Earlyface

A daughter of Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole
Soyinka, Iyetade, is dead.
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.
He described Iyetade as an “affable,
intelligent and sometimes capricious,” lady
who “struggled with her health in recent
years.
“In spite of this, she greeted every day with
a smile and doted on her two children. She
took ill quite suddenly and passed away
while being treated at UCH, Ibadan. Iyetade
leaves behind two children, both parents,
numerous siblings, nieces and nephews,”
the statement added.
The statement did not, however, disclose
burial plans for the deceased.