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| The Awanis and the birthday cake |
For the Awanis, birthday celebrations were one event that every member of the family looked forward to. And so it was only normal that preparations had begun for the 55th birthday of their dad, Daniel Awani, which ought to be on Tuesday, June 5.
Plans were already in full swing by his doting wife, Mrs. Georgina Awani, who aimed at staging a surprise party for her husband.
Sadly, these plans never materialised as the couple died in the ill-fated Dana Air MD-83 plane that crashed in Lagos on Sunday.
Daniel Awani died two days before his 55th birthday.
On Thursday when our correspondents visited the GRA Ikeja, Lagos home of the couple, the cake the children had ordered for their father’s birthday was still on the dining table.
It read, “Happy 55th Birthday, Dad.”
“The children only wanted to surprise their father on his birthday, they do that every year,” the family’s househelp told our correspondents.
Also, birthday cards addressed to their late father were also placed alongside one of the cakes, an indication that the birthday ritual was observed somehow.
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