Ogun State shut down schools, market for HID Awolowo’s burial.

In honour of the Awolowo matriarch, Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, wife of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who will be laid to rest on Wednesday 25 November, the Ogun government has decided that all markets and public schools in the Remo Zone of the state be closed for the burial.
In a statement signed in Abeokuta on Monday, by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr Taiwo Adeoluwa, the closure was a mark of respect for the late matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, who died on September 19.
The release, however, said the directive would affect only schools Ikenne, Remo North and Sagamu Local Government Areas. “Government, hereby, appeals to market men and women as well as residents of the state to troop out en-masse to give the late Mrs Awolowo a befitting burial,” it said.