Category: Funerals

Late Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, ex-presidential aspirant of APC, 2023, former governor of old Abia State and a one-time minister of Science and Technology. TRIBUTE: By Prof. Mike Ozekhome. I prefer celebrating people while alive. I have done this for decades. I will continue to celebrate the living. The dead hears no tributes or eulogies. Where death however steals a match on us, clanging its filthy manacles as a hideous monster, we must conquer and mock it by remembering our…

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The Royal Family of late Queen Elizabeth 11. By Advocatenewsng.com. Queen Elizabeth’s closest relatives were ashen-faced throughout Monday’s solemn funeral rituals in London and Windsor, silently playing their parts in meticulously choreographed processions that nevertheless betrayed the high emotions of the day. Elizabeth’s son King Charles and his three younger siblings, Anne, Andrew and Edward, followed the gun carriage pulled by 142 Royal Navy sailors that bore the queen’s coffin to Westminster Abbey https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/westminster-abbey-traditional-church-royals-life-death-2022-09-18/ for her state funeral service….

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By Advocatenewsng.com. Queen Elizabeth II, the monarch of the United Kingdom and head of the Commonwealth, has proceeded to the eternal reals of existence at the age of 96, Buckingham Palace has just announced. The queen passed on Thursday as members of her immediate family rushed to her side, including her son and heir, Prince Charles. “The Queen passed on peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon,” the statement read. “The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this…

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Late Tony Momoh. By Editor-in-Chief. The earthly cloak of Prince Tony Momoh, media guru, senior lawyer, a conscientious politician of rare breed, and a former minister of information and culture, whose passage was widely reported by the media on February 1, will finally be committed to mother earth on Thursday, February 11, 2021 on Grailland, Iju Hills, Lagos. The funeral which will take place by 4 pm will be conducted in the sense of the Grail Message in accordance…

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Prince Momoh, Ex-Information Minister. TRIBUTE. By Nelson Egbobor I have lost a motivator/father-figure, Prince Tony Momoh, a veteran Journalist, former Editor of the Daily Times Newspaper, and ex-Minister of Information, who died on Tuesday, February 2, 2021, by 5 pm, at 81 years. In 1987, however, I had gone to see Prince Tony Momoh in his office at Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, for job assistance, having completed my National Diploma Programme in Mass Communication from the famous Auchi Polytechnic,…

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Late Tony Momoh. By Editor-in-Chief. Prince Tony Momoh, the 165th child of King Momoh I of Auchi, Edo State, a quintessential journalist, senior legal practitioner and a conscientious Nigerian politician, as well as one of the pillars of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has finally quit the world’s stage to continue his experiencing in the higher realms of existence in accordance with the eternal laws of the Most High God. He was reported to have left the flesh peacefully at…

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Late Professor Odekunle. TRIBUTE. Professor Femi Odekunle, a renowned professor of criminology and sociology who taught in Lincoln University, USA before returning to Nigeria in 1974 to teach at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria, passed on in December 2020 while still serving as a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Anti-Corruption, currently headed by Professor Itse Sagay (SAN). In this tribute by a Lagos-based senior lawyer, Wahab Shittu, he xrays the man called Femi Odekunle, his qualitilies…

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Falana, SAN. OPINION. By Femi Falana, SAN. SOME people have said that it is against the African culture to speak ill of the dead. That is far from the truth. In the past, Africans spoke ill of the dead and exposed the dead if they were found to have engaged in abominable activities that brought shame to a community. In fact, the bodies of dead men and women who were found to have brought pestilence to a community were…

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