British screenwriter and director Terence Davies, known for films including Distant Voices, and Still Lives, has died at the age of 77. He established himself with a trilogy of films - Children, Madonna and Child, and Death and Transfiguration - in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Born and raised in Liverpool, his work often has an autobiographical element. His manager confirmed in a statement that he died peacefully at […]
The granddaughter of South Africa’s first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, Zoleka, has passed away at 43 after battling metastatic cancer. The report says she was admitted to the hospital last Monday for treatment but succumbed to the disease on the eve of her grandmother’s birthday, surrounded by loved ones and friends. In a heartfelt statement shared on Instagram, a family spokesperson confirmed her passing on Monday evening. Zoleka had […]
Twelve-year-old Adebola Akin-Bright, whose small part of his intestines was missing while undergoing treatment has died. The PUNCH learnt that he died on Tuesday evening at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja. According to PUNCH a source close to the family of the deceased said, the boy developed complications and was rushed to the intensive care unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital where he was thereafter […]
Former football coach Barry Bennell has died in prison, aged 69, in the United Kingdom while serving a 34-year sentence for sexual offences, the Ministry of Justice said. A spokesperson for the prison said on Monday that: “Prisoner Barry Bennell died at HMP Littlehey on 16 September 2023. As with all deaths in custody, the prisons and probation ombudsman will investigate.” The serial paedophile, who was suffering from cancer, was […]
Mohamed Al Fayed, the former Harrods boss whose son Dodi was killed in a car crash alongside Diana, Princess of Wales, has died aged 94. Born in Egypt, he built a business empire in the Middle East before moving to the UK in the 1970s. However, he never realized his ambition to gain a passport for his adopted country. BBC reported that he spent his later years […]
A personnel of the Federal Road Safety Commission has been Killed while three others sustained injuries in an accident involving an FRSC tow Truck and a trailer along the Karu -Keffi expressway. In a statement by the FRSC Public Education Officer, Assistant Corps Marshal, Bisi Kazeem in Abuja, the towing truck was removing a trailer that broke down on Friday when the unfortunate accident happened and the driver of the […]
15-year-old Chinecherem Promise Ibeh, who scored 9As in her WAEC examination has thrown her family into mourning by her sudden death days after getting a scholarship to study in the United Kingdom (UK). The young brilliant girl, who was from Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia state won a scholarship to study Software Engineering at a UK university. The sad incident was made known in a Facebook post shared by Ofoke Bright Ikenna who claimed that Chinecherem was poisoned. This […]
Paul Reubens, the US actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon through films and TV shows, has died. Reubens, 70, died on Sunday night after a six-year struggle with cancer that he did not make public, his publicist said in a statement. “Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years,” Reubens said in a statement released with the announcement […]
The Hong Kong-born singer Coco Lee, beloved across Asia as the voice of Disney’s Mulan in Mandarin and for her soaring vocals, has died. The 48-year-old had suffered from depression in recent years, “but her condition deteriorated drastically over the last few months”, Coco’s older sisters, Carol and Nancy, said in an Instagram post. They said she was admitted to a Hong Kong hospital on Sunday after attempting to take […]
