Lagos - Veteran highlife musician,  Sunday Akanite, popularly known as Oliver De Coque has died at a Lagos Hospital over the weekend. Although cause of his sudden death was not disclosed, but sources close to the family of the highlife musician said he had not been feeling well for some time now.

According to his son, his father was hale and hearty. “My father was not sick, he said he was going to rest and that was all. I still cannot believe that he is dead.”

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Ibadan - The former strongman of Ibadan politics, Chief Lamidi Adedibu, was committed to mother earth at exactly 11.35 a.m, yesterday, at his Molete, Ibadan residence, where for years he installed and pulled down governors and politicians.

It was a day the ancient city of Ibadan stood still. It was also a day Alhaji Lateef Akinsola,  known as Tokyo, Adedibu’s die-hard loyalist and NURTW State Chairman directed commercial buses, taxis and commercial motorcyclists (Okada) to withdraw their services between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. in honour of the late politician.

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Ibadan - Self-styled strongman of Ibadan politics and a leading figure in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Lamidi Ariyibi Adedibu on Wednesday passed on at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.

He died at 3.47 pm, some 40 minutes after he was rushed to the hospital. Before his eventual passage, the octogenarian was rumoured to be seriously ill, though he often denied it. The late Adedibu had for sometime now battled the undisclosed ailment before he eventually succumbed on Wednesday. He is to be buried on Thursday according to Islamic rites.

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Lagos - Alhaji Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, business mogul, philanthropist and the Baba Adinni of Nigeria, died in the early hours of today, family sources told the News Agency of Nigeria.

Folawiyo whose death came 10 days to his 80th birthday., was one of the icons of Nigerian industry and a pillar of Islam.

Born in Lagos on June 16, 1928, to a successful Lagos merchant, the young Folawiyo attended Olowogbowo Methodist Primary School, Lagos (1934 1941) and Ilesha Grammar School, Ilesha.

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Ace Musician turned evangelist, Sonny Okosuns, has passed on to glory at 61. He died Saturday in Howard Hospital, Washington, D.C, after a long running battle against cancer of the colon.

Several Nigerian musicians such as Onyeka Onwenu, Oliver De-Coque, Fatai Rolling Dollar, Prince Wadada, and Dele Abiodun, all paid glowing tribute to the icon.
Known for his unrepentant defense of the June 12, 1993 mandate of the late Social Democratic Party presidential candidate, Chief M.K.O Abiola, Evangelist Okosuns was also an outspoken supporter of the last Chief Olusegun Obasanjo administration.

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