The year 2o14 began gracefully and in a few days, we will
soon bid her farewell. What will be left of her are
memories; blissful or not, they remain in our heart. The
awfully painful once are; having to say good-by the world
most renowned, skilled icons and future dreamers. At
such moment one wonders at how much death needs to
stop being death?
We will remember and mention a few of them, and we ask
that you light a candle in their honour and let it’s glowing
flame bring you hope.

Komla Afeke Dumor , a Ghanaian journalist who worked for
BBC World News was the main presenter of ‘ Focus on
Africa’ . His death was so throbbing and shocking to his
fans, friends and family. January 2014 will be remembered
when his name is mentioned. According to BBC reports,
he had suffered a heart attack. Mr. Komla Dumor died at
age 41

Nollywood actress Ijeoma Okorie was confirmed dead on
2nd Feb, 2014. She died while delivering her twin babies,
her pedigree is not just that of a screen goddess but a
dedicated/adept member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria
(AGN), Rivers State chapter. Initially, Ijeoma Okorie was
mistaken for Angelina Okorie, which went more viral as
the Nollywood star Angelina Okorie responded to the
news to ascertain prove of life and clear the air. Sadly,
Ijioma Okorie died alongside her twins.


A 29 year old Accounting graduate Juliet Igbinoba died in
a fatal car accident on Monday 17 of March along
Lagos-Benin road. Juliet was said to be planning her
wedding to her love before the awful incident took place.

10 colleagues of Mine. May their soul est in Perfect peace

More stories and pics after the cut...




17-year-old student of Bowen University, Opeyemi
Odusanya was killed by some cult members in Lagos on
Feburary 3, 2014. She was stabbed to death for allegedly
rejecting sexual advances from some youths in the area
and also as she was insinuated “being too proud.”
According to reports, the deceased went to buy airtime for
her phone, as she was returning, a group of boys trailed
and entered the house with her. Opeyemi was alone at
home when the boys attacked her, they instructed her to
turn on the generator (obviously to douse every intent to
call for help or scream.)
It was believed that they wanted to rape the girl, and she
must have put up a severe struggle as the whole house
was scattered. The guys subsequently stabbed her in the
stomach several times and ripped out her intestines.
After killing her, they took her phone and the keys to her
parents’ SUV and made away with it. Opeyemi’s phone to
send a text message to her mother, explaining why she
had been killed. The text read “Your child has been proud.
We have been toasting her, but she has refused to accept.
We have killed her to teach a lesson. We have also driven
your car away, if you want your car back, come to Lakas
Hotel or Cele Bus Stop around Mile 2 to pick it up. If we
see policemen around, we will kill everybody.”
After she read the text, she returned home to meet her
daughter’s lifeless body, By all indications, the girl was
not raped because her clothes were intact, “the weapon of
murder had been recovered,” said the police but the
suspect are still at-large.

Former Director General of the National Agency for Food
and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and ex
minister of Information, Professor Dora Akunyili, died on
June 7, 2014 in an India hospital where she was receiving
treatment for cancer.
Akunyili took her medical check-ups abroad seriously as
she was given an all well result most often. Early 2013
she was energetic and looked robust, even took up
another government job as the Minister of Information and
Communications. On July 13, 2013 something strange
happened to her; she was preparing to travel to the United
States to receive an award, (the following day was her
59 birthday.) Then she fell ill, became physically weak
and had severe pains. She decided to go ahead with her
trip and attend to her health in the United States. She did
have a check, cancer was detected. Ofcourse, that was no
good news but confirmed the 1998 diagnosis was correct
even though at the point of surgery was considered false.
Afterwards, everything changed because cancer seems to
have known end. She became seriously ill, and was in the
hospital for months and returned to Nigeria this year, and
her last public appearance was at the National Conference
in Abuja. Soon pictures of a frail-looking Akumyili went
viral on the internet. The Cable could not ascertain the
type of cancer, but there were several reports pinpointing
to cervical cancer, although they were other claims that it
was ovarian. Globally, cervical cancer is the second most
common and the fifth deadliest cancer in women
according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). She
died at age 59.

Music artist Blessing Eloho aka Bbee died on Sunday July
27th after a brief illness just days after she returned from
a trip to the US. The Delta state born, Lagos State
University graduate was only 30 years old.
Bbee was born into the family Eruoghos from Ughelli
North LGA of Delta. She has a background in Economics
from the Lagos State University. Bbee discovered her love
for singing as a little child in the church kids choir,
afterward she moved into the adult choir even as a little
girl and was referred to as “golden voice” because she
was that unique. Music grew in her, which led her in
joining a singing band in high school and then to music
idol she was known to be.

Multiple award-winning gospel singer, Kefee Don
Momoh died on Friday 13 August, 2014. She passed on
in the early hours, after being in coma for weeks in an
undisclosed American hospital.
The singer, who was reportedly pregnant, fell into a coma
while on a flight to Chicago, in the United States of
America. The plane had to make an emergency landing in
Los Angeles so she could receive medical attention.
Watch her video a day before she fell into coma
‘So sad, this has got to be one of the saddest
moments in my life. There should be some
corrections though. She was on a flight from Los
Angeles to Chicago, but she collapsed and was
taken to a hospital in Las Vegas. She died in Vegas
but she didn’t die of pregnancy complications. I
was with her the day before she collapsed. She
had been in Los Angeles already. She performed at
Gospel Faith Mission House of Testimony on
Sunday. The next day, Monday, she was shooting a
music video in Hollywood, CA. I was one of her
camera guys. She seemed fine that day, and I
could see nothing wrong with her at all. She was
happy, smiling, dancing, laughing and enjoying
herself.

The long standing Nollywood actor Clems Onyeka was
killed by over 8 suspected armed robbers who stormed
Asaba in a commando-style on 14th October, 2014. They
reportedly trailed a bullion van from the Benin/Asaba
Express way through the Summit road and intercepted it
along the DBS road before U&I Foundation, where they
engaged the police escort team in a fierce gun battle.
A stray bullet was said to have hit the Nollywood actor
who died instantly at a location set where he was earning
a living or following his passion for film making, he was
just 37 years old.
This is Claims Onyeka’s message to someone 2 weeks
before the incident:
“My brother, I enjoy your column so much but
nothing has ever been done on me yet, or are you
waiting until I am dead before you write about
me?” he queried and got replied, “Clems give me
something good to write about you and I will do
it”.

Joan Rivers was a regular panelist on E!’s Fashion Police
and co-starred in a reality series with her daughter
Melissa on WE, called Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?
A prolific stand-up comic, she is perhaps most widely
known for her acerbic (and occasionally controversial)
red carpet interviews and talking heads stints for TV
Guide and E!, often accompanied by Melissa. Rivers’
breakout role was as a guest on The Tonight Show in
1965.
Rivers was briefly placed into a medically-induced coma
in late August following complications from vocal cord
surgery, when she stopped breathing. After being brought
of the coma, she was placed on life support. She was
treated at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital and was taken
out of intensive care and moved to a private room Sept. 3.
According to a New York State agency, doctors who
performed the procedure that ultimately led to the death of
Joan Rivers messed up by not following the proper
procedure before administering a huge amount of the
anaesthetic Propofol.
Propofol is a strong anaesthetic that’s used for surgery
which is given by IV and should only be administered by a
medical professional trained in its use. It takes effect in a
matter of seconds.
Meanwhile a computer at the clinic has it recorded that
the late comedienne was administered a huge dose, and a
staff member admitted that she made a mistake entering
the dosage, and input more than double the amount that
should have been given to Joan.
It’s so sad that Joan’s death could have been avoided;
she died on 4th September, 2014, at age 81.

Inspirational singer and the second half of Oshadipe
Twins died at 6:30 am on Friday, October 3, 2014,
following complaints of chest and heart pains.
Insiders claimed that ever since she had a baby boy in
July 2013, she had often complained of chest and heart
pains – but doctors couldn’t detect exactly what the
problem was.
Series of tests, home and abroad, failed to diagnose the
ailment. A few days back the pain worsened, and she was
hospitalized, and eventually discharged with no
conclusive solution to her illness. In the early hours of
Friday, she started complaining of same chest pains and
while she was being rushed back to the hospital…she
died!

This list won't be complete without MYLES MUNROE
Prolific bestselling author and internationally renowned
preacher and business coach, Dr. Myles Munroe of
Bahamas Faith Ministries International and his wife Mrs.
Ruth Ann Munroe, died in a plane crash on 9th November
2014 in the Bahamas. The plane, a Lear 36 Executive Jet,
reportedly struck a crane at the Grand Bahama Ship Yard,
exploding on impact and crashing onto the ground near a
junkyard area.

MANY MORE PASSED AWAY BUT THATS THE FEW THAT STILL REMAIN EVERGREEN IN MOST PEOPLE'S HEARTS...
MAY THIER SOULS REST IN PEACE

RIP

Rest in peace is hard to say - skyb

May their souls rest in peace, and to all those who died by BH suicide bomb attacks and village raids, those that died in the australian cafe hostage/terror incidence. RIP.

Charles Bruce Chukuma, popularly called Chaz B by his radio audience, hails from Delta State, Nigeria. With over 20 years of experience in the Hospitality Management Industry of the United States of America, Chaz B consults on management turn around in the hotel and entertainment sectors in Nigeria. An ex-student of Kings College, Lagos, he holds an Advanced Business Management Certificate from North Technical Education Centre in Florida and an Associate of Science Degree in Hotel, Travel and Tourism Management from Miami Dade Community College (North), Florida, USA. Before he left Nigeria in 1979, Chaz B had moved within the entertainment world. He worked with his cousin, Ben Bruce, former Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), back in 1983 when Ben owned the Fantasy Night Club in Yaba, Lagos. He returned to the entertainment business in the United States of America running a limousine and bodyguard service catering just to celebrity and VIP clientele. Through that business he came to know people like Donald Trump, Renee and Celine Dion, Natalie Cole and other world celebrities on a personal basis. With a distinct voice purring through the Lagos airwaves, Chaz B's hallmark show is "SHARING LIFE ISSUES WITH CHAZ B", which earned him the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Awards for 2010 as the best On Air Personality in Radio and the show is rated the number one show across the city of Lagos. ‘Listening to Chaz B during our conversation was like listening to a clergyman, a man of strong moral conviction and religious beliefs. And you begin to wonder if he is an ordained priest, and if he is, what is he doing in broadcasting’ (Culled from his interview with digicast magazine). Chaz B continues to be a strong voice through his program, ‘Sharing Life Issues with Chaz B’, which airs on the Rhythm Radio Network every Monday to Friday at 6.15pm, as well as other network programs in the works. Chaz B died on the 22nd of November, 2014.

RIP to the dead. we'll miss them all.

Nmeri17:
I lost a tooth this year RIP to it and may its gentle soul rest in PARFECT piss

Mumu ...does a tooth have a soul
U be joking over a seriouz matter. Smh

Lost one of my coursemate in school, Babaranti funmilayo, so painful. Till we meet again

To all those we Lost in 2014....we pray that God will grant their souls eternal rest.....

Remembering my very good friend who Lost her Precious Dad this year....She still can't get over the loss of her dad up till the cross over night....I pray God grants Late Mr .Mgbahurike eternal and peaceful rest I pray God comforts the daughter who can't seem to get over the loss.

Lost my elder brother Kenneth, a.k.a Alima.
A very painful reminder of 2014 to me.

R.I.P Alima

RIP. We can only pray they are in a much better place.

Space booked for my grand ma who tap out on dec.
30-2014. May her soul flex well the bossom of her crator the almighty