Renowned professor of history, Ikime, is dead

A renowned professor of history, Obaro Ikime, is dead.

He died on Tuesday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

Ikime was born in 1936 in a village called Anibeze in the Arohwa clan in the Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State.

He was a fellow and former president of the Historical Society of Nigeria.

He was also a retired priest of the Anglican Communion and a former member of the University of Ibadan Governing Council.

He is survived by his wife, sons and daughter.

Details later…

Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO. We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited. We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.