Morenikeji and Oladele Agbe-Davies

was the queen of the Bakare clan and a doting mother to her children, a title no monarch could claim. Madam Efebudola loved her children very deeply and was prepared to sacrifice her happiness for theirs. The burial obsequies had started with a service of songs which took place at The cultural centre, kuto Abeokuta, Ogun State with notable dignitaries such as former president Olusegun Obasanjo, Governor of Kaduna State Nasir elrufa, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Mr Wale Babalakin, Senator Femi Okunrounmu, Pastor and Mrs Chinedu Ezekwesili, Mr Dapo Adelegan, Otunba Gbenga Daniel among others in attendance. The service of songs was followed the next day by the church service at the same venue, and was officiated by notable gospel preachers including Apostle Lawrence Achudume, Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, Rev Wilson Badejo and Rev Yomi Kasali. At the church service, which saw the General Overseer of Foursquare Gospel, Rev Wilson Badejo, praying wholeheartedly for the family of the deceased, the choir held the worshippers spellbound as they dished out songs to the dancing pleasure of all present. Abeokuta silently mourned as the nation’s dignitaries thronged its beautiful innards to pay tribute to the beloved mother of one of their own. The quiet amplified the sounds of the cortège

Death is never endearing. It is never splendid or replete with bliss. Thus everywhere it visits, it devastates, like the brute end of a bloody saber. At its intrusion in the world of Halima, widow of the late Dehinde Fernandez, it flipped the ravishing lady inside out and rendered her a pathetic husk of her former vibrant self. It brought her interminable pain and heartache but as you read, Halima has rediscovered her path to hope and vivacity. She has dragged through the deepest cycles of grief. Clawing through desolateness and pain, she has emerged stronger and radiant like the proverbial parson who has made peace with her grief, after a lifetime of hurt. As you read, brilliant spokes of bliss and innate peace beam from Halima, like the incandescent shine that bleeds through the clouds and bathes the night in a promising dawn. The popular socialite has decided to make the best of what life has thrown her way. Hence her bright smiles are back and her optimistic and infectious personality revitalised after a long spell of gloom. Indeed, no one wishes to be buried with the corpse of a loved one, no matter how deeply they were in love with each other. At the end, after the crying and mourning is over, everybody moves on; like Halima has moved on. Having mourned her late husband for a while, the beautiful socialite is back on the grind and she doesn’t look like she will lose steam or quit anytime soon. But she recently reemerged on the social media with update of a beautiful picture on her social media