GOOD NIGHT, LABAKE Your departure has further shown that death is inevitable, every soul shall taste death. My family and I are diminished by your exit and we are still unable to adjust ourselves to the reality that you are gone forever until we meet on the Day of Resurrection. What a loss! We all met in January 1968 as young boys and girls seeking secondary school education at the Ijebu Muslim College, Ijebu Ode. Ever since, we remained friends being of assistance to one another. Our children bonded and our friendship defied the adage that ‘twenty children cannot be friends for twenty years.’ We were friends for over fifty years before the almighty death snatched you away! Your unsurpassable role in moulding and welding our Set together cannot be forgotten in a hurry. You gave us your time, organisational acumen, frankness, and lots more. Labake, you were uncanny mobiliser and an Iron lady. It is melancholic that we won’t see you again. Perhaps I am dreaming, but it is a reality. You are gone to join the saint triumphant and the heavens are rejoicing while we mortals are in a state of melancholy. The seriousness you brought into life, your endeavours, your spirituality and your calmness. I cannot forget and my family is still in a state of shock. Why death should take one of our best, I cannot decipher. Only the Almighty God has an answer. God must have loved you more than we did. Labake, you are gone from our sight, but never from our hearts. Labake, with your death, all things soft and beautiful and bright are gone with you. Labake, your death has left a heartache no one can heal. Labake, your death ends a life, not a relationship. You have become a memory, and your memory is now a treasure. I know for certain that we never lose the people we cherish, even to death. Those we love never truly leave us as there are things that death cannot touch. God shall surely give your family and all of us the fortitude to bear your loss. It is good night! It is sunset! It is the end of an era. ---Chief Fassy Adetokunboh Yusuf, Ph.D. (Friend/Classmate)