NFF releases statement, condoles Stephen Keshi over wife’s death

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has released a statement, condoling with former coach of the Super Eagles, Stephen Keshi, who has lost his wife, Kate to cancer.

According to reports, Kate died on Wednesday night in the US, after a brief illness.

NFF president, Amaju Pinnick, spoke with Keshi over the phone and sympathized with the former national team skipper.

“This is devastating. To lose a spouse is the equivalent of a tragedy. I pray that Almighty God will give you and the children the fortitude to bear this huge loss,” Pinnick told Keshi over the phone.

He also hailed Keshi as a Nigerian hero and prayed that God will give him strength to bear the demise. 

“Keshi is a Nigerian hero and we mourn deeply with him at this time. This has come like a big blow, but we pray that he receives divine strength to cope with the situation, and we also pray that the Almighty God will grant the departed eternal rest,” Pinnick added.

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James Bond actor, 'Pierce Brosnan' Loses Daughter to Cancer

Pierce Brosnan & daughter, Charlotte

Popular 'James Bond' actor, Pierce Brosnan, has lost his daughter Charlotte to ovarian cancer at the age of 41 after a three-year battle with the disease.

Her mother, Cassandra Harris, died from the same type of cancer in 1991 while she was married to Brosnan.

Harris also lost her own mother to ovarian cancer when she was a teenager.

In a statement to People magazine, Brosnan said: 

"On June 28 at 2pm my darling daughter Charlotte Emily passed on to eternal life, having succumbed to ovarian cancer.

"She was surrounded by her husband Alex, children Isabella and Lucas, and brothers Christopher and Sean.

"Charlotte fought her cancer with grace and humanity, courage and dignity. Our hearts are heavy with the loss of our beautiful dear girl.

"We pray for her and that the cure for this wretched disease will be close at hand soon.

"We thank everyone for their heartfelt condolences."

The actor adopted Charlotte and her brother Christopher in the 1980s after the death of their father and the children took Brosnan's name.

He also had another son, Sean, with Cassandra Harris in 1983.

The Irish-born actor, who starred in four James Bond films, married his second wife Keely Shaye in 2001 and the couple have two children together.

Michael Douglas Denies Saying Oral Sex Gave Him Throat Cancer

 

ACTOR Michael Douglas yesterday denied saying his throat cancer was caused by oral sex.

As he hit world headlines, his spokesman Alan Burry said the star, 68, was quoted out of context over the sex virus HPV.
Alan said: “Michael didn’t say cunnilingus was the cause of his cancer.

“It was discussed that oral sex is a suspected cause of certain oral cancers. He didn’t say it was the specific cause of his.”

Douglas had a tongue tumour in 2010.
Asked if he regretted drinking and smoking, he reportedly said: “No. Because this particular cancer is caused by HPV, which actually comes from cunnilingus."
This statement was went viral and lots of fans wondered if he meant his wife gave him the HPV virus, or he was cheating on her... or what?
If you haven't read the previous story where he was quoted as saying it, read it Here

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Angelina Jolie's Aunt Dies of Breast Cancer

Angelina Jolie's aunt has died of breast cancer, barely three weeks after the Hollywood actress had a double mastectomy to avoid the disease.

Debbie Martin died in a hospital in a San Diego at the age of 61, her husband Ron Martin confirmed.

Mrs Martin was the younger sister of Jolie's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, whose own death from cancer in 2007 inspired the surgery that Angelina Jolie described in a May 14 article in The New York Times.

According to her husband, Mrs Martin had the same defective BRCA1 gene that Jolie does, but did not know it until after her 2004 cancer diagnosis.

He said that had his wife known in advance of her genetic risk "she would have done exactly what Angelina did".

In her article earlier this month, Jolie wrote: "My doctors estimated that I had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman.

"Only a fraction of breast cancers result from an inherited gene mutation. Those with a defect in BRCA1 have a 65% risk of getting it, on average.

"Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimise the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy."

See a video of her Aunt's husband speaking on his wife's death: