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  • Juju music maestro, General Prince Adekunle dies at 74

    Revered juju icon, General Prince Adekunle, has passed on at the age of seventy-four.

     

    With a career that has lasted for the better part of five decades, Prince Adekunle was known for creating a funky sound that modern juju is based on. His ground-breaking thinking helped juju music stand side-by-side with the older highlife genre.

     

    Although he didn’t reach the heights of the likes of King Sunny Ade and Chief Ebenezer Obey, his heritage is perhaps introducing the world to a child phenomenon- in the person of Shina Peters.

     

    Prince Adekunle took Shina Peters in and fashioned a juju comprising of the two. Sir Shina Adewale as the group was called released a string of records before parting ways. But Prince Adekunle’s influence on Shina Peters was so strong that most people thought the teenager was in son!

     

    Born in 1942, Prince Adewale died after being admitted for a few weeks at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta.

  • Arsenal fan slumps, dies in Imo as club concedes goal to Stoke City

    Residents at Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State were on Saturday shocked, when a man alleged to be an arsenal fan, identified as Dominic Ejimba slumped and died while watching a football match between Arsenal and Stoke City in the ongoing English Premier League season.

    According to sources who narrated the ordeal to Punch, the deceased, a die-hard Arsenal FC supporter, could not bear it when his team conceded a goal midway into the second half of the game. He was watching the encounter at a viewing centre on the Owerri-Okigwe expressway, the source said.

    A Liverpool fan, Chuks Amaku, said, “Dom is dead. He slumped immediately Stoke City scored a goal. Before my uncle, Hezekiah Amaku, could rush him to the hospital, he died.

    “It was unfortunate because all of us were exchanging jokes. Nobody was sensing any danger. We never knew that death was lurking. He had supported Arsenal for a very long time now. He couldn’t had taken that goal very seriously.”

    The deceased’s brother, Francis Onwuka, confirmed the incident to our correspondent on Sunday.

    Onwuka said, “Dom is dead. He slumped while watching Arsenal and Stoke City match on Friday and could not make it to the hospital.

    “It is unfortunate and saddening because he has left a very young wife and three little kids. His demise pains.”

    An Arsenal fan, Barrister Kissinger Ikeokwu, who also confirmed the death, disclosed that Gunners’ fans in the state mourn the painful exit.

    Ikeokwu, who described the Dominic as a great fan of the London-based football club said the thoughts of all Arsenal fans in the state were with the family.

    It was gathered that the deceased, who was in his early 40s, had supported Arsenal from his childhood.

    “He loved Arsenal passionately. He closed his shop to make sure that he watched his darling club play. He could even deny himself food if his team was beaten,” another source said.

    The late Dominic Ejimba hailed from Umufuku-Umunchi in Isiala Mbano LGA of Imo State.

  • Harry Potter star, Robert Hardy dies

    Renowned Harry Potter star, Robert Hardy has passed on.

    The actor died at the age of 91. His children, Emma, Justine and Paul, in a statement announcing his death said: “Gruff, elegant, twinkly, and always dignified, he is celebrated by all who knew him and loved him, and everyone who enjoyed his work. We are immensely grateful to the team at Denville Hall [a London retirement home for actors] for the tender care they gave during his last weeks.”

     

    Hardy was known for his many portrayals of Winston Churchill and as the irascible vet Siegfried Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small.

    As a young actor, Hardy started at the Shakespeare Memorial theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon where, while playing Henry V, he developed what became a lifelong interest in the longbow, later publishing two books on the subject.

    He has also played Cornelius Fudge, in the Harry Potter movies about the boy wizard, but he came to national attention in 1977 when he was offered the role of the mercurial, cantankerous Siegfried in All Creatures Great and Small, based on the memoirs of the Yorkshire vet Alf Wright who used the pseudonym James Herriot.

     

    JK Rowling also shared her memories of working with Hardy on the film adaptations of her Harry Potter books. She wrote: “So very sad to hear about Robert Hardy. He was such a talented actor and everybody who worked with him on Potter loved him.”

     

     

  • Sad! Jeanne Moreau dies at 89

    Sad! Jeanne Moreau dies at 89

    Jeanne Moreau, the actress known for her husky voice which captivated cinema audiences, was found dead at her home in Paris. Her death was confirmed by the office of President Emmanuel Macron. She died at the age of 89.

    Moreau, whom journalists liked to call the thinking moviegoer’s femme fatale, first came to American audiences’ attention in Louis Malle’s 1958 drama “The Lovers.” The film included a lengthy love scene in which Ms. Moreau, playing a bored housewife having an affair, enacted a clearly orgasmic moment, considered scandalous at the time.

     

    Macron, the French president, said in a statement on Monday: “We could say about Jeanne Moreau that a part of cinema legend is gone. But her whole work was precisely about never freezing her art into a mythology, and never locking herself into the respectable status of the ‘great actress.’ She had in her eye a sparkle that deflected deference and inspired insolence, freedom, the turbulence of life that she liked so much and that she will long make us like.”

     

    Jeanne Moreau was born in Paris on Jan. 23, 1928, the daughter of the owner of a Montmartre hotel and restaurant and his British-born wife, a dancer at the Folies Bergère. Ms. Moreau decided to become an actress after seeing her first play, “Antigone,” when she was 15. When she told her father about her ambition, he slapped her.

     

    His opposition was an advantage in her eyes. “It forces you toward excellence,” she told a reporter for the French newspaper Le Figaro in 2001. “All my life I wanted to prove to my father that I was right.”

     

     

    In 1949, she married Jean-Louis Richard, a French actor and screenwriter, with whom she had a son (born the day after their wedding). That marriage lasted two years, as did her second (1977-79), to the American director William Friedkin.

     

    She is survived by her son, Jérôme Richard, an artist.

     

     

  • Adam West ‘Batman’ dies at 88

    Adam West ‘Batman’ dies at 88

    Adam West dies

    Hollywood actor, Adam West, popular for playing Batman in the 1960s TV series, has passed on at the age of 88.He died in Los Angeles on Friday night following a short battle with leukemia.

    His family later paid tribute to him in a statement, saying, “Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight, and aspired to make a positive impact on his fans’ lives.

    “He was and always will be our hero.”

     

    While in Hawaii, West was picked for a role as the sidekick on a children’s show called El Kini Popo Show, which featured a chimp. West later took over as star of the show.[citation needed] In 1959, West moved with his wife and two children to Hollywood, where he took the stage name Adam West. In his autobiography Back to the Batcave, he explains he chose “Adam” simply because he liked the way it looked and sounded with “West”, his middle name.

     

    He appeared in the film The Young Philadelphians which starred Paul Newman He had guest-star roles in a number of television Westerns. On three Warner Bros. westerns which aired on ABC—Sugarfoot, Colt .45, and Lawman—West played the role of Doc Holliday, the frontier dentist and gunfighter. He portrayed Wild Bill Hickok in the episode “Westbound Stage” of the 1960 NBC Western series Overland Trail, with William Bendix and Doug McClure.

     

    He guest-starred on Edmond O’Brien’s syndicated crime drama Johnny Midnight, and soon snagged a supporting role as police sergeant Steve Nelson in the crime drama, The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor. He appeared once on Walter Brennan’s sitcom, The Real McCoys.

     

    On January 10, 1961, West appeared as a young, ambitious deputy who foolishly confronts a gunfighter named Clay Jackson, portrayed by Jock Mahoney, in the episode “The Man from Kansas” of the NBC Western series Laramie.

     

    West made two guest appearances on Perry Mason in 1961 and 1962. His first role was as small-town journalist Dan Southern in “The Case of the Barefaced Witness”. His other role was as folk singer Pete Norland in “The Case of the Bogus Books”.

     

     

  • 10 things you need to know about departed Moji Olaiya

    10 things you need to know about departed Moji Olaiya

    Nollywood actors and stakeholders have expressed shock over the sudden death of popular actress Moji Olaiya. The 42-year-old actor died on Thursday reportedly from Cardiac arrest. In no particular order, TheNewsGuru takes a look at 10 things you need to know about the late actress.

     

    Yinka Quadri, Yomi Fash-Lanso, others mourn late Nollywood actress, Moji Olaiya

     

    1. Moji Olaiya was a cultural ambassador in Ekiti State . In an interview granted in 2015, she said:” I am a cultural ambassador in Ekiti which happens to be a privilege bestowed upon me by the governor. It is a gesture to appreciate and recognize my cultural impact on the youths in the state and the country Nigeria at large”.
    2. Moji Olaiya was born on February 27, 1975, to highlife maestro Victor Olaiya.

     

    1. 18 years after her first child, Adunoluwa, the late actress welcomed another child on March 17, 2017, in Canada.

     

    1. In 2015, the late actress was honoured by the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja for being a role model to Nigerian youths.
    2. She once said she cannot quit acting for her marriage. According to her: I can never quit acting for any marriage. I have said it in many interviews that even when I re-marry, the man will have to love me and my profession”.
    3. In 2014, the actress who was born a Christian converted to Islam.
    4. Olaiya was also known for her roles in films such as “Sade Blade “, “Nkan adun” and “Omo iya meta leyi “.
    5. She loved playing lawn tennis and swimming
    6. In 2003 she was nominated for the Reel Award Best Supporting Actress of the Year, and she won the Best New Actress Award.
    7. She quit her first marriage as a result of domestic violence .In her words:” The marriage was not working so I had to quit. My partner went as far as abusing me so I had to leave to protect myself and my daughter. Yes, domestic violence is just the right word”.

     

     

  • Breaking:Nollywood actor, Pastor Ajidara dies of Kidney failure

    Breaking:Nollywood actor, Pastor Ajidara dies of Kidney failure

    Popular Nollywood actor, Adesina Adesanya a.k.a Pastor Ajidara who was suffering from kidney failure has passed on.

    He died days after his colleagues started raising funds for his treatment. Funds was being raised for him so as to do a kidney transplant.

    According to reports reaching TheNewsGuru, he had earlier been said to be responding to treatment gradually .

    Mr Latin, popular Yoruba actor broke the news on his Instagram page.He said:”And the man died few minutes ago”

    Until his death, Adesina was the President of TAMPAN Ogun state branch.He hails from Ijebu Ode, attended Ogbogbo Baptist Grammar School, Ijebu-Ode and lived in Abeokuta where he died.

     

     

    Late Nollywood stars, Muna Obiekwe and James Uche also lost their lives after batting kidney related diseases.

    May his soul rest in peace.

     

     

  • Assistant Generel Overseer of RCCG, Olu Obanure dies at 65

    Assistant Generel Overseer of RCCG, Olu Obanure dies at 65

    An Assistant General Overseer and Pastor-in-charge of RCCG, (West Coast) of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Olu Obanure is dead.

    His sudden death was announced in a statement signed by the Assistant General Overseer (Admin/Personnel), Pastor Funso Odesola.

    According to the statement, Pastor Obanure died on Tuesday aged 65 years.

    The late Pastor Obanure, until his death, served the RCCG mission in various capacities, such as Special Assistant to the General Overseer (Admin/Personnel); Pastor-in-charge of West Coast with base in Ghana and as the Provincial Pastor, Northern Province 5, with Headquarters in Abuja.

    Kogi-state born Obanure had a Masters Degree in Communications and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan. He his survived by his wife and children.

     

  • Kristyna Martelli dies after undergoing plastic surgery

    Popular Instagram sensation known as Kristyna Martelli passed on after undergoing plastic surgery. Social media has been awash with news of how she did several plastic surgeries to enhance her body parts.

    Confirming the news her friend, Amy Anderssen posted a picture mentioning that she died during another plastic surgery. According to reports, before her death she has had over 100 surgeries on her bum.

    Check out her pictures below

  • Tears flow as Tanzanian singer beaten by hubby dies

    Tanzanian artiste, Kijakazi Pazi Shaban, passed away last week after she was allegedly beaten by her husband.The artist who was once a member of a music group called Kidedea and known by her stage name Zamzam was said to have died at her home in Musoma.

    Her hubby, a police officer, Hamad Ally took Zamzam’s body to a mortuary in Temeke, Dar es Salaam after she yielded to her wounds.

    According to reports from Kenyan’s E-daily ,a source told the Tazanian newspaper, Amani, that Zamzam had in the past sent disgusting photos of her deformed, wounded face to friends, saying she had been cruelly beaten by her husband – and that if anything would happen to her, then her husband should be held accountable.

    He said, “Zamzam’s family asked the husband to allow them sees their relative’s body before he could bury her in Kilimanjaro, of which he agreed.

    “Postmortem performed at a Temeke hospital on Zamzam’s body revealed that the singer succumbed to her injuries following a beating.

    Hamad Ally,Zamzam’s husband was arrested and is being held at Chang’ombe police station as investigations continue.