Wailing cries and impassioned tears met bulldozers and angry officials in the Chinese province of Jiangxi as a campaign to phase out burials found a very real face.

UYO—A burial ceremony went awry in Udianga Enem, Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, weekend, as cultists, armed with sophisticated weapons, invaded the ceremony, killing one of the mourners.

The Tor Tiv, Professor James Ayatse, yesterday, advised his subjects against high bride price, saying that the practice was hindering young people from settling down.

A Community leader, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, has criticised the preservation of corpses and the high cost of burial rites in Igbo land.

Abeokuta – The Ogun government has directed that all markets and public schools in the Remo Zone of the state be closed on Wednesday for the burial of late Chief HID Awolowo. This is contained in a release signed in Abeokuta on Monday by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr Taiwo Adeoluwa. It […]

The governor of Kogi State, Capt Idris Wada will today lead the government delegation from the state to the burial of the former governor of the state and candidate of the APC in the inconclusive governorship poll in the state, Prince Abubakar Audu.

According to the family insider Feyi spoke to, “the young man said that once they got to the tarmac before boarding and once he sighted the plane, what struck him was the seemingly very old look of the plane”. Continuing, the source narrated: “Feyi said he didn’t like the looks of the plane. “He also said but for the importance and significance of the trip, his inner sense didn’t feel comfortable boarding the plane.

“In fact, Feyi said he told another survivor, Femi Akinsanya, that the plane looked too old and he didn’t feel like boarding.

“ But Feyi said he was told not to get himself worked up needlessly since this was not going to be his first time aboard a plane neither would this be the first old-looking plane that he would board.