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Buhari Mourns Adetiran, Composer Of National Anthem
urges the family to take solace in the quality of life lived
President Muhammadu Buhari condoles with the Adetiran family, their friends and associates on the passage of an accomplished musicologist, Assistant Venerable Oluwole Isaac Adetiran, who passed on at 75.
The President urges the family to take solace in the quality of life lived by the departed, having left his footprints on the sands of time as composer of the NYSC Anthem, sung round the country, and inspiring innumerable youths.
President Buhari prays God to rest the soul of the former Head, Department of Music, The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Director of Music, Celestial Church of Christ Worldwide, and holder of the Member of the Order of the Niger (MON) National Award.
He charges the younger generation to learn lessons from the devotion of the departed to both secular and spiritual things, and excelling in all.
Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media and Publicity)
July 14, 2022
