A Nigerian-British citizen, Prince Adeoba Adeniji-Adele, has been found dead in his home in London, United Kingdom.\n<\/p>\n
He was aged 62.\n<\/p>\n
The late Adeniji-Adele moved to the UK in 2024 after retiring from the Lagos State Government Public Service, where he served as the informtion officer in several government agencies.\n<\/p>\n
Saturday PUNCH gathered that upon his relocation, he started working as a support officer with the Bushey Meadows Supported Living.<\/p>\n
However, his lifeless body was discovered last Monday at his residence in Flat 6, 2A, Bruce Road, Barnet, London, after his colleagues sent a welfare check.\n<\/p>\n
His childhood friend, Abayomi Ishola, in a telephone call with our correspondent on Friday, confirmed the incident.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was unusual of him not to return calls or respond to messages from both his wife and his office. They got concerned and sent a welfare check to his house; they sent an ambulance after finding him dead,\u201d Ishola said.<\/p>\n
Our correspondent gathered that the UK authorities had started an investigation into the death.<\/p>\n
Ishola said he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and got treated two months ago.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was able to return to work. He didn\u2019t have any ailments. We just heard of his death on Monday.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe lived alone in his residence but he was agile. He even sent money for his mother\u2019s 90th birthday in Nigeria,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n
Adeniji-Adele started his life in the UK until 2012 when he moved to Nigeria.\n<\/p>\n
He worked as an information officer with the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender, before he was posted to the Gbagada General Hospital, where he retired.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe worked for 10 years in Lagos and returned to the UK two years ago. But while in Nigeria, he had four children: one set of twins and two other children,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
Ishola added that Adeniji-Adele got British passports for his children after he returned to the UK.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was at the point of getting entry clearance for his wife to join him in the UK with the children when he passed on.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The widow, Kehinde, in a moving tribute on Facebook, described him as a loving husband.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cAdemi, Okomi, Ololufe mi, I am writing this with a deep pain my heart. Thank you for being that husband that will give his last fight to make sure all goes well in the family, even though I misunderstood you then, now I understand better,\u201d she wrote.\n<\/p>\n
When contacted by Saturday PUNCH, Kehinde said she spoke to her husband a day before the incident.\n<\/p>\n
She noted that after they chatted for some time, he said he was exhausted.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he wanted to sleep. I said he shouldn\u2019t worry that I would call him the following day.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when I called him the following day, which was Monday, he didn\u2019t pick up. So, I assumed he hadn\u2019t woken up or maybe he just wanted to take a nap.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
She said after she did not hear from him, she became worried.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cAround 3.15pm, I called him and someone picked but I heard a scream. Then, a white man answered the phone and asked me questions.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe man asked for my husband\u2019s name and I said it. He asked who I was, and I said I\u2019m his wife. He asked me to call my number and I did. He then said I was truly his wife.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cHe then announced the death of my husband to me on the phone. He explained what happened and how he was not seen in the office, before a welfare check was sent to his residence,\u201d she added.\n<\/p>\n
Speaking about the burial plans, the woman said the British authorities wanted to conduct an autopsy to confirm the cause of his death.\n<\/p>\n
She confirmed that her husband was making plans for her to join him in the UK.<\/p>\n
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