Metro Wole Soyinka Loses 48-year-old daughter

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Iyetade, 48-year-old daughter of Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, is dead.

According to Punch, a statement signed on behalf of the family by a former Editor of the Guardian on Sunday, Mr. Jahman Anikulapo and a close aide to Soyinka, stated that Iyetade, a mother of two, died while receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

Born on June 6, 1965, the deceased, according to Anikulapo, attended Staff School and Queens School, Ibadan before reading Medicine at the University of Ibadan.

Her burial plans were not disclosed.

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