Monday, January 6, 2014

Iyetade Soyinka... To Be Buried in Ibadan

Iyetade Verity Soyinka, daughter of Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, who passed on at the University Teaching Hospital, Ibadan (UCH) three days after Christmas 2013, will be buried on Friday January 10 in Ibadan, Oyo State.
 
Her funeral services will take place at the Chapel of Resurrection, University of Ibadan at 11a.m.
 
Born on 5 June 1965, Iyetade was survived by her father, Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, her mother, Olayide Soyinka, a former university librarian at Ogun State University, her sisters and brothers - Olaokun, Moremi, Peyibomi, Ilemakin, Morenike, Amani, Tunlewa, Bojode and Eniara - as well as numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.
 
May her gentle soul continue to rest in perfect peace.

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