The burial of late gospel singer Olayemi Bolaji, popularly known as Toluwanisings, is scheduled to hold on Monday in Ibadan, Oyo State, weeks after his death.
Funeral arrangements released on the singer’s official Instagram page show that the lying-in-state will take place between 9am and 10am, followed by a burial service from 10am to 11am.
The events will hold at Banjola Event and Conference Centre, No. 20, Hope Road, Alakia, Ibadan.
The funeral poster carries the inscription, “Forever in our Hearts, always in our Lives”.
However, the announcement does not specify where the singer will be buried.
The burial arrangements follow weeks of disagreement between the singer’s family, widow and associates over where he should be laid to rest.
His father, Mr Muniru Olayemi, reportedly proposed that his son be buried either at the house he built or beside his late mother in Osun State.
However, his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Damilola Olayemi, was said to have opposed the proposal to bury him at their residence.
The disagreement prompted the family to demand an investigation into the singer’s death and call for the suspension of the planned burial.
The Oyo State Police Command subsequently intervened to prevent further tension between the parties.
The state Commissioner of Police, Olugbenga Abimbola, had received reports of the disagreement, which triggered public exchanges across social media platforms and other communication channels.
In a move to resolve the dispute, the singer’s widow, father and associates, including Oyindamola Esther, Babadunni Gbolabo and Lawal Ademola Rafiu, signed a peace undertaking before the police commissioner this month.
Under the agreement, the parties pledged to stop public exchanges, interviews and social media publications concerning the disagreement.
The family had earlier announced that the gospel singer died in the early hours of last month.
