Boardroom guru and Corporate titan, Hakeem Belo-Osagie, recently lost his mother and celebrated the obsequies with a final outing party in Lagos.
Belo-Osagie’s mother, Mrs Maria Iyakekhue Belo-Osagie (née Bazuaye), died on Monday, January 14, 2019, at the ripe age of 89. She was the widow of Professor Tiamiyu Belo-Osagie, renowned medical practitioner and long-running gynaecologist to several first families, who died in 2005 at the age of 81.
The funeral rites for the Belo-Osagie’s matriarch, kicked off on Thursday, 31 January, with a Christian Wake-keep. On Friday, 1 February, the funeral service took place at Ebony Vaults and Garden, Ikoyi, in accordance with Catholic injunction. This was then followed by the Interment at the same venue. The event climaxed with a grand reception at Habour Point, off Ahmadu Bello, Victoria Island.
The reception party was sumptuous and was graced by the high and mighty within the Nigerian social establishment. society.
The deceased is survived by four children – Hakeem and Myma Bell-Osagie, Sheri (a corporate Amazon, who is married to Folarin, the son of the late FRA Williams), Rilwan Belo-Osagie (former Managing Director of FSDH Group), Lateef Belo-Osagie (the managing director of Hackett Nigeria Limited and chairman of Western Pacific Communications Limited); and many grandchildren.
Prominent among the dignitaries who attended the classy burial ceremony were: Governor Godwin Obaseki, Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, Aliko Dangote, Femi Otedola, Tony Elumelu, Wale Babalakin SAN, Hajia Bola Shagaya, Senator Daisy Danjuma, Adenike Makinde, Angela Adebayo, Kashim Immam, Bimbo Alase, Sisi Modupe Sagoe, Pelebo Banigo, Atedo and Dundun Peterside, Chief Sonny Asemota, Chief Johnson Oyewole Fasawe, Olu and Joke Okeowo, Sena Anthony, Asue Ighodalo, Alake Dare, Sisi Abah Folawiyo, Bisi Abiola, Atinuke Saro, Fatima Adegunwa, Bashorun J.K. Randle, Yemi Cardoso, Anana Bode Emmanuel, Folake Adeniyi, Afsat Oshinusi, Odein and Awuneba Ajumogobia, Maiden Ibru, Kayode and Bimbo Williams, Pamela Jibowu and many other dignitaries.