Buhari mourns NYSC Anthem composer Adeniran

President Muhammadu Buhari has  condoled with the Adeniran family, their friends and associates over the passage of the composer of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) anthem, Assistant Venerable Oluwole Isaac Adetiran, who passed on at 75.

Buhari in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, described Adeniran as an accomplished musicologist.

“The President urges the family to take solace in the quality of life lived by the departed, having left his footprints on the sands of time as composer of the NYSC Anthem, sung round the country, and inspiring innumerable youths.

“President Buhari prays God to rest the soul of the former Head, Department of Music, The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Director of Music, Celestial Church of Christ Worldwide, and holder of the Member of the Order of the Niger (MON) National Award.

“He charges the younger generation to learn lessons from the devotion of the departed to both secular and spiritual things, and excelling in all,” the statement read.