The remains of Oreoluwa Aina, a 28-year-old National Youth Corps Member who was involved in the Lagos train accident which occurred on Thursday, March 9, have been laid to rest.
Aina was among the six victims who were confirmed dead after a train crushed a Lagos State Government staff bus at PWD, Ikeja area of the state.
The late corps member, who was serving with the Curriculum Services Department of the Lagos State Ministry of Education in Alausa was buried on Saturday at Atan cemetery.
A delegation of the state government led by the Commissioner for Education, Folasade Adefisayo, was present at the burial.
Also present were the deceased’s family members and the State Coordinator of NYSC, Yetunde Baderinwa.
Oreoluwa was a graduate of Pure and Applied Chemistry from the Osun State University, Osogbo. She has her primary and secondary education in Egbe in Lagos and was living with her paternal grandmother when the incident happened.
According to her father, she had planned to proceed to the United Kingdom for her Master’s degree immediately after her service year.