One-time Speaker of the House of Representatives, Agunwa Anaekwe, who died on 5 July, 2025, will be buried on 17 October 2025.
He was 69 years old.
A statement signed by the burial committee’s head of Media & Publicity, Sub Committee, Ifeanyi Afuba, reads:
The date has been fixed for the interment of late Agunwa Anaekwe, former Speaker of the House of Representatives.
His remains will be committed to Mother Earth on Friday, October 17, 2025, at his Adazi-Ani country home, Anambra State.
The fixture is a joint decision of the Anaekwe Family and the Central Funeral Committee.
Late Chief Agunwa Anaekwe passed on on July 5, 2025, after a period of illness. He was aged 69.
An acting President of the National Association of Nigerian Students during his undergraduate years, late Agunwa Anaekwe won election into the House of Representatives in August 1992 on the platform of the Social Democratic Party. On inauguration of the National Assembly on December 5, 1992, he was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives and served in that capacity till the military intervention of November 17, 1993.
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We seize this opportunity to clarify that the family name is ANAEKWE and not any other variant in circulation.
Details of the funeral programme will be communicated in due course.
IfeanyiChukwu Afuba
Chairman, Media & Publicity, Sub Committee.
Anaekwe’s burial will be a solemn reminder of his role in Nigeria’s political development and the respect he earned across party lines.