The management and staff of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) will on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 trade tackles in a novelty football match to honour the memory of its late former General Manager, Barrister Sotonye Inyeinengi-Etomi, Esq. who passed on in November 2023 at the age of 66.
In a release made available to NEWSWIRE Law & Events Magazine, the organisers disclosed that the game would take place at the Sharks Stadium, located on Hospital Road, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, and would commence at 2.00 pm.
‘This event,’ the release adds, ‘holds immense significance in honoring the memory of our late GM and celebrating the impact he had on our lives … May this tribute match be a fitting goodbye to a man who truly made a difference in all our lives.’
Recall that the family of the departed legal luminary has already announced a programme for his funeral rites, which would commence on Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 5.00pm with a Service of Songs at Christ Church in Old GRA, Port Harcourt. This will be followed the next day (Thursday, February 1) by an Evening of Hymns and Praise at 24, Ernest Ikoli Street, also in Old GRA, Port Harcourt. On Friday, February 2, there will be a Commendation Service at the aforementioned Christ Church, Port Harcourt, from 8.00 am. Later that day – at 12 noon – the Funeral Service will hold at St. Peter’s Cathedral Church in Okrika, the deceased’s ancestral home, where he would be laid to rest.
The obsequies for the late Barrister Inyeinengi-Etomi will be concluded on Sunday, February 4 with a Thanksgiving Service, at Christ Church, Port Harcourt from 10.00 am.
