The remains of former Foreign Affairs Minister, Ambassador Gbenga Ashiru, arrived Lagos on Sunday.

The body was flown in aboard South African Airways with flight number SA060.

Ashiru died on November 29 in a South African hospital after a long battle with a terminal disease said to be brain tumour. He was 66.

Ashiru was Nigeria’s High Commissioner to South Africa, with concurrent accreditation to Lesotho and Swaziland in 2005

The aircraft, an Airbus 349 -600, landed on the runway at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, about 4.30pm.

The body was received by the family led by Prof Toyin Ashiru and taken out of the aircraft into a waiting hearse

Former managing director of Daily Times, Dr Yemi Ogunbiyi; Mr Olatunbosun Ashiru , Mr. Alaba Okupe , Venerable Oludare Otoki , Venerable Leke Dina , Sir Kehinde Smith and Ambassador Oluwatoyin Lawal, former deputy high commissioner in London and Mr, Niyi Alonge as well as the son of the deceased were on hand to receive the body of the ex-minister.

It was learnt that the brother of the deceased, the Ogun State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Otunba Bimbo Ashiru, flew in with the body.

From: http://www.punchng.com/news/remains-of-ex-foreign-affairs-minister-ashiru-arrives-lagos/?

We don't need the information on the flight its not relevant to the news that's all. All we know is that a politician has died in a foreign land and foreign hospital while trying to avoid using our death trap health system.
Let him go and rest.

slimfit1:
We don't need the information on the flight its not relevant to the news that's all. All we know is that a politician has died in a foreign land and foreign hospital while trying to avoid using our death trap health system.
Let him go and rest.

Say it very well into to their hearing.
To develop our hospitals here they hard them only to run over there treatment.

It is a pity!
We give thanks for a life well spent.

his cousin was my colleague during secondary school....rest in peace