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GidiWoodsMan:
idk why homosexuality is such a sensitive topic this half of the globe but she made a lot of valid points (i don't agree with the dirty/unkempt characterisation)

people should be allowed to enjoy their sexuality so long as they're consenting adults, are not causing injury to anybody & are not paedophiles...female soccer remains an abberration though

MetaPhysical:
Wow! Unbelievable!

I dont believe we have a Music Hall of Fame in Nigeria. If we do I dont know it. But I know someone who can create and run a Nigerian Music Hall of Fame......or a Yoruba Music Hall of Fame.

Naptu, I bow for you o!

But why do we tear down monuments that could be preserved for tourism? Like Benson Hotel was torn down. Thats history. Olaiya house at Tinubu was torn down. Why?

I had a picture of Fela and his siblings when they were little. It was him, Beko and a girl. Is that who Dolapo is? Thieves have taken over, we worship jagudas now as legends. The real legends of society are forgotten. I doubt if three out of ten people in Nigeria can list Mrs Ransome Kuti's sacrifice and contribution to social progress....not to mention her legacy through her children.

Water No Get Enemy. My best Fela hit. If i dey that club that night I go get up spray am cash.

Naptu, give us a Music Hall of Fame abeg. Even if its hosted on web.....but Id rather it is a monument and funded by Yoruba Arts and Cultural Endowment.

MetaPhysical:
Bro, im jealous the way you talk about these events and especially the characters. Im wishing I was around to jump all these places you guys describe. I know Lagos very well...but my knowledge came after many of these artistes were tired and retired....or dead! My grandfather for instance spoke lovingly of Late Saka Olayigbade, an Apala singer, and he said all the great music and entertainment of Lagos, and Nigeria for that matter, happened like a heavy rain shower that came down...then when it stopped the ground dried and many people missed the good down pour.

Im led to believe you were a tv personality or someone very connected in entertainment back in the days, a music artist, because I am yet to see anyone beat your knowledge on archived music and its history.

Ok now, i thought Cabana was on Awolowo Rd. Whats name of club owned by Joke Silva and her husband? Ive seen Stadium Hotel. I saw Bebby Benson Hotel. Ive been to Shrine. Ive seen pictures taken in face2. Never seen paradiso but heard. I heard there used to be a club in Apapa sef.

MetaPhysical:
naptu,
ko de mo pe owo kan soso ran nne
ka ba pade loke, a pade l'odo
ka ba pade l'Eko, dandan ni ka pade l'Ijebu
Ka pade l'Ijebu ke......dandan ni ka la pade li Stadium Hotel!

My Uncle said Victor Olaiya's family owned the demolished Olaiya building at Tinubu. I didnt know that. I used to go in that building as a child with my cousins living at Kakawa. Are all the Olaiya families connected?

He gave me list of some clubs -
Cabana or Cubana. Was this not the same club on Awolowo Rd owned by Joke Silva?
Stadium Hotel
Bobby Benson Hotel
Fela Shrine
Paradiso
Face2
Floating Buka

...na wah for Lagos o! I know Shrine, I know Stadium Hotel, I know Cabana.

WeRblessed:
I have no proof, but she acts like one. I am a lady, and any lady with a boyfriend no matter her shape and size acts girly/lady-like. If you look into the USA female soccer team, the ones that act manly are homosexuals and a few of them are married to females. There is no difference between this talented Ashola lady and South African Caster Semenya, who is married to a woman. You know, because homosexuality is a taboo in all most Nigerian cultures, and as a Muslim that she is, she will not make it obvious because of her religion, but if it barks like a dog and walks like a dog it's certainly a dog. Nigerian and Cameroonian female soccer teams have more lesbians than any other teams in the world. Also, they are the dirtiest and unkempt-looking female soccer teams in the world.

That you play men-dominated sports does not mean you should look like men, dress like men, and walk like men.

One of the gifts that God gave to women in this world is to look beautiful. If you are a woman and don't dress well, walk feminine, or talk like one then something is not right.

These are just my humble opinion though.

masseratti:
I didn't even read your trash very well? Dr Victor Olaiya died in penury? Haaaa..... Lolzzz I doubt if tuface has the man's money, and am damn serious, he died in penury? You must be a joker.. His real estates am aware of only is worth over 4billion naira, #fact, non of his children ask him for money to eat... All I repeat all of them are successful in their chosen professions.

adeniyi65:
they did good.association of olden actors and actresses
meanwhile,I miss 2face version in the cover.that omunwana jor,Katee ×2 omo du dajo

Obey, KWAM1, others pay tribute, as Highlife music legend, Victor Olaiya, dies at 89

By Opeyemi Kehinde, Lagos @kennysous | Published Date Feb 12, 2020 22:11 PM

Nigerians from all walks of life have started paying tributes to the Nigerian Highlife music legend, Sir. Victor Olaiya, who passed on Wednesday in Lagos. Olaiya, who was aged 89, was said to have died this afternoon at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, where he was admitted after a brief illness.

In a statement confirming his death, the Managing Director of the Evergreen Music Company Limited, Bimbo Esho, said: “The entire music world wish to announce the death of a legend of highlife music – one of the last man standing, the last of the originals, Dr Victor Olaiya, OON. “This untimely incident happened at LUTH at exactly 12noon on Wednesday, February 12, 2020.

“We pray that the doyen of highlife music finds repose with the creator while wishing the family and entire music community the fortitude to bear this irreplaceable loss.”

Also paying tribute to the late highlife legend, veteran Nigerian musician, Chief Ebenezer Obey, popularly called “Obey Commander” described Olaiya as one of the African fathers of highlife music, a great entertainer par excellence who had contributed meaningfully to the growth of music across the African continent and Nigeria in particular. Obey added that Olaiya had laid good examples for other African musicians to emulate, having projected good morals in his musical works. “Nigeria has lost one of the African fathers of highlife music; he has contributed his quota to the development of the entertainment industry and I pray his soul rests in peace and God comforts his family. “Olaiya was a very serious-minded person who projected the highlife music throughout the entire world. “He is indeed a man to emulate. He later diverted to do business and he was a successful businessman also,” Obey said.

Similarly, the Mayegun of Yorubaland, Dr Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly called KWAM 1, has condoled with the family and fans of Dr Olaiya. The Fuji music icon, in a statement released by his media office, said Olaiya has bequeathed posterity through his music to Nigerians and Africans in general. “Indeed, Sir Victor Olaiya’s death, though at the advanced age of 89, is a profound loss to the Yoruba race and global music industry; we are nonetheless comforted by the fact that he used his talent to bless humanity in general. “The world would forever be grateful to him for the joy he propagated and has bequeathed posterity through his music. “The thoughts and prayers of Yorubas across the world are with the Olaiya family at home and abroad,” he stated. Born on December 31, 1930, in Calabar, Cross River state, though his parents were from Ijesha-Iju in Ekiti State, Olaiya was extremely famous in Nigeria between the 1950s and early 1980s. His hit songs and albums include ‘Baby Jowo’, ‘Feso J’aiye’, ‘Ilu Le O’, ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘Omopupa,’ ‘Jemila,’ ‘So fun mi,’ ‘Tina Meta,’ ‘Pambotoriboto,’ ‘Aigana,’ ‘Odale Ore,’ ‘Mo Fe Muyan,’ Opataritius,’ ‘Fami Mora O’, and ‘Omolanke,’ among others.

Topshow4real:
Question please, what will happen to her football career when she get married and start giving birth?