UPDATED: Renowned professor of history, Ikime, is dead

A renowned scholar and professor of history, Obaro Ikime is dead. Ikime, the author of many history books, died at the age of 87 on Tuesday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. He was born in 1936 in a village called Anibeze in the Arohwa clan in the Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta