Christopher Ayalogu
Saturday 21 December 2019 The Nigerian community in Ottawa gathered last weekend to mourn the loss of one of their long time residents of the city, late Christopher Chukwundum Ayalogu…
Pius Adesanmi laid to rest
Saturday 26 October 2019 The remains of the late Professor Pius Adesanmi were laid to rest at the Capital cemetery on Prince of Wales Drive, with over a hundred family and…
Funeral service for Okusanya
Elizabeth Okusanya May 22, 1965 – July 28, 2019 Saturday 3 August 2019 The chapel of the McEvoy-Shields Funeral Home on Hunt Club Road was packed with a standing-room only…
Nobel-prize winner Toni Morrison
6 August 2019 Toni Morrison: Literature Nobel-prize winning author dies The Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. The Morrison family confirmed “with profound…
Kabuya-Ntumba shot in market
Friends remember Market shooting victim: ‘You could feel the confidence and good energy from him, always’ LUKE CARROLL Updated: July 2, 2019 Ryan Kabuya-Ntumba, killed in the ByWard…
Remembering Ivy Fagan
Tribute to an Ottawa Caribbean Pioneer – Ivy May Fagan by Dave Tulloch May Fagan had just celebrated her 95th birthday a year earlier when I interviewed her for…
Journalist Nalayeh killed in Somalia attack
July 12, 2019 Hodan Nalayeh, a Somali-Canadian journalist who once resided in Vaughan, Ont., was killed in an attack on a hotel in Somalia on Friday, Mogadishu-based Radio Dalsan tells CBC News….
Elizabeth Adebukola OKUSANYA
MAY 22, 1965 – JULY 28, 2019 Peacefully at Hôpital de Gatineau, on July 28, 2019 at the age of 54 years, after a valiant battle with cancer. Pre-deceased by her father…
In memory of Valerie Muchenje 1972 – 2019
Valerie Muchenje 26 November 1972 – 30 May, 2019 2 June 2019 In Loving Memory Valerie Sitar Muchenje died Thursday, May 30, 2019 at the age of 46. She…
Rapper Campbell in Byward shooting
Suspect in custody in shooting death of rapper in ByWard Market JON WILLING & JACOB HOYTEMA June 9, 2019 A victim is attended to after a shooting in the ByWard Market…