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Nigerian singer Oluwatosin Ajibade, popularly known as Mr Eazi, has lost his mother, Ifeoma Edith Ajibade. The artist shared the heartbreaking news on Instagram today, March 6, alongside a touching tribute and a photo of them together. He wrote, “Thank you, Mummy For your strength, your sacrifices, your unwavering faith. For raising us with love, …
Australian tennis great Fred Stolle, who won two Grand Slam singles titles in the 1960s, has died at the age of 86. Stolle won the French Open in 1965, the US Open in 1966 and reached the final in six other Grand Slams, including three at Wimbledon. He also won 10 Grand Slam men’s doubles …
Two persons, the driver and his motor boy, yesterday lost their lives when a tanker, carrying petroleum product, exploded in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. The incident, which occurred at the New Garage area, Oluyole Local Government Area of the state, has thrown the entire people in the neighborhood into a state of mourning. At press …
BENIN CITY— THE Edo State Police Command, yesterday, confirmed the kidnapping of a Catholic priest identified as Rev. Father Philip Ekeli and a seminarian, Peter Andrew, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Ivukwa, Etsako East Local Government Area of the state. A statement by the Police Public Relations Officer, Moses Yamu, said the incident took place …
A British ferry leaving Zeebrugge, Belgium, capsizes, drowning 188 people, on March 6, 1987. Shockingly poor safety procedures led directly to this deadly disaster. Lord Justice Barry Sheen, an investigator of the accident, later said of it, from top to bottom, the body corporate was affected with the disease of sloppiness. The Herald of Free Enterprise ferry was …
After a string of adverse legal decisions, Napster, Inc. begins its death spiral on March 6, 2001, when it starts to comply with a Federal court order to block the transfer of copyrighted material over its peer-to-peer music-sharing network. In the year 2000, the new company had created something of a music-fan’s utopia—a world in which nearly …
On March 5, 1929, David Dunbar Buick, the founder of the Buick Motor Company, dies in relative obscurity and meager circumstances at the age of 74. In 1908, Buick’s company became the foundation for the General Motors Corporation; however, by that time David Buick had sold his interest in the company. Buick was born in Arbroath, Scotland, …
Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union since 1924, dies in Moscow. Ioseb Dzhugashvili was born in 1878 in Georgia, then part of the old Russian empire. The son of a drunk who beat him mercilessly and a pious washerwoman mother, Stalin learned Russian, which he spoke with a heavy accent all his life, in an Orthodox Church-run school. …
Tributes have been pouring in from top athletes, officials and stakeholders following the death of former national athletics coach, Harrison Momoh, who passed away last Saturday, in Ilorin, Kwara State, The TodayPriceNG reports. Athletics Federation of Nigeria President, Chief Tonobok Okowa, has led the athletics fraternity in mourning the 83-year-old coach who retired from coaching …
Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, the head of Murder, Inc., is executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York. Lepke was the leader of the country’s largest crime syndicate throughout the 1930s and was making nearly $50 million a year from his various enterprises. His downfall came when several members of his notorious killing squad turned into witnesses for the …