June 12 is a day set aside to celebrate democracy in Nigeria. It's a day in history book:June 12, 1993 presidential election, won by late Chief MKO Abiola but annulled by the then military government,June 12,2013 took with it two Nigerian Icon
The death of Pa fatai Olayiwola Olagunju aka Fatai Rolling dollar came as a shock to everyone who heard it. The highlife musician
died yesterday morning at Marritol hospital in Sam Shonibare street, surulere.
He died at the age of 85 after battling a cancer. He was in Europe on a musical tour of the united states
when he took ill and had to return home to lagos. He was admitted at Ahmadiya
Hospital In Abule Egba area of Lagos, before he was transferred to the Marritol
hospital two weeks ago.
Rolling dollar was known for his
dexterity with the guitar and his last major hit ‘won kere si number wa’.
Rolling Dollar, who had three wives and 16 children, died as the oldest
surviving music artiste in Nigeria.
Barely 24 hours after
the news of Fatai rolling dollar’s death, another tragic news hit the internet....The brain behind the composition of Nigeria’s National Anthem, Pa. Benedict
Odiase is dead. He died on Wednesday night in his sleep at his Oregun, Lagos
home. His transition, which occurred a few hours after the death of yet another
legendary singer, Pa. Fatai Rolling Dollars, left Nigerians in mourning mood.
President Goodluck
Jonathan had described Pa Odiase as a ‘courageous police officer who lived an
exemplary life, and who had in death, bequeathed an indelible legacy to the
nation which would continue to inspire the present and future generations of
Nigerians to greater heights of accomplishments’.
With the death of two
great artistes under 24 hours, the Nigerian Entertainment industry is once
again bereaved, even as the country has recorded the loss of prominent artistes
in the recent past.
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