{"id":1227757,"date":"2022-10-18T14:28:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/funeral-date-for-late-ex-bbnaija-star-rico-swavey-announced\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T14:28:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:28:05","slug":"funeral-date-for-late-ex-bbnaija-star-rico-swavey-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/funeral-date-for-late-ex-bbnaija-star-rico-swavey-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral date for late ex-BBNaija star Rico Swavey announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The family of the late Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) star Rico Swavey, who died following an accident, has announced the date set for his burial and funeral.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter post, they revealed that the funeral service will be a two-day event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, October 19, the family is expected to hold a night of remembrance and a candlelight procession at Retro Citi in Victoria Island, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>The event, open to the general public, will begin at 4 pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a heavy heart, we invite all friends and fans of Rico Swavey to his tribute night\/candlelight walk tomorrow as we witness a star supernova. Thank you all,\u201d the tweet read.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, October 20, Rico Swavey\u2019s family will hold a private church and burial service.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With a heavy heart, we invite all friends and fans of Rico swavey to his tribute night\/candle light walk tomorrow as we witness a star supernova. \u2604\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all.<br \/>Signed <\/p>\n<p>Family\/Management team. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VNaqZYx00k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/VNaqZYx00k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rico Swavey \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@iamricoswavey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamricoswavey\/status\/1582277607273336832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rico was involved in a ghastly motor accident on Tuesday. The bad news was conveyed by his fellow Big Brother Naija season 3 ex-housemate, Alex Unusual.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_559366\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Reality-TV-star-Rico-Swavey-at-the-hospital-when-he-was-been-treated.jpg\" alt=\"Reality TV star, Rico Swavey at the hospital while still been treated\" class=\"wp-image-559366 lazy\" title=\"Ex-BBNaija star Rico Swavey is dead\"\/><figcaption><em><strong>Reality TV star, Rico Swavey at the hospital while still being treated<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alex made this known via her Twitter page. She explained that\u00a0<em>Rico Swavey<\/em>\u00a0was still being revived when she left the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>She urged the public to remember Rico in their prayers because of his precarious situation.<\/p>\n<p>Details of what caused the accident and where it happened are yet to be known. But a video of Rico\u2019s car shows the extent of damage to the vehicle. The front of the vehicle was bashed in, and the windshield shattered.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>Meanwhile, the authorities in Lagos say they are investigating the conduct of nurses at a private Nigerian hospital after videos emerged of them filming Ex-BBNaija star Rico Swavey who was brought in for emergency care.<\/p>\n<p>In videos that were posted on social media, the nurses filmed Rico Swavey, whose real name was Patrick Fakoya, as he lay unconscious on a chair where he had been propped up.<\/p>\n<p>The video of his final moments outraged many who said that the TV star had been neglected at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Gbenga Omotosho, Lagos state commissioner of information, told the BBC that the hospital risked being shut down by the government after investigation has been concluded.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rico Swavey<\/em>\u00a0became a reality TV star and ex-BBnaija housemate by default. Moreover, he ventured into the Nigerian movie industry, known as Nollywood.<\/p>\n<p>Known for his role in the \u201cLife 101\u201d drama series, Rico, two years ago released a song titled\u201d Afrosantana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He had a good music and movie career in his lifetime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/funeral-date-for-late-ex-bbnaija-star-rico-swavey-announced\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of the late Big Brother Naija (BBNaija) star Rico Swavey, who died following an accident, has announced the date set for his burial and funeral. In a Twitter post, they revealed that the funeral service will be a two-day event.\u00a0 On Wednesday, October 19, the family is expected to hold a night of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3521,215,27361,7976,749,27362,209,27363],"class_list":["post-1227757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-announced","tag-date","tag-exbbnaija","tag-funeral","tag-late","tag-rico","tag-star","tag-swavey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}