The body of Nollywood actress, Moji Olaiya, will arrive Nigeria on June 6 from Canada, where she died on May 17.
Olaiya was 42.
The body will not arrive alone.
It would come with her three-month-old baby she delivered before she developed some complications that led to her sudden death.
According to her obituary programme, a memorial service has been lined up for the same day at the Blue Roof, LTV 8 compound in Alausa, Ikeja.
The service will begin at 4pm and mourners have been asked to be decked in black corporate outfits.
On Wednesday, her body will lie-in-state at Ebony Vaults at Ikoyi Cemetery at 10am.
She will be buried thereafter.
Moji is survived by her first daughter, Adunola, and the baby, Maryam Moropeda Odutola.
Also listed among her survivors are her brother, Femi, and mother.
The popular actress was born February 27, 1975.
Though she was born a Christian, she later converted to Islam.
Because of her faith, she was supposed to have been buried immediately she died in Canada.
But her first daughter, Adunola, pleaded that her body be brought back to Nigeria.
However, the burial committee ran into financial difficulties bringing the body home.
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former Governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, was approached for assistance.
Tinubu provided the financial succour on May 2.
Olaiya began her acting career with Wale Adenuga’s production, Super Story.
She starred in several Nollywood movies of Yoruba and English genres.
She was known for her roles in films such as No Pains No Gains, in which she played Ireti, Sade Blade (2005), Nkan adun (2008) and Omo iya meta leyi (2009).
She also starred in Agunbaniro.
In 2003, she was nominated for the Reel Award Best Supporting Actress of the Year, and she won the Best New Actress Award.
Last year, she released a film, Iya Okomi, starring Foluke Daramola and Funsho Adeolu, which was scheduled to premiere in Lagos in July.
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