from WhatsApp communication, it pains me that I haven’t spoken with you this year. Ahh Baba rere is no more! Rest in peace Baba Tafa Oloyede”.

    Lanre Azeez of King Sunny Ade Ariya Kingdom wrote: Another great Star in make-believe world has left the orbit, creating a space hardly could be filled. One of the greatest and earliest thespians who started from childhood till old age in stage-drama-movie in Nigeria’.

  • BREAKING: Oti Yan Yan crooner, Slim Joe is dead

    BREAKING: Oti Yan Yan crooner, Slim Joe is dead

    Popular singer, Joshua Olonitan popularly known as Slim Joe is dead.

    The 30-year-old ‘O ti yanyan’ crooner whose hit song dominated the airwaves in 2009, died Sunday, January 2, 2022, after a prolonged battle with kidney disease.

    The versatile entertainer, who hailed from Odo-Ayedun in Ikole Local Government Area of Ekiti State, in May 2021 called for help from well-meaning Nigerians.

    Slim Joe had appealed for support in raising N15million for surgery to which would help him rise to his feet again after he was diagnosed with kidney failure and had been on dialysis for some time.

    His death was confirmed by his colleague, Raymond Gbaji, via his Facebook post, where he penned a touching tribute to him.

  • SAD! Angela Kukawski, manager for the Kardashians found dead

    SAD! Angela Kukawski, manager for the Kardashians found dead

    Angela Kukawski, a Los Angeles-based business manager, who worked with the Kardashians and Nicki Minaj, is dead.

    TMZ reports that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said Kukawski, 55, was found dead on December 23.

    Her lifeless body was found inside her car in Simi Valley, California after she was declared missing the day before.

    Kukawski’s demise was ruled a homicide by the Ventura County medical examiner’s Office.

    Jason Barker, her boyfriend, has been arrested and charged with her murder.

    The police claimed Barker killed Kukawski at her Sherman Oaks home, put her body in the car, and drove to Simi.

    While the police have begun an investigation on the case, it was also revealed that the murder weapon was a knife.

    The Kardashian and Jenner family was quoted as confirming the development in a statement.

    “Angela was truly the best. She cared about every one of us and made things happen that were impossible,” the statement read.

    “She will be greatly missed and we send our sincere condolences to her family and loved ones during this most difficult time.”

    Minaj took to her Instagram story to write: “Hardest working, most reliable, sweetest person you could ever know. You didn’t deserve this, Angela. My heart is breaking for your children. Rest in peace.”

    Kukawski was a mother of five and, according to friends, was “beloved” in the industry.

    It was gathered that she also worked with such clients as Kanye West and Offset and, as well as the estate of Tupac Shakur.

     

  • Five dead, two wounded in US shooting- Police

    Five dead, two wounded in US shooting- Police

    The death toll from a shooting spree across multiple locations in Colorado, which ended when the gunman was himself shot dead, has risen to five, police said Tuesday.

    The trail of shooting began around 5:00 pm on Monday and unfolded across at least four different locations in the cities of Denver and Lakewood, said police, who had initially put the death toll at four.

    Two women were killed, and a man was wounded, in the first location in Denver, police said, with another man shot dead outside his residence.

    The gunman then travelled to neighbouring Lakewood, where he fatally shot another man in the Lucky 13 tattoo parlour and wounded another individual.

    Working off information gathered from the previous assaults, Lakewood officers were able to identify the shooter as he moved locations.

    The shooter entered a shopping centre where he fatally shot a female employee, police said.

    He then encountered a police officer in the shopping centre who ordered him to drop his weapon. In the subsequent exchange of fire, the officer was wounded but shot dead the suspect.

    The gunman was “pronounced dead on the scene”, said Lakewood police spokesman John Romero. He added that the police officer was “doing well” but that she would need further surgery.

    The shooter’s motivations were unknown, but police said that “based on what we know, it does appear that the offender was targeting specific people.”

    Two weapons were recovered by police.

    Gun violence is a huge problem in the United States, and gun control advocates say the issue is fueled by the prevalence of firearms as well as by relatively lax gun laws.

     

  • SAD! World’s oldest Test cricketer Eileen Ash is dead

    SAD! World’s oldest Test cricketer Eileen Ash is dead

    Eileen Ash, the oldest-ever Test cricketer, has died at the age of 110, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Saturday.

    Ash, a right-arm seam bowler, who made her Test debut against Australia in 1937, represented England seven times either side of World War II, retiring in 1949.

    She worked with British intelligence during the war and played golf until the age of 98.

    Ash was honoured by being chosen to ring the bell at Lord’s before England Women’s victory in the 2017 World Cup final.

    ECB managing director of women’s cricket Clare Connor said: “Our sport owes so much to its pioneers and Eileen was one of them. I am deeply sad to be saying goodbye to her today.

    “(England captain) Heather (Knight) and I went to visit Eileen about six months before the 2017 Women’s World Cup — she was 105 at the time — and it was one of the most remarkable experiences.

    “Eileen taught Heather yoga, we played snooker, we drank cups of tea and we leafed through newspapers and scrapbooks celebrating Eileen’s time as a player in the 1930s and 1940s.

    “She regaled us with some amazing stories, including how she came to have her bat signed by Sir Donald Bradman at a French restaurant in Sydney in 1949.”

     

  • BREAKING: Former supreme court judge, Babalakin is dead

    BREAKING: Former supreme court judge, Babalakin is dead

    Bolarinwa Oyegoke Babalakin, an influential judge, who retired as a Supreme Court justice, is dead

    TheNewsGuru gathered that he passed on at the age of 94

    Mr Babalakin, the father of billionaire businessman and lawyer, Wale Babalakin, who was called to the London Bar in the late 1950s, died on Saturday morning.

    Prayers will be held for him today at his hometown of Gbongan in Osun State.

    Details later…

  • SAD! Malcolm X’s daughter, Malikah found dead

    SAD! Malcolm X’s daughter, Malikah found dead

    Malikah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, the late civil rights leader, has been found dead.

    According to reports, Malikah’s body was discovered in Brooklyn where she was found face-down in her living room.

    Police said the 56-year-old was found at around 4:30 pm unresponsive in her home and later declared dead.

    According to TMZ, law enforcement sources said her demise didn’t appear to be suspicious.

    Malikah’s passing comes less than a week after Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, two men convicted of her father’s 1965 murder, were exonerated after several decades of police investigations.

    Malikah was one of six of Malcolm X’s children with his wife Betty Shabazz.

    Malcolm X was 39 when he was assassinated in New York in 1965.

    The activist was preparing to address the OAAU (Organisation of Afro-American Unity) in Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom when someone in the 400-person audience yelled, “Ni***r! Get your hand outta my pocket!”.

    As Malcolm X and his guards tried to repress the disturbance, a man was said to have rushed and shot him once in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun while two other men charged the stage by firing semi-automatic handguns.

    Malcolm X was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

    An autopsy identified 21 gunshot wounds to the chest, left shoulder, arms, and legs.

     

  • Missing Vanguard reporter, Tordue Salem found dead in Abuja

    Missing Vanguard reporter, Tordue Salem found dead in Abuja

    A reporter with Vanguard Newspapers declared to be missing in October has been found dead in Abuja.

    Tordue Henry Salem, based in the nation’s capital city covered the House of Representatives beat for the newspaper.

    As at press time, details surrounding the recovery of his corpse was sketchy.

    Meanwhile, some suspects have reportedly been arrested in connection with his disappearance

    He was last seen around Total filling station, close to the Force headquarters, Abuja, on October 13, 2021.

    One of them is identified as Prince Enyenihi, who was said to have contacted the journalist’s wife to demand a N100 million ransom.

    “If you don’t pay, Tordue will be killed in seven days. For more information, call this number,” a text message from Enyenihi to Salem’s wife reportedly said.

    The House of Representatives had called on the Nigerian security agencies to immediately launch an investigation into the whereabouts of the missing journalist, Tordue Salem, and give a report to the house in two weeks.
    This was made known in a motion raised on Tuesday by Ndudi Elumelu, the minority leader of the house.

    In the motion, Elumelu raised concerns that the sudden disappearance of the journalist is “an extension of the deteriorating state of insecurity in the nation’s capital which questions the efficiency of the country’s security operatives”.

    His colleagues in Abuja last month protested to the Fprce Headquarters to press home the demand for his whereabouts.

  • Former South Africa President, De Klerk is dead

    Former South Africa President, De Klerk is dead

    Former South African President, Frederik Willem De Klerk, the last leader under apartheid and a key actor in the country’s transition to democracy, is dead.

    His foundation made the announcement.

    “Former President FW de Klerk died peacefully at his home in Fresnaye earlier this morning following his struggle against mesothelioma cancer,” the FW de Klerk Foundation said in a statement on Thursday.

    He died at the age of 85.

     

    Together with Nelson Mandela, De Klerk oversaw the end of white-minority rule in South Africa.

    ..Details later

  • [DETAILS]: How Pastor Taiwo Odukoya’s wife, Nomthi battle cancer before death

    [DETAILS]: How Pastor Taiwo Odukoya’s wife, Nomthi battle cancer before death

    The founder of a Nigerian leading religious centre, Fountain of Life Bible Church, Taiwo Odukoya’s wife, Nomthi Odukoya, has been confirmed to have died after he lost the battle with cancer in the country.

    Rosemary, a South African of Zulu tribe, died barely two years after contracting cancer disease and battled to survive the ailment before she finally succumbed to the disease and passed on.

    The death of the cleric’s second wife ended the over 10 years marriage which Pastor Odukoya ventured into five years after his first wife, Bimbo, passed on.

    The said development was announced on Tuesday through a statement released on the church’s official social media handle and with an appeal that Nigerians pray for the family.

    According to the statement, the wife of the cleric, after being diagnosed with cancer had been engaging in activities that could assist her to overcome the ailment.

    “With deep regret and gratitude to God, we have to announce the passing of our Senior Pastor’s wife, Pastor Nomthi Odukoya. She battled cancer for the better part of 2 years, she stood on the Word of God, and she fought.

    “We loved her with all our heart, but who are we to fight with the will of God. The truth is, at one point in our lives, we all will have to say goodbye. So for now, till we meet again in glory, Goodbye Pastor Nomthi,” the statement added.

    She died about two months to their 12th wedding anniversary, a marriage which nuptial not was finally tied at the Civic Centre in Lagos State and had produced two children.

    Speaking on the marriage, the deceased had disclosed that she did not envision getting married to a pastor and getting married to a foreigner, saying all she had hoped for was to marry a fellow South African.

    “I did not know I was going to serve God in this capacity. I was against it because I thought pastors were responsible for peoples’ lives. I believed it was a burden too much to bear and I did not want to be held accountable if people did not live according to the gospel of Christ. I felt serving God and supporting the gospel in whatever way I could, was enough. I did not see myself in a leadership position in a country other than South Africa for that matter,” she added.

    It would be recalled that the cleric lost his first wife, Pastor Bimbo Odukoya on December 10, 2005, as a result of the Sosoliso plane crash.

    And five years later, 2010, Pastor Odukoya married Rosemary Nomthi, a South African, to fill the vacuum left by the first wife that died in the ill-fated plane.