October 08, (THEWILL) – Bolanle Okusanya Feyita, the first daughter of foremost late undertaker, Tunji Okusanya, has remembered her late father and brother, 10 years after they passed on.
Tunji Okusanya and his son, Tunji Jr, lost their lives in October 2013 at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) after suffering injuries sustained from the Lagos Cargo plane crash which occurred on the same day. They were on board the cargo plane transporting the corpse of a former Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Agagu to Akure for a lying-in-state and burial.
The late Okusanya was the boss of popular funeral service home, Magbamawo Industrial Company, otherwise known as MIC Casket. The Okusanya-led M.I.C undertakers were one of the biggest funeral service companies in Nigeria. The company provided services for some of the biggest names in the country and a number of celebrities.
After the sad event, Bolanle who was a renowned make-up artist based in London, returned to Nigeria to continue the legacies of her late father and brother whom the father was grooming to carry on with the business after his retirement.
Bolanle set up her business with a new name, LTJ which is the short form of her surname, Olatunji to keep their memories alive. She celebrated their tenth anniversary with a tribute on her social media page enumerating the 10 things she learnt from them.
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