Service of Songs to Late Oluwole Awolowo •Burial holds today in Ikenne

THURSDAY was a day of honour in Ibadan for Chief Oluwole Awolowo, Publisher/Vice Chairman of the African Newspapers of Nigeria Plc (ANN Plc), as Nigerians from all walks of life led by the Senate President, Senator David Mark, rose to pay their last respects to the illustrious Nigerian who breathed his last on March 27, 2013 in a London hospital and is to be buried today in Ikenne-Remo.

 

As early as 7.00 a.m, the Imalefalafia, Ibadan head office of the Nigerian Tribune had been thronged by people who arrived the venue of the commendation service and media event put together by the ANN Plc to secure strategic sitting positions that would avail them an opportunity to have a vantage view of the proceedings.

The body of the late publisher of the Tribune titles, accompanied by family members including Dr (Mrs) Tokunbo Awolowo Dosumu, Barrister Olusegun Awolowo, children of the deceased and the Managing Director/Editor in Chief of the ANN Plc, was met at the Ibadan end of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway by top management staff of the ANN Plc as well as a contingent of the police, the Federal Road Safety Corps and Man O War, who led the motorcade to the Imalefalafia Junction, where the pallbearers from MIC disembarked and bore the casket bearing the body of Chief Oluwole Awolowo on their shoulders with dexterous dance steps through the street to the Tribune House.

The pallbearers were joined by pipers from the Police Band as they led the remains of the late publisher on his last journey to the company where he was the Vice-Chairman for over a quarter of a century.