"God has you in his keeping
I have you in my heart."

Today evokes memories of December 21st, 2012, when we celebrated your 44th birthday and hosted me and my wife for our honeymoon. You were a truly exceptional brother. May you continue to rest in peace. You will be dearly missed.

Happy birthday with Elohim, Ediye. You are home.

24 Years of blessed memories... and counting. Rest Ediye mi. God's watching over us. Rest in peace.

Prof!!!! Rest on great man!!

You will never be forgotten, eternally loved Ediye.

You are at peace with God. You are forever missed and loved.

We remember you, with love.

I am grateful for all we could do together, and will always think of you with love and pride.

Continue to rest in peace Prof.

Rest indeed Ediye me. You are at peace, and home.

Ediye mi, Happy Anniversary in Heaven with God!!!

Rest on ID... you are in a better place with your Creator. I will always remember that one thing you told me when last we met in Manchester, UK... "believe in yourself, work hard and be brave". Today, I am living that dream. Thank you. DKD

Eight years ago today, we lit candles to honor your blessed memory, remember the incredible person you were, and acknowledge everything you gave the world. You lived surrounded by light, and your legacies abide in it. Thank you for each moment we shared with God. You are home.

They said rest in peace. But I know you are not resting. You are still working: still loving, still inspiring, still nursing and nurturing. Still being. I see you at work everyday: in your beautiful family, in your legacy, in our friendship, in the little signs you drop everyday. On this eighth anniversary, I see you my brother and friend, still working.

Continue to rest sir.

Continue to rest in the bosom of the Lord, Prof

My Dear Prof /Teacher, though you have gone to be with the Lord. You are not forgotten but your sweet memory lives on. ETERNAL REST GRANT UNTO HIM O LORD AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM AND MAY HE REST IN PEACE. AMEN 

My dearest Prof and father, you are indeed forever missed, 8 years ago you left us but you didnt leave us empty, you left us with so many beautiful memories of your great dress sense, your benevolent act of always giving, you lived a simple but impactful life. My only pain was that you didnt leave long enough to see me graduate and how God has elevated me. I am sure you are up there seeing me excel and happy to me progress. Continue to rest in the bossom of the lord! we will meet again.

Uncle, you are gone, but you will never be forgotten. We may be apart, but your memory will live within me forever

Dear Sir,
I never knew you as I joined AUN years after you had gone to a better place. However, your love shines through your wife and daughters daily. I'm grateful to God for the strength he's given them. Rest on Sir. You are loved!!!

We remember you Ediye mi - forever loved and missed.

"All is ephemeral, except that which makes things easier to bear." ~ |SLICE|

You made everywhere beautiful with your kindness and light. We remember you with love.

Happy birthday in heaven! You were truly separated unto God.

Happy birthday sir… Always in our thoughts ❤️

We miss you everyday but your light is unmissable. Thank you for the life you lived, for the love you gave and the eternal light you are.

Continue to rest in peace Prof.

As I look up into the sky, I know that You are the brightest star of all!
Forever loved and missed, Ediye mmi, rest in peace.

We knew how much you loved us and it made all the difference.
Remembering you in a space where words will never be enough.

I hear you in every word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y81yIo1_3o8

Your passing changed the way I see Easter, and I know how the story ends - resurrection through Jesus Christ.
You are home.

Remembering you on your birthday, with gratitude and love.
You will never be forgotten.

Some days can never be forgotten.
Some names will resound through generations.
Remembering our wedding day 21 years after, with gratitude and love.
Rest in peace Ediye mi.

You were a beautiful promise lived. 

Rest in Peace
where communion with God is
natural as love,
perfect as grace,
renewing as nature,
true as devotion, 
liberating as worship, 
potent as prayer, and
strengthening as faith.

You are an eternal promise kept.

Remembering Prof Idorenyin Akpan

Today, as always, I remember you my teacher,  my brother, my friend and colleague, Prof. Idorenyin Akpan.

Fate brought us together when I enrolled to study Communication Arts at the University of Uyo in 1993.

You were an exceptional teacher - very intelligent but simple, very kind but firm in your conviction, very hardworking but playful, very committed to friendship but tolerant in the face of betrayal.

You were human and even more and that was why you cultivated enduring friendship and comradeship across cultures, creeds and civilisations.

Idy, you lived a good life and you died a good man. I have so many things to write about you but let me recall an incident in your office in my 300 level.

You had given Herbert Batta your lecture notes to sell to us and I couldn't afford them even though the cost was very low.

Herbert, knowning that I was struggling and was almost dropping out, photocopied the notes for me free of charge.

That day, I walked into your office to submit an assignment and I had the photocopied notes with me.

Before I could hide them, you had caught me and pointed at the notes while looking straight into my eyes, smiling.

My mouth went dry but my palms were dripping with sweat and my armpits oozed heat that ran down my innermost places.

Still smiling, you asked, "What is that and how did you get them."

I stammered and coughed and cackled and crackled.

After a few seconds that seemed like eternity, I betrayed my friend Herbert and told you he photocopied the notes for me free of charge because I couldn't afford even the cost of photocopying.

The smile in your face disappeared and at once, I thought you were going to seize the notes and threw me out of your office.

But you didnt. What you did made both of us cry.

You stood up, hugged me and held me for some seconds and told me almost in a whisper, "Isine, you are a strong young man. I am so proud of you. I didn't know it was that bad. You will get all my notes free from now on."

You kept your word.

In my mind, I vowed to be eternally grateful to you and I tried to keep that promise.

We had a few conversations while you were at the American University of Nigeria, Yola and you suggested I should switch to the academia having practiced for over ten solid years. I didn't think so. At least at that time.

The next thing I heard was you were sick and was brought to Abuja for treatment.

It was JacobJacobs, I like calling him Sekob though, who called to break the news in the night. I promised to come see you the next day.

But it was too late. Dr. Jacob's, called again to break the news, you had gone home to be with your Lord and Savour, Jesus Christ.

The news was so devastating I couldn't get a hold on me for many days.

And then came the arrangements for your final return to the land of the ancestors.

It was at a time Ebola was ravaging some parts of Africa and the world and a certain Sawyer had brought the dreaded scourge into the country.

The airlines couldn't fly you home because of government's restriction to prevent the spread of the virus.

It was decided you will be conveyed home from the Asokoro General Hospital on one of the worst roads in the country.

As a sign of respect to you and perhaps, the last service to our friendship, I joined your wife, Emilienne Akpan and three church members, and together, we took you back to Uyo on the road.

It was not an experience anyone would wish to have but...

On December 15, I was again in your village, together with your relations and friends to bid you a final goodbye.

Today, I remember you as if it is the day you pardoned me and my friend, Batta for photocopying your notes.

I remember you as if it is the same day you opted to give me your notes free of charge till I graduated.

I will remember you for so many good and pleasant reasons always.

Thank you for who you were and the impact you left on this side of eternity; where the sun rises and sets.

God bless you and the family you left behind.

Continue to rest in peace, Sir.

Hello Daddy. I'm really happy that you're around in my life, and you're also a part of my journey to become successful and to achieve my dreams. 

Thanks for teaching me to follow my heart and my dreams, and to work hard to achieve them.

Another anniversary since you left to be with the Lord, Continue to rest in peace Prof.

My Prof, I miss you in the morning, and when the sunset fades away, the ache within my heart will not go away. My heart filled with love for you when I remembered how much you cared for us, Daddy, as we fondly call you, as I relive all the happiness and the joy we both shared. You're near; even if I don't see you, you're with me. Even if you're far away, you're in my heart, in my thought, in my life always.
You're always loved, never forgotten, and you're forever missed.

Six years ago you left to join the stars where you belong. I miss you every day. I still feel you next to me - even as I write this. In life and in death, very few people have influenced the course of my life the way you have. Shine on dear friend, brother and teacher.

Six years ago today you left to be with God the Father
Remembering you with faith and love - today, always, forever.

Forever in our hearts.

In a space were peace and joy are eternal, happy birthday with the King of Kings!

Thinking of you, with love. Happy Sunday with God.

Today would have been our 20th wedding anniversary, and as I remember the past years with and without you, I remain grateful for the joy you brought into our lives. Rest in peace Ediye mi.

Take rest. The field that has rested leaves a beautiful crop.
                                              ~ OVID

Unforgettable...
Forever loved, and missed.

Continue to rest in the blosom of the Lord.