Tag: Mother

  • Popular dancer, Kaffy loses mother

    Popular dancer, Kaffy loses mother

    Revered Nigerian dancer and choreographer, Kafayat Shafau-Ameh better known as Kaffy, has lost her mum. She passed on at the age of 82. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAmARV2hr7Z/   Kaffy made this known on Monday via her Instagram page. Sharing a video of herself dancing with her late mother, Kaffy wrote: ”Mama has gone to Rest! #82”. Kaffy’s dancing…

  • It’s difficult combining marriage and motherhood – Tonto Dikeh

    It’s difficult combining marriage and motherhood – Tonto Dikeh

    Nollywood actress Tonto Dikeh has said that combining the tasks of marriage and motherhood is a difficult in today’s society. The single mother of one made this known on Sunday, May 10 in commemoration of Mother’s Day celebration. Tonto wrote in a long caption that Mother’s Day “is a day to salute the strength of…

  • Mama Buratai: Exit of a mother who gave her son to the nation

    Mama Buratai: Exit of a mother who gave her son to the nation

    By Abubakar Tsav Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai on Tuesday, lost his mother, Kakah Hajiya Hauwa Yusuf Buratai after a brief illness at her home in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The death of the Buratai matriarch, is coming two years after the patriarch of the Buratai family, Alhaji Yusuf…

  • Adieu, Mama Buratai in heavenly bliss!

    Adieu, Mama Buratai in heavenly bliss!

    By Adam Biu “But let them sleep Lord, and I mourn a space; For, if above all these, my sins abound, ‘Tis late to ask abundance of thy grace, When we are there. Here on this lowly ground, Teach me how to repent; for that’s as good As if thou hadst sealed my pardon with…

  • Rashidi Yekini’s mom not abandoned, Son’s lawyer

    Mr Jubril Mohammed, an Ibadan based lawyer and legal adviser to late Super Eagles’ striker, Rashidi Yekini, on Friday stated that the star player’s mother never lacked any care. Mohammed made the remark during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), while reacting to speculations that his former client’s mother had been abandoned…

  • Buhari’s aide loses mother

    The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Job Creation and Youth Employment, Mr. Afolabi Imoukhuede, has lost his mum, Mrs. Olubunmi Olayinka Imoukhuede, nee Olusoga. She was aged 75. Announcing the death via a statement by the family of late Chief Joseph Enaifoghe Imoukhuede, whose patriarch, late Joseph, was the first non-Yoruba permanent secretary…

  • Driver sentenced to death for murdering employer’s mother

    Driver sentenced to death for murdering employer’s mother

    Justice Mojisola Dada of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, on Monday, sentenced a driver, Olalekan Hameed, to death for killing his employer’s 76-year-old mother, Jolasun Okunsanya. Justice Dada gave the judgment in a virtual court session approved by the state Chief Judge, Justice Kazeem Alogba, in line with the Lagos State Judiciary remote hearing…

  • JUST IN: Adamawa Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri loses mother

    JUST IN: Adamawa Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri loses mother

    Hajia Fatimah Umar Badami, the mother of Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa state, has passed on. She was 68 years old. According to a statement from the Adamawa State Government, Hajiya Fatimah Badami died Wednesday at the Federal Medical Centre, Yola, after a protracted illness. The statement signed by the Director-General of Media and Communication,…

  • Buhari mourns as DSS DG loses mother in Kano

    Buhari mourns as DSS DG loses mother in Kano

    Hajiya Kareematu Abubakar Bichi, the mother of the Director-General of the Department of States Services, DSS, Yusuf Magaji Bichi, is dead. President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday commiserated with Bichi, the DG of DSS, on the death of his mother Hajiya Kareematu Abubakar Bichi. In a tribute to the late community leader and matriarch, who died…

  • Graphic Photo: Mysterious son stabs mother, sets self ablaze in Imo

    Graphic Photo: Mysterious son stabs mother, sets self ablaze in Imo

    The Imo State Police Command has arrested a man, Johnbosco Ejiogu, for stabbing his mother and then setting their home ablaze. According to a statement by the police command, the incident occurred at Umudagu Mbieri, Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state on Friday. State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Orlando Ikeokwu said that Ejiogu…