Diamond Celebrities

A Nollywood actress, Chinedu Bernard, was confirmed dead at the East Side Hospital in Enugu State after she slumped while cleaning the Chapel of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in the Federal Housing area of the state. According to reports, the priest, Reverend Father Uchendu Chukwuma, and some parishioners, rushed her to the hospital […]

One of the oldest Nollywood directors, Moses Ebere, is dead. In a post On Wednesday via Facebook, Amayo Uzo Philips, a colleague to the filmmaker, confirmed Ebere’s demise. Though the cause of his death is still unknown, the film director was said to have died on Tuesday Night. Philips wrote, “I heard very bad news about […]

Actress Takor Veronica has been found dead in a hotel room in Benue state one week after celebrating her birthday.  Veronica was found dead in a hotel room at Nyinma area of Makurdi, Benue State, just after celebrating her birthday on March 12.  Circumstances surrounding her death are still sketchy but the state police spokesperson, SP Catherine […]

Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets has been killed in a Russian rocket attack on a residential building in Kyiv. The Young Theater — a Ukrainian theater troupe she had been part of since 1980 — announced the star’s death. In a statement shared on its Facebook page, the company expressed its “irreparable grief” at Shvets’ passing. […]

Nollywood actress, Kemi Afolabi, says her doctor told her that she has five more years to spend on earth. In an interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, the actress revealed that she had been diagnosed with lupus. Lupus is a disease that occurs when the body’s immune system attacks tissues and organs. “I have lupus. […]

Police in Mwiyala in the outskirts of Kakamega town, Kenya has arrested a 32-year-old woman who served her two children with food laced with poison leading to their death. Pherine Maero, a nurse by profession, poisoned her two children, aged 7 and 9, on Saturday night, March 5 and later called her estranged husband, to […]

Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst jumped to her death from a skyscraper in New York City on Sunday morning – hours after posting a message on social media saying, ‘May this day bring you rest and peace.’ Kryst, 30, was a lawyer and also worked as a correspondent for the entertainment show Extra. She won the Miss USA […]

A housewife, identified as Motunrayo, has allegedly killed her husband, Alaba, aka Bama, in the Abule-Egba area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that the couple had an argument at their house, which degenerated into a fight. Motunrayo was alleged to have plugged a pressing iron, which she used to inflict burns on her husband’s chest. The […]

Veteran Hollywood actress, Regina King, has lost her son, Ian Alexander Jnr, who died by suicide. The bereaved mother, in a statement to People on Saturday, confirmed that her son died on Friday evening. King’s son died a few days after his birthday. Ian had just celebrated his 26-year-old birthday on Wednesday. Speaking about her son’s death, […]

Nigerian singer, Chibuzor Oji, popularly known as Faze has lost his mother. The Nigerian singer, lost his mother on the 12th of January at the age of 76, this comes barely a year after the death of his twin sister. The Kolomental crooner, took to his Instagram page to break the sad news to his […]

Bob Saget, the US comedian who delighted millions as the star of television’s “Full House” in the 1980s and 1990s, has been found dead in a Florida hotel room, the local sheriff said Sunday. “Earlier today, deputies were called to the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes for a call about an unresponsive man in a hotel […]

A Nigerian woman, Mrs Gloria Chiaka Aderibigbe, has died two days after welcoming a set of twins after ten years of marriage. Her sister, Nancy Chiama shared the sad news online revealing Gloria developed complications shortly after giving birth to her babies on Thursday, December 23  and died on Christmas day.

Another Nollywood actor, filmmaker and the chairman of Screen Writers Guild of Nigeria (SWGN), Sam Obiago is dead. This was disclosed by some of his colleagues who took to social media to express their shock yesterday. According to one of his colleagues, “He has been ill for a while now. So yesterday (Wednesday) he started […]

Veteran Nigerian comic actor, Babatunde Omidina fondly referred to as Baba Suwe is dead. The news of his death was confirmed by the president of the Theatre Arts and Motion Picture Producers Association of Nigeria, Bolaji Amusan also known as Mr Latin. It was gathered that the actor died yesterday. In an exclusive interview with […]

Members of a densely packed crowd surged toward a stage and were crushed against each other at a Houston music festival Friday night. At least eight people were killed and scores of others were injured in the chaos, witnesses and officials said. The victims were aged 14, 16, two were 21, two were 23 and […]

Veteran actor, Joshua Johnson is dead. The actor reportedly died of an undisclosed illness on Thursday. His colleague, Abel Alechenu, announced his death via his Instagram page, noting he was devastated by the sad news.

Tears flowed on Saturday as four of the seven children who died after allegedly eating Suya were buried in Umuahia, the Abia State capital. The four victims are Kelechi Chibuzor, 12; Sunday Chibuzor, 10; Oluomachi Chibuzor, 8; and Kingsley Chibuzor, 3. The children died on August 25. Punch Metro learnt that the actual cause of the death was […]

Nollywood actor, Rich Oganiru, has passed on. The actor reportedly died on Tuesday, August 10, 2021 after being ill for months. A friend announced his death on Facebook.