- By Halimah Olamide
A popular Nigerian television host Augustine Agbonsunremi Okhiria has lost his wife.
The popular television anchor with the African International Television (AIT) said his wife succumbed to death after a battle with cancer in Canada.
Taking to his social media accounts on Monday to break the news, said he lost his best friend and mother of his children.
In the post titled “I LOST MY BEST FRIEND” Agbonsunremi said “It is with a heavy heart but in total submission to the will of God that I announce the passage of my friend, companion, wife and mother of our children, Mrs. Mercy Agbonsuremi, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, on Sunday, April 16th after a courageous battle with cancer.”
He went further to state that his wife spent her last moments surrounded by her immediate family at the Pasqua Hospital. She was aged, 57.
He said, “Mercy was an exceptional mother, wife and sister who devoted her entire life to loving and caring passionately for family, friends and everyone who came her way.
She was a devoted Christian.
“Mercy was a banker, businesswoman and a Canadian certified immigration consultant.”
He said the burial will be held in Canada in accordance with her preference on a date to be determined by the family.
She is survived by her husband, children, and her brothers and sisters.