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PHOTOS: Female Corps Member who died in bus-train accident buried in Lagos

The late corps member, who was serving with the Curriculum Services Department of the Lagos State Ministry of Education in Alausa would have passed out in June 2023. 
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Oreoluwa laid to rest in Lagos

THE remains of late Aina Oreoluwa Julianah, a 28-year-old National Youth Service Corps Member who was involved in the Lagos bus-train accident that occurred in the early hours of Thursday, March 9, 2023, along the PWD-Oshodi expressway when a Lagos State Government staff bus with Number 33, carrying civil servants and some dependents from Isolo to Alausa had a collision with a commercial train, has been laid to rest at the Atan Cemetery on Saturday, March 11, 2023.

It should be recalled that six out of the 85 passengers on the bus died while 79 civil servants and their dependents sustained varying degrees of injuries. Oreoluwa was among the six victims who were confirmed dead.

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Oreoluwa laid to rest in Lagos

The late corps member, who was serving with the Curriculum Services Department of the Lagos State Ministry of Education in Alausa would have passed out in June 2023. 

Officials of the Lagos State Government, led by the Commissioner for Education, Folashade Adefisayo, were at the burial ceremony to pay their last respects to the deceased.

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Oreoluwa laid to rest in Lagos

Also present were the deceased’s family members, other corp members, and the Lagos State Coordinator of NYSC, Yetunde Baderinwa.

The coffin conveying her remains was carried by corps members and was decorated with the Nigerian flag and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) flag.

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Oreoluwa laid to rest in Lagos