Nigeria’s
oldest citizen in the UK, Pa Gabriel Lemoshe passed away on Friday
January 31st less than 2 months to his 100th birthday. He would have
turned 100 on March 15th and there was already an organizing committee
working to put together a grand party to celebrate the milestone.
Organizers of his birthday now plan to hold a celebration of his life on
March 15 instead of a birthday party.
The Abeokuta-born Pa Lemoshe was one of
the founding members of his native Egba United Society (EUS) in the UK.
Traditionally, the Queen of England writes a personal congratulatory
letter to anyone who clocks 100 in the UK and Pa Lemoshe was on course
to become the first Nigerian to receive such a letter but he
unfortunately passed on.
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