Announcing the message on his Facebook page, Charles Novia wrote, “The fond memories of a matriarch who begat me and other great men and women will never leave me.

“Rest, my mother. Rest.

“You ran a Great Race.”

In a terse message received by Kabat Esosa Egbon, he wrote, 'I just lost my mum few hours back.'

Both Kabat and Charles are grieving over the death of their mother.