My heart bleeds for his family, What a loss! May God grant his wife and children the fortitude to bear the loss. 

Deji - you were a great guy, I remember the years we all spent at NNSS. May the Joy you inspired in others never depart your loved ones.

Rest in Peace. The father to the fatherless, Ancient of days will take care of yours.

Today is a particularly difficult day for me as we begin a final farewell to a younger brother i consider an humble and a perfect Gentleman. Ayodeji Falae was indeed a perfect Gentleman who interacted with me couple of times, visiting me in the office and calling to check about my welfare. My Late Grandfather was his Mum's Principal at Ibadan Grammar School, His dad was in Igbobi College with my Late dad, two of his older Cousins the Fasonranti twins where a year below me in Government College Ibadan and one of my classmate is also married to his cousin.  The news of his passage was and is still shocking for me, as only a few months ago i saw him with his dad at a function, where we talked about Politics and Life. Who would have thought that was going to be our last interaction as i told him that since his name appeared in the names of Committee of friends along mine for a friend's function we are both now becoming Politicians. His response was ''Egbon won biyi sinu eni oooo ele escape ooo''. Deji had time for anyone who came his way and he will do anything to help those he can.

When i was about 4yrs Old I lost a slightly older relative i was fond of i remember my Late Grandfather who was an Anglican Priest coming back from comforting the family of this relative. My innocent question to my Grandfather then was why did my relative die? and my Grandpa's answer was WE DON'T QUESTION GOD.

Please pray for the Falaes today that the Almighty God who is the only comforter will comfort and be with the family.

AYODEJI OMO FALAE FARE THEE WELL MY PERFECT GENTLEMAN AND FANTASTIC ABURO WE THANK GOD FOR YOU- IT IS WELL!!!

I write this about you not because you can read it (sadly so) but so that anybody that comes across it can know that you meant a lot to so many people in different kinds of ways.

If I recall correctly, I met Deji Falae (Senior Deji like we used to call him) some twenty five odd years ago at NNSS Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria. What I remember most about him from a distance is his neatness at all times. How white his white shirt was, how properly ironed his clothes were, how white his socks were, how neatly polished his sandals were and how gracefully he dressed. You would think with all this, he was just about the appearance. No he wasn’t. As I somehow got to be acquainted with him, I came to know him as a gentle, soft spoken and kind senior. Deji was some years ahead of me in age and I recall some of my encounters with him. His advice on cleanliness , seriousness and kindness to younger ones. I remember how I used to compare his dressing to that of senior Dupe Osilaja and used to wonder how they managed to put it all together. Dressing wise and image wise you could label them GQ men.

I am glad Deji progressed to be the man he was, the kind hearted fellow a lot of us knew him to be and to see that he tried to do his share in the short time he was allowed. However, I am deeply heartbroken he has passed on and I shed tears for the loss of a fine gentleman.

I had hoped he would evolve to become a leading light and part of the cornerstone that would bring the much desired real change to our dear country Nigeria, but for now, it seems my hope would just remain as it is, Hope!!   

There is much to be written about our friend and brother, Deji, however I will stop my writing at this point and pray to God to forgive him his short comings and grant him peace and eternal rest .

I pray God in His Infinite mercy would comfort his wife Ese, their children and their loved ones, Amen.

It shall be well with all of us by the grace of God Almighty.       

Bro Deji, we celebrate your life because we know you are in a better place. Though your life seemed short when measured by human standards, before God, you lived to fulfill your purpose. If it were not so, you would not have impacted upon so many lives during your short life. I wish you could read the hundreds of tributes written on your behalf. Yours should therefore be a celebration of life well spent. It is not easy not to mourn, I tell you, but we all have to find the inner strength to move on with life. I choose to hold on the the happy and fond memories I have of you.

I still remember last time I came to Nigeria during your swearing-in ceremony. You called me "Dami-Girl", as you so fondlly used to call me since I was a little girl. My husband tried to correct you that i was now a mother and no longer should be called Dami-Girl. But you corrected him that, to you, I would always be Dami-Girl, even after I became a grandmother. 


Rest well bro, till we meet on the other side.

Much love     

Bro Deji, we celebrate your life because we know you are in a better place. Though your life seemed short when measured by human standards, before God, you lived to fulfill your purpose. If it were not so, you would not have impacted upon so many lives during your short life. I wish you could read the hundreds of tributes written on your behalf. Yours should therefore be a celebration of life well spent. It is not easy not to mourn, I tell you, but we all have to find the inner strength to move on with life. I choose to hold on the the happy and fond memories I have of you.

I still remember last time I came to Nigeria during your swearing-in ceremony. You called me "Dami-Girl", as you so fondlly used to call me since I was a little girl. My husband tried to correct you that i was now a mother and no longer should be called Dami-Girl. But you corrected him that, to you, I would always be Dami-Girl, even after I became a grandmother. 


Rest well bro, till we meet on the other side.

Much love     

It was fantastic when some 28 odd ex NNSS pupils reconnected on the bb group about 2 years ago. We would reminisce about those teenage years and school days (which they say is the best days of your life BTW). We spoke about our tutors most especially the ones that made our lives hell, the female teachers the boys thought were hot and the ones that impacted our lives amongst many other things. We spoke about all the stuff, name it....we talked about it. Who got up to what and all the girl/boy issues back in the time. 

Your immaculately neat dressing always did come up no doubt, even now I can still picture you in those navy blue shorts, (later to become trousers)  sparkling white shirt and white socks with sandals walking down the corridors of the school.

You were our own 'Knight Ryder' on the bb group then one day we awoke to find a Deji amongst us and we all wondered what had happened to 'Knight Ryder' :-) only for you to tell us how Ese had called you to order and asked what exactly is 'Knight Ryder' we all laughed and teased about this and commended you for falling in line sharply and for quickly reverting to Deji on the command of the power that be.

It was such joy to look back on those 20 something/30 years and to be able to hang with each other again and rekindle relationships was such a blessing. Of course it's not always been that rosy in the group and we had our ups and downs. arguments, fall outs, with people exiting the group, coming back etc. Yomi mentioned the other day though how Leke had observed that this is the first time we would have anyone at all leave the group never to come back and what pain and sadness that brought

Ore, I still remember your smile and gentleness of those days at ADRAO International School. Very sad. RIP.

i see this as a great loss, we find it encouraging to see young fellas up there doing excellently well, i have always admired Deji Falae from afar cos he gave people like us hope that we will get there some day, he was young and promising i see it as sadnening and  i pray the Lord comfort his family, you really left too soon, it is well, rest in peace!