Tag: Tears

Tears, Tributes As Nahimah Ajikanle-Nurudeen Is Buried In Lagos

Rofeequr Adeola--Yusuf

‘Please don’t tell our parents until …” Chido Nwakanma, Okwy Onyia, Balogun Hameedah Sade, Kunle Azeez, list of mourners and emotional words they wrote about the “Sun that set at noon”   Tears flowed freely on Saturday as the corpse of the Daily Trust former journalist, late Nahimah Ajikanle-Nurudeen was buried in Lagos. Platforms Africa reports that the event witnessed by many Islamic clerics, old and new friends and colleagues of the deceased, was also highlighted by glowing tributes penned for the “Sun that set at noon.” Daily Trust Ex-Journalist,…

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Tears, Tributes as Sadiq Daba is buried + PHOTOS

ADEOLA YUSUF

  How the popular actor/TV host was interred in Agege Cemetery + very revealing comments by VIPs about him   The remains of late actor and broadcaster Sadiq Abubakar Daba have been interred according to Islamic rites. The late Daba was buried at a cemetery in Agege, Lagos State, on Thursday. The burial took place hours after the actor was announced dead on Wednesday evening. Daba had a prolonged battle with leukemia and prostate cancer before breathing his last. The late Daba came to prominence in the late 1970s where…

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Tears, Tributes as Tolulope Arotile, Nigeria’s first female combat helicopter pilot, buried + PHOTOS

Precious Ibekwe

  Amidst tears and tributes, the coprse of Tolulope Arotile, first ever female combat helicopter pilot in Nigeria’s history, has been buried.   Tolulope, a graduate of Mathematics, became the first female to pilot a combat helicopter in Africa’s most populous country just at the age of 23 year-old. Her remains, Platforms Africa reports, were committed to mother earth at the Military Cemetery in Abuja, administrative capital of Nigeria, with full Military honours. The remains were lowered into the grave at exactly 11.05 am. The Nigerian Military led by the…

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