Adefemis remains arrive today

THE remains of Super Eagles defender, Olubayo Adefemi, will be flown into the country this night aboard Alitalia Airline from Rome.According to a release by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), family members of the deceased and top officials of the NFF are among persons expected to receive the body, which would then be taken to a morgue in Yaba, Lagos.It has been confirmed that the players corpse would lie in state at the sports hall of the Lagos National Stadium in Surulere on Thursday morning before it is committed to earth at the Atan Cemetery, Yaba, hours later.Adefemi, who won a FIFA U-20 World Cup silver in 2005 and an Olympic silver in Beijing three years later, and was also in the squad that qualified Nigeria for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, died last Monday after the car he was driving hit the dividing rail on the highway and crashed onto the other side of the road in Greece, where he was playing professional football with top league side, Skoda Xanthi.
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