Rachel died on 30 July 2021 from a heart-related ailment. Rachel Oniga was born in Ebute Metta, Lagos State, in 1957, she is originally from Eku, Delta State in Southern Nigeria. Not long after her divorce, in 1993, she started her acting career. Before starring in her first film, Onome, and her first Yoruba film,…
Fierce political activist Hajiya Gambo Sawaba faced 16 jail terms, public whippings, and having her hair cut with a broken bottle. Married at 13, she served her first jail sentence at age 20, and by 17, she was a politician. Years later, she flew to Abeokuta to visit her mentor Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, who had been teaching her under Margret Ekpo. Hajia Gambo Sawaba was a Nigerian politician, philanthropist, and advocate for women’s rights. She was born on February 15, 1933, and passed away in October 2001. She was elected head of the Northern Element Progressive Union’s national women’s wing and held the position of deputy chairperson of the Great Nigeria People’s Party (GNPP) (NEPU). She received mentorship from Funmilayo Ransome.-Kuti. Hajia Sawaba was born to Ghanaian immigrant Isa Amartey Amarteifio (also known as Theophilus Wilcox) and Nupe woman Fatima Amarteifio of Lavun Local Government, Niger State. Amarteifo, a 1910 immigrant to Nigeria who had graduated from the Ghana School of Survey, applied to work for the Nigerian Railway Corporation. Blacksmith and warrior was the great-grandfather of Fatima’s mother. Mamman Dazu, his son, was the maternal grandfather of Gambo. It is reported that Mamman Dazu was a well regarded warrior and advisor. After relocating to Zaria, Isa Amartey Amarteifio became an Islamic convert. After getting to know Fatima, he married her a few years later. Fatima, a widow, and her late husband, Muhammadu Alao, had three children together already. Sawaba was the fifth of their six children from their marriage. Her name was Hajaratu. The name Hajaratu Gambo comes from the Hausa naming custom that any kid born after the birth of twins was called Gambo. She received her education at Tudun Wada’s Native Authority Primary School. But after her mother passed away three years later and her father died in 1943, she was forced to quit going to school. At the age of thirteen, she was married off to Abubakar Garba Bello, a World War II veteran, who departed after her first pregnancy and never came back. Her subsequent unions ended in divorce. She got into severe conflicts with her husband, Hamidu Gusau, which caused one marriage to collapse. Her peculiar fascination in insane individuals was something that was quite obvious about her as a young child. She conversed with them, made accommodations for a few, and provided food, clothing, and cash to those she could. She was frequently characterized as headstrong, inebriated, and prone to street fights when she was younger.…
Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon, better known by his stage name Shabba Ranks, was a 26-year-old Jamaican performer who traveled to Nigeria in 1992 for the “Lekki Sun-Splash” event. Before the concert later in the day, he stopped by the Kalakuta Shrine to meet Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the legendary Afrobeat artist. He was rather direct about the reason for his visit, of course. In a fit of youthful excitement, he informed Abami Eda right away that he had heard about his smoking heritage and had come to claim his right to brag about having outsmoked Fela. As for the phrase, well, it goes, “If you do not understand your own system, it is not wise to go on a drinking or smoking challenge with another man.” The Ganja Kings, popularly referred to as Baba 70, took up the challenge, puffing and drawing their smokes while joking around. It turns out that Shaba Ranks slept off after his blunt wrapper got bigger and bigger with each successive wrap. History claims the concert manager thrashed him, and when he woke up, he found out he had missed the performance the night before.
Born in the 1940s, Major Daniel Idowu Bamidele; died March 5, 1986.He was put to death by Major General Ibrahim Babangida’s administration for allegedly neglecting to disclose a conspiracy against the government, known as the “Vatsa Coup.” Bamidele and ten other people were put to death after he was accused of plotting to commit treason. The meeting at the guest house in Makurdi with Lt Col Michael Iyorshe and several other officers (Lt Col Musa Bitiyong, Lt Col Christian Oche, Wing Commander Ben Ekele, and Wing Commander Adamu Sakaba) that resulted in Bamidele’s involvement in the conspiracy was due to political criticisms of the Babangida Administration without any discussion of seditious or operational coup details. Bamidele, knowing from his experience in 1983, kept silent about any coups, even though the connections to any coups are debatable. He was arrested, tried by a special military trial, and executed by firing squad on March 5, 1986, along with other people including Major General Mamman Vatsa. In his remarks before the tribunal, Bamidele said. “I informed General Buhari, my GOC, about the coup plot in 1983, and he detained me for two weeks in Lagos. I got punched in the back instead of patted on the back. So how do you want me to file a report on this one? My 19-year career of brilliance and perfection is overshadowed by this trial. With the aptitude that God pleased to bestow upon me, I participated in the Civil War. It’s terrible that I’m facing conviction for something I had to give up on twice. This is a true list of the attributes I was born with, not a flattering statement about myself. It is a cruel twist of destiny that the tribunal president, who judged me…
One benefit of music is that it can make you feel pain-free. Great songs are also straightforward and powerful. The song’s storyline is strikingly similar to other Nollywood tales about a childless woman who is rejected by her in-laws. Daddy Showkey created an enduring song by combining the galala music, ghetto existence, and straightforward storytelling. The chorus of the song is so well-known that almost no Nigerian can’t sing it. In my opinion, Diana was possibly the most popular song during the late 90s and early 2000s, This is the kind of good music that is no longer made.