The
formal
burial
rites for
the
former Minister of Information
and Communications, Prof. Dora
Akunyili, will start on Monday,
August 25 with a night of
tributes in Abuja at the
International Conference
Centre.
According to the programme of
events released to the press by
her husband, Dr. Chike
Akunyili, there will be a mass
on Tuesday, August 26, at Our
Lady Queen of Nigeria
Cathedral, Garki.
The burial train will move on
Wednesday, August 26, to
Enugu where she spent a good
part of her life for a burial mass
at the Holy Ghost Cathedral.
Her remains will be interred at
Agulu, her husband’s hometown
in Anambra State on Thursday,
August 28, after a burial mass at
Madonna Catholic Church,
Agulu.
A first class pharmacy graduate
of the University of Nigeria,
Akunyili died at the age of 59 in
an Indian hospital two months
ago after a protracted battle with
cancer.
She was better known as the
Director General of the National
Agency for Food and Drug
Administration and Control,
where between 2001 and 2010
she fought hard against drug
counterfeiters and raised the
consciousness of Nigerians to
the need to watch out for fake
and substandard drugs.
She was born to the family of
late Chief Edemobi, a
businessman of Nanka, Anambra
State.
She married Dr. Chike Akunyili
of Agulu, a neighbouring
community. They were blessed
with children and
grandchildren.


Source:www.dailyindependentnig.com/2014/08/dora-akunyili-buried-august-28/

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