Dr Bassey Akinde, wife of the Most Rev. Adebayo Akinde, pioneer Anglican Bishop of Lagos Mainland and retired Archbishop of Lagos Province, is dead.

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Dr Akinde died at the weekend in a Lagos hospital at the age of 77.

The Lagos Mainland Anglican Communion Synod Secretary, Rev. Canon Adesanya Asaolu, confirmed the death in an interview.

The deceased, a retired academic, obtained Bachelor of Pharmacy from the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun, and Master of Philosophy from Sussex University, United Kingdom.

She was a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Pharmacy, OAU. She is survived by her husband, three sons and several grandchildren.

The Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Archbishop Henry Ndukuba, and former Primate Peter Akinola, along with other church leaders have sent condolence messages to her family.

They described her as a virteous woman who would greatly be missed.