When I heard about your passing I had a lump in my throat and even now it still feels unreal.

I was barely a teenager when we first met and had just moved to Nigeria from the UK for boarding school. I didn’t have my mum around back then because she was still in London, but you provided that motherly warmth for me whenever I was around you. I use to call you my Dad’s fairy god-mother because you always cared for his well being.

I still have the beautiful diamond necklace and earrings that you gave me for my 21st, which I will cherish forever. I will miss you sorely, it is still so unbelievable that you have gone, but God knows best

My darling Aunty Princess, May your beautiful soul rest in sweet peace.

Aisha Bank-Anthony