Legendary wrestler, Yutaka Yoshie, 50, has died just hours after his final match. His health “suddenly deteriorated” after the match and he died after being rushed to the hospital. His death was confirmed by All Japan Pro Wrestling, the company which Yoshie wrestled his final match under. He had been wrestling as part of the Takasaki tournament and died just hours after what would be his final bout. According to the company, the one-time AJPW World …
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Legendary Italian goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon has reportedly been offered a lucrative deal to continue his career in Saudi Arabia. The 45-year-old, who made his professional debut nearly three decades ago currently plays for his boyhood club Parma in Serie B. Buffon still has twelve months remaining on his current deal at the Stadio Ennio Tardini but reports suggest the ‘keeper may have one final move left in his legendary career. A report from Italian publication Corriere dello Sport claims …
Legendary Nigerian guitarist, Berkley Ike Jones of the defunct BLO is dead. Berkeley Ike Jones died weeks to his 72nd birthday. He died last night, June 28, in Asaba where he went for a job. Ike first appeared on the Nigerian music scene in the mid-1960s, as the drummer in the Port Harcourt-based teen pop group The Figures. In 1970, at the end of the Nigerian civil war, he signed on as lead guitarist in the …
Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist, Majekodunmi Fasheke popularly known as Majek Fashek is dead. Though the cause of the music legend’s death is still unclear at the moment, LIB however gathered that he died in a hospital in New York in the late hours of Monday June 1. Cynthia Morgan’s former manager, Joy Tongo who confirmed Majek Fashek’s death wrote on Instagram; Legendary musician, Mr. Majek Fashek has passed on today in New York City. Majek Fashek was a talented man …
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM, has replied Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, who denied her claim that he sent armed men to chase members of the Commission from an office given to them by the Nigerian Communications Commission NCC. Dabiri-Erewa in an interview with SaharaReporters, accused the Minister of sending gunmen to take over her office in February. The Minister in a swift reaction via his Twitter handle, denied the allegation, saying it …