Members of Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has announced the burial arrangements of late Barrister Bola Raheem who passed away on the 25th of December 2022 .
The association will on Jan. 16 pay tributes to their female colleague . The NBA made this known in a statement on Friday.The statement was signed by NBA’s Assistant National Publicity Secretary, Mr Charles Ajiboye.Raheem was shot dead in Lagos on the last Christmas Day by an assistant superintendent of police attached to the Ajiwe Police Station in Ajah, Lagos State.
According to NBA, the tributes are to be paid at the Lagos Campus of the Nigerian Law School.“The Nigerian Bar Association, through its Lagos Branch, humbly requests for tributes to honour our late colleague, who was slain on Dec. 25, 2022,” the NBA said.
With the directive of the NBA President, Mr Yakubu Maikyau (SAN), a befitting day of tributes will be organised by the NBA in honour of the deceased, Mrs Bolanle Raheem.
The event tagged: “Auroral Tributes to Mrs Bolanle Raheem by the NBA”, is to be held at the Dinning Hall of the Nigerian Law School, Lagos Campus, on Jan. 16, from 1.p.m. to 4.p.m.
According to NBA, Raheem’s family has slated her funeral service for Jan. 17 at the Olive Tree Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Banana Island, Lagos State.
However,a service of songs in her honour would take place on Jan. 16 at 5.00 p.m. at the same venue