The family of the late Professor Idowu Akanbi Sobowale, has announced the burial programme for the renowned academic, who died on Thursday, October 8, 2026.
The burial arrangements were announced by his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Abiodun Sobowale, in a letter dated October 16, 2026, addressed to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Akoka.
According to the programme, the funeral activities will begin with a Service of Songs on Thursday, December 3, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. at Shepherdhill Baptist Church, Obanikoro, Lagos.
The Service of Songs will be followed by a Night of Tributes at the same venue from 6:30 p.m.
The family said the lying-in-state would take place at the deceased’s residence at 3, Alake Onile Ere Street, Gbagada G.R.A. Phase II, Lagos, on Friday, December 4, 2026, from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
The funeral service is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on the same day at Shepherdhill Baptist Church, Obanikoro, Lagos.
His private interment will subsequently take place in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
In the letter, Mrs Sobowale expressed the family’s gratitude to those who would join them in prayers as they bid farewell to their beloved husband and family member.
The late Professor Sobowale, who was conferred with the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), was born on March 29, 1941, in Ashipa, a small community near Abeokuta in Ogun State.
