{"id":1266066,"date":"2022-12-16T14:32:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/sad-scenes-as-popular-gospel-musician-is-laid-to-rest-video\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T14:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T14:32:12","slug":"sad-scenes-as-popular-gospel-musician-is-laid-to-rest-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/16\/sad-scenes-as-popular-gospel-musician-is-laid-to-rest-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad scenes as popular gospel musician is laid to rest [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Popular Nigerian gospel musician, Sammie Okposo, has been buried. <\/p>\n<p>The final funeral rites came off on Thursday, December 15, 2022, in Lagos Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old was interred at a private cemetery in Ikoyi following a burial service.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>It was a difficult moment for friends, families and scores of sympathisers who came to pay their last respects.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Uzioma Okposo, could not hold back her tears as his casket was lowered into the grave while she said her final goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>Colleague gospel singer, Nikki Laoye, took to her Instagram page to share excerpts from the burial rites which have left several fans and followers heartbroken.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nigerian gospel singer slumps, dies at 51<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More details on death of popular Nigerian gospel musician<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Okposo died on November 25, 2022, in his sleep.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-451.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2188930\"  \/><figcaption>The late Sammie Okposo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He was the CEO of Zamar Entertainment and collaborated with many gospel artistes.<\/p>\n<p>He was survived by a wife and children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A video from the ceremony attached below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CmM-JEzPysZ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"HfrQSl5Rq50\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau At 9:55AM on Adom TV (16-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HfrQSl5Rq50?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nigerian gospel musician, Sammie Okposo, has been buried. The final funeral rites came off on Thursday, December 15, 2022, in Lagos Nigeria. The 51-year-old was interred at a private cemetery in Ikoyi following a burial service. It was a difficult moment for friends, families and scores of sympathisers who came to pay their last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1266067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266066","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=1266066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}