Come Friday,17th April,this year,it will be 23 years ago that one of the world’s greatest trumpeters/highlife musicians,Eddie Okonta,died.May his creative and noble soul continue to rest in peace.Amen. Please,join us tomorrow(9.00am to 11.00am),on “JE NWI T’EMI”,the popular and highly-influential news and issues analysis programme of Space 90.1FM,as we remember and pay tribute to Eddy,the composer of the evergreen song,’Oriwo,wo o’. “JE NWI T’EMI”,of course, packs her dynamite with the analysis of national and international affairs,with the raging Coronavirus(COVID-19)in the front burner. As we say here,the world rolls on,we follow it!(Aiye nyi lo,a nto o.)
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28 YEARS AGO….R-L:The late Eddy Okonta,Chief Areoye Oyebola,a former Editor of the DAILY TIMES and ex-Commissioner of Information in the old Western State of Nigeria,who died recently and my humble self,Oloye ‘Lekan Alabi,Ekefa Olubadan of Ibadanland and the first Culture Ambassador of the National Museum and Monument,Ile Ife,at a monthly “JAZZ NITE” of SEGI RESTAURANT,BROKIN HOUSE,Oke Bola/Dugbe Business District,Ibadan,Oyo State,Nigeria,in 1992.
