Obasanjo, others lay wreaths to honours fallen heroes
From KABIRU YUSUF, Abuja

PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday led top government officials in the annual wreaths laying in Remembrance of the nation’s fallen heroes at the Memorial Arcade, Abuja as part of this year’s commemoration of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day.
The 2007 ceremony was flagged off by President Olusegun Obasanjo and the Senate President, Chief Ken Nnemani, along with the Speaker of the House of Representative, Alhaji Bello Masari, members of the diplomatic corps and top military personnel who grace the occaision.
The ceremony, which is celebrated on every 15 of January 15th in honour of members of the Armed Forces of Nigeria who lost their lives during service across the world, included the traditional 21 gun salutes that added colour to the occasion.
A part from the president and other government’s officials who laid the wreaths, others were the Chief of Defence Staff, General Martin Luther Agwai, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Andrew Owoye Azazi, Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ganiyu Adekeye, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Paul Dike, and the Inspector General of Police, Mr Sunday Ehindaro.
Others were the Minister of Defence, Chief Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi, Minister of State for Defence, Mr Mike Onolememem, and Mrs. Aisha Lemu, the widow of late Major-General Salihu Musa Lemu who died last year in the Donnier Aircraft that crashed on the high mountains in Benue state.
The National Chairman of the Nigerian Legion, Group Captain Charles Nnaboihi, who was the last to lay the wreath at the ceremony, commended the federal