Remembering Friends & Loved Ones Who Passed Away in the Dana Air Crash

The loss of friends and loved ones is never easy to bear. It is one of the most difficult things to experience especially because there’s a deep void that can never be filled. They say time heals all wounds, but there are some wounds that even the passing of time can not really heal. At best, what we feel is a numbing of the hurt as we struggle to move on without that person who meant so much to us. With every milestone of the passing, something nudges that sore spot and it comes again, that indescribable pain that we felt when we first realized that that person was no longer in this realm.
On Sunday, June 3, 2012, a Dana Air 9J-922 plane from Abuja crashed in Iju Ishaga on the outskirts of Lagos. The crash resulted in the loss of over a hundred and fifty lives. These lives lost were not just part of statistical data, they were family members,  friends, and people loved so dearly. As the anguish rose in our hearts and the pain threatened to tear us we thought of the unfairness of it all. Why us? Why now? Why this?

With every day that passed, we struggled to live each day seeking strength and solace from divinity because it seemed like there was a storm threatening to break loose within us. So with every dusk, we looked forward to a new dawn, for it seemed like the only way to get through.

Three hundred and Sixty-Five days after, the questions still confound us but we trudge on, in faith and love and the blessed memories our beautiful loved ones left behind.

So as we remember the victims of the Dana Air plane crash one year ago, we are grateful for the time we were given to spend with them. We are hopeful for a better tomorrow. We derive strength from within to live on and we know that the light of the lives of the dearly departed shines on brightly.

Rest in peace. Rest in peace.

We remember, with all the love in our hearts, everyone aboard the aircraft as well as the lives that were lost on the ground. This piece is dedicated to the loving memory of all the victims of the ill-fated Dana Airlines flight from Abuja to Lagos on June 3, 2012. 

Onyeka Anyene; 

Harry Lawal; 

Maimuna Anyene; 

Berkisum Yidadi; 

Ebuka Enuma;
Oluchi Onyeyiri;
Sunday Enuma;
George Moses;
Ogechi Njoku;
Noah Anyene;
Kamsiyonna Anyene;
Stamford Obrutse;
Kaiyenotochi Anyene;
Okeke Hope;
Kayimarachi Anyene;
Rev. Ayodeji Cole;
Ngozi Cole;
Noah Anyene;
Ailende Ehi;
Oluwasegun Funmi Abiodun;
Shehu Saad Usman;
Alade Martins;
Onita Jennifer;
Onita Josephine;
Ike Ochonogor;
Joy Alison;
John Ahmadu;
Aquade Roger;
Osunbade Aderogu;
Akowe Fatokun Anjola;
Fatokun Olaoluwa;
Fatokun Ibukun;
Bukhari Maikudi;
Amina Idris Bugaje;
Ajani Adenike;
Ike Abugu;
Adijolola Abraham;
Obot Emmanuel;
Otegbeye Hadiza;
Ehioghae Sonny;
Onwuriri Celestine;
Abikalio Otatoru;
Norris Kim;
Eyo Bassey;
Njoku Charles;
Anibaba Tosin;
Okocha Christopher;
Shobowale Femi;
Phillip Chukwu -Ebuka;
Sparagano Lawrence;
Somolu Oluwakemi;
Ariyibi Temitope;
Mecha Eke;
Ojugbana Amaka;
Ojugbana Christopher;
Hnuna Walter;
Coker Olumide;
Lilian Las;
Mutihir Itsifanus;
Yusuf Ali;
Lt. Col. Jumbo Ochigbo;
Eribake Wale;
Zhai Shutao;
Wang Yu;
D. Awani;
O. Awani;
N. Chidiac;
Rijoel Dhose;
Li Huizha;
Apochi Godwin;
Kang Yi;
Inusa Ahmed;
Faysal Inusa;
Mojekwu Adaobi;
Ibrahim D;
Bamaiyi Adamu;
Ifekawa Jones;
Peter Nosike; Anthony Nwaokoagbara;
Mahmudu Aliyu;
Nnadi John;
Akwaeze Elizabeth;
Dorothy Adedunni;
Echeidu Ibe;
Maria Okwulehie;
Jennifer Ibe;
Oloko Tunji;
Sarah Mshelia;
Ahmed Mbana;
Okonji Patrick;
Oyosoro Rajulie;
Oyosoro Ugbabio;
Kaikai Farida;
David Kolawole Fortune;
Eyinoluwa David Kolawole;
Kaltum Abubakar;
Dakawa Mahmud;
Patience Sunday Udoh;
Asuquo Ini Obong;
Onemonelease Aimanehi;
Onyeagocha Chidinma;
Onyeagocha Ogechi;
Ike Okoye;
Amaka Raphael;
Ijeoma Onyijuke;
Garba Abdu;
Aisha Abdu;
Benson Oluwayomi;
Anthony Opara;
Taiwo Lamidi;
Awodogan Olusanmi;
Obi Chinwe;
Shaibu Memuna;
Major I.G Muhammad;
Nagidi Ibrahim;
Attah Anthonia;
Shaibu Sam;
Ifeanyi Orakwe;
Obinna Akubueze;
Li Rui;
Xie Zhenfeng;
Okor Eseoghene;
Chukwuemeka Okere;
Adekunbi Adebiyi;
Ibrahim Matankari;
Wasa Ruth;
Wasa Awiyetu;
Ojukwu Alvana;
Lawal Anakobe;
Nabil Garba;
Mohammed Falmata;
Ibrahim Jangana;
Okikiolu Olukayode;
Komolafe Olugbenga;
Dike Chinwe;
Dike Chukwuezugo;
Olusola Arokoyu;
Adekola Ayoola;
Akinola Olumodeji;
Olukoya Banji Saka Otaru;
Adeleke Oluwadamilare;
Yusuf Ibrahim;
Ikpoki Obiola;
Aikhomu Ehime;
Levi Ajuonuma;
Mbong Eventus.
Vivienne Atangakak;
Uche Ulasi;
Eke Godwin;
Bidyo;
Mahendra Singh Rathore;
Peter Waxtan