It is difficult for me to accept that my very good friend Ade has passed away. I am still thinking that it is a bad dream and I am yet to wake up. I rang him two days before he passed away and our conversation was longer than usual as if we knew that it was the last time we would speak to each other. We reminisced about so many things, talking about mutual friends who had left us. What an irony! There has been so many happy memories that we shared and that I cannot forget. Ade was an optimist, always thinking that one day he would win the lottery! He assured me that he would give me some of his winnings! He was my trusted buddy, a sincere and loyal friend who cared about my family. He always enquired about my children and grandchildren. He did not like confrontation or arguments. He had a very strong faith and believed that there was not anything that God could not do. When his eyesight deteriorated he often said that it was only God who could cure him. Goodbye my dear friend. Rest in perfect peace until we meet again. “ To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die”. Chief Clement Dasilva