UNIZIK, Ojoto Mourn As Prof. Bakky Adirika Goes Home

Ojoto town in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State and the entire Nnamdi Azikiwe University community wore mournful looks as Prof Ngozi Bakky Adirika, wife of veteran broadcaster and erudite academic, Dr Amaobi Adirika, was on Thursday, laid to rest in her home town of Ojoto.

Thousands of staff and students of UNIZIK were on ground to pay their last respects to the late senior member of the UNIZIK’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), who according to members, actively worked to ensure justice and equity for all.

Shortly before her death, Prof Adirika was said to have vowed to focus on “making Heaven”.

“I want to make heaven; I have seen that the world is all but vanity,” she said in a video now going viral among her friends, associates and loved ones in Anambra State.

A Professor in the Educational Foundation Department in the Faculty of Education at UNIZIK, the late Prof Adirika was the wife of Prince Amobi Adirika, a retired staff of the Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS), currently a traditional chief and Palace Secretary of the Ojoto Royal Chiefdom.

 

She was the immediate past president of the Ojoto Anglican Community, President of Women Home and Abroad, All Saints Anglican Church Ojoto, among other positions she held in the Anglican Communion.

It was all encomiums for the late professor as her body arrived her hometown on Thursday.

Speaking about the late Professor’s last wish of “making heaven at last,” a member of the community said: “I wish too that she made heaven at last.

She understood that life on earth is like a vapour; she renewed her strength by depending on the love of Christ.

Though she was a professor, she humbled herself to enrol into Holy Ghost School of which she was a student till her journey to the eternal home. Congratulations.”

Her burial service was officiated by His Lordship the Rt Reverend Dr Owen Chidozie Nwokolo, the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese on the Niger, among many other priests.