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September 15, 2022

King Charles will improve ties with Nigeria – Deputy British High Commissioner

Ben Llewellyn-Jones, who is the deputy British high commissioner in Nigeria, says that King Charles III will make the relationship between the UK and Nigeria even stronger. Llewellyn-Jones said this on Tuesday at a news conference. This was after Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8 and the new King, Charles III, took the throne. He... Read More

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Thousands gather to bid Otto Warmbier farewell

Friends, family and community members were lined up as early as 7 a.m. outside Wyoming High School, where Warmbier graduated in 2013. The crowd at the school had reached its 2,500-person capacity and a staging area was set up for those still outside. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) told reporters outside the school, “This process has... Read More

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January 13, 2017

Elderly man ‘comes back to life’ during his funeral

An elderly man left his family, friends and well-wishers in shock after he sat up in his coffin and asked what was going on, during his funeral. The 79-year-old pensioner from south-western China’s Sichuan Province who had been weak “stopped breathing” and had “cold feet”. His son, Huang Mingquan thought he had finally passed away.... Read More

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November 16, 2016

Dasuki’s lawyer denies knowledge of FG’s offer to allow him attend father’s funeral

Ahmed Raji (SAN), a lawyer in the defence team of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), on Wednesday denied knowledge of the offer which the Federal Government claimed to have given the ex-NSA to let him to attend the burial of his late father, Ibrahim Dasuki, held in Sokoto on Tuesday.... Read More

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November 8, 2016

YNaija Says: Mr. President, you should have attended Abu-Ali’s funeral

Dear President Buhari, You came into power in part on a pledge to turn around the fight against Boko Haram, one that had been led to fester for far too long. You invoked the memories of your own fight against the Maitatsine when you were head of state, a fight you personally led, to shatter... Read More

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November 4, 2016

Woman lies in coffin for a day to experience her own funeral

A Brazilian woman, Vera Lucia da Silva, 44 has fulfilled her 14-year dream of experiencing her own funeral. Silva slept in a coffin for a day pretending to be dead. The Brazilian held her funeral service in celebration of the Day of the Dead at a funeral home in north east Brazil with friends and... Read More

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OJB Jezreel to be buried July 4-8 [DETAILS]

The family of late Nigerian music producer and artiste, Babatunde Okungbowa, a.k.a OJB Jezreel has released the schedule for his funeral rites. OJB Jezreel passed away on Tuesday, June 14 from kidney problems which he had been battling with since 2013. The veteran music producer was flown to India for a transplant in 2013, after... Read More

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This is the role Will Smith will play during Muhammad Ali’s funeral

Actor, Will Smith has been named as one of the pallbearers for Muhammad Ali‘s funeral on Friday in his home town of Louisville, Kentucky. Will Smith, who played the boxing legend in the 2001 film, Ali will be joined by former world heavyweight champion, Lennox Lewis and Jerry Ellis – the brother of Jimmy Ellis – Ali’s former... Read More

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Muhammad Ali’s body arrives hometown for funeral (VIDEO)

Ahead of his funeral on Friday, June 11 2016, Muhammad Ali‘s casket arrived in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday. The 74-year-old died in a Phoenix hospital last week Friday after losing out in his battle with Parkinson’s disease. On Saturday, a representative of the family announced plans for Ali’s public memorial service, which... Read More

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‘PDP is dead, Sheriff to perform funeral rites, lying in state on May 21’

“Ali Modu Sheriff is there to perform the final funeral rites of the PDP. The May 21 national convention will mark the lying in state of the PDP which will be forever. We will not stop talking until the right thing is done,” says the former Minister of National Planning, Abubakar Sulaiman. Sulaiman stated this,... Read More

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February 12, 2016

Olubadan finally laid to rest (PHOTOS)

The deceased Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Samuel Odulana‎, has been laid to rest at the Igbo Elerin home of the Odunlana family on Friday, February 12. The funeral service was held at the St. Peter’s Cathedral in Aremo and was well attended by dignitaries from across the country. See below, some pictures of the funeral... Read More

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September 17, 2015

How Pastor stole money, phones from widow at husband’s funeral

Founder and General Overseer of City of Reality Christian Centre, Apostle Nsikak Etim, has been arrested for allegedly robbing a widow at her husband’s burial in Akwa Ibom. Apparently, the minister wasn’t invited to the burial but he showed up anyway and somehow managed to cart away with over half a million naira, two cell... Read More

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See Joke Silva and her beautiful sisters at their mom’s burial

Nollywood star and veteran Joke Silva recently lost her mum and the family buried the late doctor yesterday. See a photo of Silva and her sisters at the funeral:

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There will be a ‘good funeral’ on March 28… and APC hopes to officiate

by Kolapo Olapoju The opposition party would like nothing better than to bury the Peoples Democratic Party. According to All Progressives Congress, there will be a ‘good funeral’ on March 28, and the party hopes to officiate. The National Chairman of APC, John Odigie-Oyegun made the following utterances on Saturday, March 14, while speaking at... Read More

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August 17, 2014

Opinion: The funeral of the Chibok girls

by Ayo Alaba Idowu Let no man bother for now how a young entrepreneur in the city of Lagos managed to be part of the supposedly classified event; Deo Volente, I will share it at the end of my account. “We all gather here in memory of our dearest girls that lost their lives in... Read More

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February 9, 2014

Femi Aribisala: How God spoke to me about his Kingdom

by Femi Aribisala One of those things I questioned was Jesus’ statement to his disciples that many of them would not die until they saw the kingdom of God. But, I thought, all his disciples are dead. According to church history, all but one was martyred. And yet, the kingdom of God has still not... Read More

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December 11, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: On the (purported) slight of Nigeria at Mandela’s funeral

by Pius Adesanmi Perhaps in 2015, you should vote in folks with enough brain power to understand that you cannot buy love and respect with petrobillions? Perhaps you should vote for those who understand that if your citizens are healthy and well fed and gainfully employed, if your infrastructure is world class, if your Universities... Read More

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December 6, 2013

Nelson Mandela’s funeral plans: Daily breakdown of Madiba’s final farewell

For the Xhosa people of South Africa, death is traditionally not something to be talked about or to be planned for, no matter how inevitable or close it may seem. In the final years of his life, secret plans were hammered out between the government, the military and his family as they prepared for a... Read More

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November 14, 2013

#AssociatedCrash: Olatunji Okusanya Jr, son of MIC boss laid to rest in Lagos (PHOTOS)

by Adeola Balogun The remains of Olatunji Okusanya (Jnr), son of the Chief Executive of MIC funeral services, were finally laid to rest yesterday. The late Okusanya died with his father in a plane crash involving an Associated Airlines plane on October 3 and was buried at the Ikoyi Cemetery, Obalende, Lagos. [READ: Associated Airlines... Read More

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November 14, 2013

#AssociatedAirlinesCrash: ‘Deji Falae to be buried today

by Adeola Balogun Ayodeji Falae, the son of Olu Falae, will be buried today, 14 November 2013. ‘Deji died in the fatal Associated Airline plane crash in Lagos on October 3 while accompanying the funeral party of the late former Governor of Ondo, Olusegun Agagu. [READ: Associated Airlines plane carrying late Agagu’s body crashes in... Read More

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November 1, 2013

First Lady Patience Jonathan says one last goodbye to her foster mother at grand funeral in Rivers (PHOTOS)

by Rachel Ogbu The First Lady of Nigeria Patience Jonathan said her final goodbye to her foster mum, who was laid to rest in Okrika Rivers State today. Dignitaries present at the funeral included husband, President Jonathan, VP Namadi Sambo, Governor Goodswill Akpabio, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, Governor Theodore Orji amongst others. Photos: H/T LIB

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September 28, 2013

REVEALED: Shocking tale of how woman conspired to murder her husband with pastor who read a eulogy at his funeral

Betrayal: Teresa Stone conspired to kill her husband of 19-years, Randy Stone (left) after she dreamed of running away with her pastor lover, who was Randy’s best friend and confidant A new investigation by ABC’s 20/20 has revealed the sheer levels of treachery and betrayal that Stone and Pastor David Love went to in order to not... Read More

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Opinion: Igbo funeral requirements and the outstanding 20 wraps of fufu

by Sam Hart In traditional Igbo funerals, the bereaved are saddled with monumental expenses and monetary demands in the name of tradition whenever they want to bury a loved one. As is my practice, I will go straight to the point. Two years ago, I lost my father-in-law. The old man (we all called him Old... Read More

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#StoriesWeHear: Teenager to face the music after stabbing his friend to death for mocking Lionel Richie’s song (PICTURED)

A man has been jailed for 10 years after stabbing his friend to death when he offended him over a Lionel Richie song. Corey Thomas, 19, was offended when Andrew Male, 45, mocked the song Love, Oh Love, then turned it off because it had been played at his grandfather’s funeral. Cardiff Crown Court heard... Read More

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Opinion: A corpse is not just a body – The case of the ‘Boston Bomber’

by Robert M. Sapolskly If you don’t believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter Baume specified that after his death, his skeleton... Read More

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#StoriesWeHear: Mourners shocked as dead man comes back to life at his own funeral

Mourners freaked out when a dead man came back to life at his own funeral. Friends and family “jumped out of their skins” and “ran for their lives” when Brighton Dama Zanthe, 34, started moving in his coffin last Monday. They thought their buddy — who they thought died following a long illness — had... Read More

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Tragic: 22-year-old student who planned her own funeral dies after vowing ‘never to give up’ (PHOTO)

A young woman who faced a life-threatening illness has finally succumbed to a fate she fought so hard against. Jessica Clark, a 22-year-old University of South Carolina student, has died in North Carolina from Primary Pulmonary Hypertension after battling chronic rejection from her second lung-transplant. According to WIS-TV Clark, who had planned her own funeral, had raised... Read More

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“In a way we’re all Thatcherites” – 31 Margaret Thatcher funeral quotes

David Cameron arrives at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral. Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images “In a way we’re all Thatcherites.” – David Cameron on Radio 4 Today programme. “Watching the funeral, finding it hard not to feel we are today somehow burying England.” – tweet from Melanie Phillips, columnist. “We have to think of her children and grandchildren on a day like... Read More

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Insensitive? Couple gets married at the funeral of groom’s uncle (PHOTOS)

Reggie Wade and Monique McMillian-Wade got engaged in a Walmart parking lot, wore gold-and-black T-shirts to their wedding and got married at a funeral. “I didn’t think you could do that at a funeral,” McMillian-Wade said. “I never even heard of that on TV.” Their March 9 nuptials took place during the funeral of Wade’s... Read More

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