By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The Executive Secretary Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, on Thursday paid a condolence visit to the wife and family of late Abuja Journalist , Albert Akota at his Mpape residence in Abuja, on Thursday ,21st March, 2024.
The NCPC boss who arrived the residence of late Mr Akota with his entourage at exactly 2:17pm and was received by the widow of the deceased, Mrs Holiness Akoka, his three children and family members.
Bishop Adegbite prayed that God would never abandon the bereaved family.
Meanwhile, the Commission has promised to support Mrs. Holiness Akoka to go on pilgrimage to Israel in the next pilgrimage exercise as a fulfillment of the long life ambition of her late husband, which he was not able to actualize before the cold hands of death took him away.
The NCPC boss further assured that the Commission would provide educational support for the three children of the late astute Journalist.
Bishop Adegbite also promised to enroll the children of the late journalist in his family foundation programme for financial support annually.
It would be recalled that the late Albert Akota was among the Journalists who covered the first assumption of office of the 4th Substantive Executive secretary of NCPC, Bishop Stephen Adegbite.
He has also covered the Commission for over five years and until his demise ,he was a reporter with the people’s daily newspaper, Abuja.
He died on the 16th march, 2024 after a brief illness.
The Commission prayed that the Lord grant his soul of the departec eternal rest.
