Ogun EHOAN Loses Member






With a heavy heart, the Environmental Health Officers Association of Nigeria (EHOAN) Ogun State chapter announces the demise of one of her members in person of Sanitarian Lanre Adeoye aka Kabila. He died on Sunday 19th February, 2017 after a brief illness at the age of 50.

Mr. Lanre Adeoye until his demise was an Environmental Health Officer of Ogun State Local Government Service Commission and domiciled in Abeokuta South LG. He is survived by a wife and children as well as an aged mother.

He will be buried at his country home in Obada-oko, a suburb of Abeokuta, on Friday 24th February, 2017.




May his gentle soul rest in peace and may God grant the family and professional colleagues the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.



Femi Abolade, licensed EHO, Writer, author and public speaker
femibolade12@gmail.com
+234 8074275257

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