Tolu Maintain’s Wife Funmi is Dead

March 25, 2010

By Ayeni Adekunle 

Tolu ‘Maintain’ Ogunniyi

 Former Maintain star Tolu Ogunniyi has lost his wife.

Very reliable sources told NET the singer’s wife Funmilayo Aderonke Ogunniyi with whom he tied the knots in January 2008, passed on early this morning at the University College Hospital, Ibadan.

‘She had been sick earlier but got Okay. She just complained yesterday that she wasn’t feeling her body, and they took her to UCH where they said she had Jaundice’, a source close to the family tells NET.

Sadly, the 25 year-old mother-of-one died today, leaving her husband in serious agony, and her two year-old son Bukunmi stranded.

”It’s sad, very sad”, a family friend who lives in the Ogunniyi’s Felele-Ibadan neighbourhood told NET over the phone.

The late Funmi

The deceased studied Mass Communication at Olabisi Onabanjo University, but ran a Salon in Ibadan, and traded in gold, before passing on.

Funmi’s widower Tolu is a recording artiste who enjoyed prominence in the nineties as a member of popular pop group Maintain. He recently kicked off his solo career with the release of two fresh singles. Sources say Tolu himself is a sickler.

”I wonder who’ll take care of her baby now”, a family friend told NET. ”This is sad, very very sad”.

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27 Responses to “Tolu Maintain’s Wife Funmi is Dead”

  1. Ayana says:

    This is very sad. May her soul rest in peace and may God grant Tolu the fortitude to bear the loss.

  2. ak says:

    tolu God will c u tru…

  3. tunde ayanda says:

    So sori for tolu, may God grant his woman aljannah fidau

  4. Olamoore says:

    A waye ma kun kan ko si. We'll all die some day.

  5. ify says:

    so sorry tolu,accept my heartfelt sympathy.the Lord is ur strenght

  6. My warm condolence to Tolu. Tolu is too young to lose a wife. She was too young to have died too. Just 25 years of age, when life should just be starting. Anyways, death is inevitable. Her time has come. Our time is coming too. Everyone will die. God would take care of the baby.

  7. Joe Asikpo says:

    It is just a pity. may the good Lord Grant her eternal rest

  8. Ebonybie says:

    I cnt help bt cry,its just so sad dis is happening 2 d young ogunniyi family,may d Lord give u Tolu d strength 2 be dre 4 d child she left behind.

  9. Naz says:

    i feel pity for Tolu

    we can only pray for the good Lord to have mercy on her and receive her soul into his bossom…..

  10. adebola helen says:

    be strong in d lord.for he shall always be wit u nd your son.

  11. lani says:

    My condolences. God will comfort you and bukunmi

  12. Owolabi says:

    Death is inevitable all of us wl die one day but it is tragedy 2 lost funmi at dis age, i pray dt may her soul rest in peace ad god wl take care her son.

  13. Owolabi says:

    Notin we can we death is arive but it is pity 4 death dt he 2 wl die one day, i pray dt may her soul rest in peace ad allah wl take care her son ad u as a husband.

  14. Owolabi says:

    Notin we can we death is arive but it is pity 4 death dt he 2 wl die one day, i pray dt god shd bles her soul, ad allah wl take care her son ad u as a husband.

  15. linda yerumoh says:

    i know its not easy but GOD will console.he will always be there for u.

  16. Oladixtinct says:

    funmi u know, i will never 4get u, rest in the blossom of the lord, and mr olu, life goes on………………………….

  17. HAPPY BADMUS says:

    TOUL MAINTAIN,i him very sorry for your wife main her sole rest in peaces amen.

    funmi we all in the world love you rest in the blossom of the lord funmi i love you we all love you;

  18. Livy says:

    May God grant him d fortitude to bear d loss.

  19. Adejorn dotun says:

    Broz tee e pele o

  20. Temmie says:

    eeh yah, this is a bad news. May her soul rest in gentle perfect peace. Tolu God will console you and give u the strength to bear the loss. Please accept my sympathy.

  21. whykay says:

    Oh my god mr tolu am really sorry for you and god will always stay with you and stay with you baby……sorry once again

  22. Stivo 9ice says:

    Sorry!olu manten i whant you to on one thin that this word is like we met one day and we will depart one day,thas life.may she rest in peace.we love u mr yahooze.

  23. Stivo 9ice says:

    Sorry!olu manten i whant you to on one thin that this word is like we met one day and we will depart one day,thas life.we love u mr yahooze.

  24. Stivo 9ice says:

    Sorry!olu manten i whant you to on one thin that this word is like we met one day and we will depart one day,thas life. mr yahooze.

  25. bola says:

    my guy no think am ooooo.

    strugle ccontinue life gose on.

  26. osas says:

    take heart bros 4 God in is control

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