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Three Nigerians remembered as US marks 10th anniversary of terror attack
Three Nigerians were among thousands who were remembered as the US marked the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in 2001.
Mr Godwin Ajala, 33, Mr Ignatius Udo Adanga, 62, and Ms Olabisi Shadie Layeni-Yee were among the victims remembered.
The names of the Nigerians are said to be engraved at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York.
Moments of silence
In New York, President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, led the country to
observe a moment of silence at 8.46 a.m local time to coincide with the exact time one of the hijacked planes hit the World Trade Centre in 2001.
Additional periods of silence were observed at 9.59 a.m. and 10.28 a.m. to mark the moments that the two towers at the World Trade Centre fell.
At the commemoration ceremony, President Obama was said to have read a passage from Psalm 46.
Former President George W. Bush, who was in charge during the 2011 attack, also attended the solemn event with his wife, Laura.
The three Nigerians
One of the Nigerians, Mr Godwin Ajala, was a lawyer who migrated to the US in 1995.
He was working as a security officer at the World Trade Centre and some close associates said he was preparing to take his New York State Bar examination before his untimely death.
Mr Ignatius Udo Adanga, was a staff of the planning department of the Metropolitan Transportation Council at the World Trade Centre. He left Lagos as a young man, moved to Liberia and Germany, before migrating to New York some two decades before 2001.
Ms Olabisi Shadie Layeni-Yee, who worked at the World Trade Centre as an assistant manager for International Office Centres, started work there in 1993.
On September 11, she was reported to have phoned her mum, Edith Layeni, who lived in Newark, shortly before the WTC collapsed.
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