Thursday, 13 June 2013

The Death of Legendary Icons.




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
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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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