This memorial website was created in memory of our loved one, Oladipo Oniwinde, 36, born on April 20, 1969 and passed away on October 22, 2005. Ten years ago, Bro. Dipo was snatched from us at the early age of 36, on the ill-fated Bellview Flight going from Lagos to Abuja. Our consolation as a family is that he was with his soulmate, Nkiru Oniwinde, who was also on that flight. They left behind their 3 children who were ages 6, 4 and 18months old then. We truly miss you, Rest on in Heaven Bro, until we meet to part no more. We will remember him forever.
Tributes
Leave a tributeThank you Rev. Jaiyesimi for your ever-uplifting words.
Laolu, I am mega-proud of you! For everything you have achieved as a bright young man and baring it all as you just did.
I know your parents would be mega-proud too!
Please know that they would have wanted nothing more than to reassure you of this themselves, but hear, believe and know this in the depths of your heart to be the all unconditional love that it is and always would be.
As you know bro, I choose to remember your birthday than the other dark day.
I hope you had an awesome, heavenly 55th birthday bro, I love and miss you daily xx
Continue to rest in perfect peace xx
Olaolu you and your siblings can rest assured as your grandparents and family must have told you many times that your father Oladipo and your mother Nkiru loved you deeply and yes they will be proud of who you are but remember this even more than them God loves you and will never stop loving you. Dipo knew this from his earliest years he had received this love of God.
Sun re o Oladipo omo Oniwinde.
Happy 54th bro.
Continue singing with the Angels and watching over us all.
We miss and love you.
Give Nky a hug from us xxx
Words are not enough......
We stand on the shoulders of giants and you, and Nkiru were giants.
You were both gentle giants and your children and all whom you loved and
loved you will continue to stand strong inspired by your legacy of love. The light of the love of our LORD JESUS that shined in your hearts will never grow dim.
Happy 53rd bro!
Love and miss you in ways words cannot describe!
Rest on bro, rest on.....
achieved so much in your short 36 years and your memory and what you lived and stood for continues to inspire us. Your life makes us want to live our lives better. May the LORD whom you loved and served continue to bless your family most abundantly. Truly the measure of a life is not how long but how well and Dipo you lived well.
sun re ore.
continue to take care your son Bolaji and his siblings. Your life of loving
and faithful honest service will continue to be an inspiration to us all.
Sun re o my dear friend and ex- student.
Love you forever ❤️❤️❤️❤️
It is well with us.
Thank you for the love and the memories.
We love you and miss you immensely.
Rest on......
Continue to rest in God’s bosom
Love you forever.
#ForeverinourHearts
I don’t want to get too sad today. Keep resting in the bossom of the Lord. Kiss Aunty Nky for us. I love you.
So in my usual mode of trying to prepare for the week and what we have planned for your birthday on that Saturday.... I call Lola Onajin to wish her a happy Birthday and invite her to the house on that Saturday... I start to open up to her a little about how the last month has been (I’ve stayed busy), and I didn’t realize when I burst into tears.
Planning your birthday brought me to tears, the memory of telling mum and Dad about Wonuola’s plans for your birthday, and how mummy started crying haunted me.... how Daddy couldn’t look at me as I spoke.... how Zeze wouldn’t be present on that day cos he has to be Off site... how I may have to explain to Laolu all by myself the significance of what we had planned for what would have been your 50th Birthday.
Oh how I cried... 14 years later and I’m crying like it just happened yday. Fela came over and wiped my tears whilst I was on the phone with Lola. After I hung up with her, It kept coming down because I missed you...I miss you... I miss Aunty Nky, and I know your babies miss you, mummy and Daddy miss you, Zeze, Sist Doyin and Sis Lape miss you
I felt overwhelmed with emotion, my chest was hurting, I had a headache... I felt like I was gonna pass out. I messaged Yomi immediately to tell him how I felt. I messaged Sist Doyin that I was stomped on how to include Laolu on your birthday.
I’m still sad... still teary eyed. It is because u r no longer with us that mum and Dad didn’t celebrate their 50th year wedding anniversary... all she remembers is that it was a few weeks before she became a Mother for the first time.
We all miss you so much... I miss you terribly. I can’t believe I have cried so much today...I want your birthday to be a beautiful day... I pray that It means something to Laolu. All I want is for them to know of you and the legacy you left behind.
For As long as there is breath in me, Bolaji, Wonuola and Laolu will be loved and cared for. All of your loved ones friends and family will carry on the great work that you started on them.
I love you bro.. I miss you so much it hurts. It is because of the hurt I feel that I know I want you forever in my heart. I will try and fall asleep now.
ALADE, GOD bless your soul. I will always love & cherish your memory.. Stay blessed.
The above is as written by Mummy.
My heart broke all over again reading this from her. I don’t know how she does it, how she stays so strong! But she does somehow, she does.
I’ve been in bed, crying.
I’d had plans (thanks to Wonuola) to release balloons today in celebration of your birthday, but then found out it’s a health hazard as balloons are not biodegradable. So I opted for butterflies instead, which I ordered well in time but sadly they are still yet to be delivered.
I am determined to release the butterflies in celebration of your golden jubilee even if it means postponing the release.
Your childhood pictures being dug out by Oyinda today, pictures of you with Bolaji, Wonuola and Laolu, pics of you with Nkiru, of you with the parents and us your siblings, you looking so alive in those pictures had me all knotted up inside and in tears!
Fourteen years later and it’s still so hard.....
Happy 50th birthday to my angel in heaven, we love you and will always miss you.
Your spirit and memory forever lives on in our hearts.
May God continue to comfort and guide all of us you left behind, till we meet to part no more....
Rest on bro
Love you to eternity.
Have a heavenly birthday bro, singing with the angels
Akinsola oloruko mi ... rest well ...
The pains are still very real, but you remain forever in our heart.
We all miss you both sorely, I guess I can't stop asking why? But God knows best.
Till we meet to part no more egbon mi, continue to rest in the bosom of our eternal Father.
Love you forever xx
I praise God for the way He helped your immediate family to deal with your passing including your wife's passing .
I praise your family for the way they have carried on your legacy .
I hope we will meet at the feet of Jesus .
But I thank my heavenly Father for His grace, His mercy and His provision. He has been faithful and many have been supportive which is a testament to how you impacted their lives...our loss is immeasurable but we remain comforted by the memories...knowing you are looking down from heaven and keeping a close eye on all that you hold dear...have a heavenly birthday egbon mi, love you till eternity xxx
May God continue to be with Bolaji, Wonuola and Laolu. May your children continue to be a source of joy to your parent. You sure said your farewell to me, visited few days to your death, even Nky also dropped by my office few days before, we even made plans to return to Abuja together. Though your life was short, but very eventful and you touched so many. You left at the time we needed you most, I still miss you a great deal.
Continue to rest in eternal peace.
Leave a Tribute
Thank you Rev. Jaiyesimi for your ever-uplifting words.
Laolu, I am mega-proud of you! For everything you have achieved as a bright young man and baring it all as you just did.
I know your parents would be mega-proud too!
Please know that they would have wanted nothing more than to reassure you of this themselves, but hear, believe and know this in the depths of your heart to be the all unconditional love that it is and always would be.
As you know bro, I choose to remember your birthday than the other dark day.
I hope you had an awesome, heavenly 55th birthday bro, I love and miss you daily xx
Continue to rest in perfect peace xx
Olaolu you and your siblings can rest assured as your grandparents and family must have told you many times that your father Oladipo and your mother Nkiru loved you deeply and yes they will be proud of who you are but remember this even more than them God loves you and will never stop loving you. Dipo knew this from his earliest years he had received this love of God.
Continue to rest in God’s bosom
Love you forever.
#ForeverinourHearts
Dipo & Nkiru, it's almost 10 years now and it seems just like yesterday when I called your office to find out why I was not getting thru to you and Nkiru as I had an appointment with Nkiru that faithful Monday and I received the rude shock. The good ones don't last.
We worked together at PWC, You met Nkiru at PWC, I also met and married your friend and colleague Adesina in PWC, that union is blessed with 6 wonderful kids.
You are forever missed, and I always remember to say a prayer for your 3 children. May they fulfil their destiny. May God continue to watch over them.
Egbon mi
I have so many great memories of my brother, like how I was always the first to meet all his girlfriends including Aunty Nky or like how he always gave me money every time I needed it, or how he stopped me from hugging him when he came home from UniPort Harcourt with chicken pox (he yelled STOP from a distance as I ran towards him), but the memory I’m gonna write about happened when I was in JS1 in 1993. I had come home from FGGC Sagamu for an eye exam, and my mum took me to the opticians at Lapal House in Lagos Island, it was while I was at the opticians that a riot broke out in Lagos Island. My Brother, Zeze, had taken the car out after he dropped my mum and I, but he could not come back to pick us because of the riot. Infact, there were no taxis or public transport anywhere, so my mum and I walked over to where Bro Dipo was working at Tinubu. He was then at Pricewaterhouse but was auditing somewhere on the Island, so we went over to join him there. Anyway, we found out that the office he was working from was closing because of the riot so we could all go home together. My mum, my brother and I set off from Lagos Island looking for a bus to get us home because we were going all the way to Agbara Estate. I remember so well that we walked all the way from Lagos Island passing through Eko Bridge, by the time we got to National Theatre, I was tired of walking, and we had no idea where we would get any form of transportation. So guess what, Bro Dipo put me on his back and kept walking, he carried me like that all the way to Orile in his shirt and tie while my mum walked behind us. It was at Orile that we finally got a bus. Yesss, my brother was my SUPERMAN.