The remains of the deceased journalist, Gbenga Davies, had been committed to mother earth at a brief ceremony in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
Davies, who was survived by wives and four children, died of cardiac arrest while on a night out with friends to see a football match at the age of 46 years.
The burial rite, which witnessed a large turnout of his colleagues in the media industry, especially from Ogun and Lagos States, had in attendance many other states representatives.
The former journalist’s remains left the mortuary in the early hours of August 14, 2019 and was accompanied to the NUJ Secretariat, Iwe Iroyin House, at Abeokuta, where colleagues and invited pastors paid tributes to the departed.
This was before he was eventually buried at Kobape Cemetery situated on the outskirt of the ancient city of Abeokuta.
Friends and family at the event were admonished to always live each day as if it is the last by the officiating pastor.
Davies had his secondary school education at Festac Grammar School, Lagos and proceeded to Ogun State Polytechnic, now Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, in Abeokuta, where he studied Accounting.
He would later choose a career in journalism, a profession he had passion for due to his closeness to his brother, the ace journalist, Otunba Femi Davies.