I can vividly recall watching his programs with goosebumps. Used to be so scary and secret-revealing. Even from work, you'll hurry home just to be able to catch up with the program.

Nnkan nbe. What a man!!!

Benbellamor:
He exposed Tb Joshua miracles with extensive evidence and that was when TB Joshua was said to dealt with him, today they're both gone

Which episode was this because I didn't watch it.

enemyofprogress:
2007? How times flies. Rest in peace omo baba ti nje Olawuyi




Women please🙏stop tying wrappers around ur waist without boxers, Mama Esther just fell now!
We witnessed everything😫

Beverlyjean:
South West doesn't mean his show was aired all through the region... I have never heard of him and I grew up in lagos ... what radio station? Unless it was the unpopular one or maybe ibadan or ogun

U are likely to be btw 10-18yrs

obembet:


U are likely to be btw 10-18yrs

Madam I'm over 30yrs ... its not everyone that's interested in mgbati mgbati... I am not a local breed .... I don't watch and never watched low class channels on TV... when I was busy watching programmes like family guy , the Simpsons , movie magic , Rich and famous on E Entertainment... E true Hollywood stories, watching la liga with my brothers ... its one local program u think i would go tune in to... the only local programme I was interested in during my early teens was " who wants to be a millionaire " .... u really think everyone has time for local stories and programmes

obembet:
When Kola Olawuyi died in 2007 at the age of 44, a lot of good people shed tears.
The man once ruled the airwaves with his Iriri Aye radio program that I grew up to.

When it's 8pm on Fridays in the South West, it's normal to see a lot of people huddled up around radio sets in street corners, homes and electricians' workshops as they listened to Kola Olawuyi's program. It was a weekly ritual we grew up to.

Kola Olawuyi was larger than life. The number of cases he tracked down and brought to life have not been done by anyone else around here since his death. No one has had that kind of confidence since. Reverend King's case was brought to light by him. Churches whose owners buried people alive in their buildings as rituals to draw crowd.

A lot of cases of abused children and people claiming to be witches to hurt others. Aja ile (underground killing houses) stories where kidnappers' dens were raided by him and brought to light.

Blood ritual killings and ritualists in the south west. Heck, there was a woman called Malaika that said she was God and created everyone and could do what she liked with anyone until Kola Olawuyi dragged her to light, and more.

The man was fearless and appeared unstoppable. Listening to him was scary and exciting. On one hand you admired his courage. On the other, you feared for his life. It wasn't surprising then that when he died, a lot of people's default setting was "Oh, they got him finally." Perhaps even he had that thought at the back of his mind, hence, at the end of every show, he'd always say: "Aa ma be obe nii besu, atelese a bena wo. Eni ba ni a ma bo nikan lawa o ni de ba nle" (loosely translated we'll always go out to work. It's those that don't want us to return that we won't meet when we return). His life was a mystery too. Even though he was a member of the Redeemed Church, the number of occultic cases and ritual killers he took on and exposed made people believe he was occultic himself.

When news of his death broke, the default reaction from most people was that the witches and ritualists he exposed finally got him and killed him. Some said he cut a tree around his house after he was warned not to, hence his death. Others said some occultic groups that he belonged to even cut off his head after his death because he belonged to them.

In the end, to lay all of that to rest, his family had to have an open burial and open casket for the 44-year old so everyone could see that he died of natural causes and wasn't mutilated or anything.

But again, he rode the mystery angle really hard too while he was alive. Maybe he even stoked it.

Whenever it was 8pm on Fridays and you heard Hubert Ogunde's "Sigba Awo" (open the occultic calabash) start playing on Kola Olawuyi's Iriri Aye program, you knew it was going to be a tough night.

Continue to rest in peace.

Source: NigeriaStories

It was a time never to forget in the South West. We also had Gbenga Adeboye in those days. He too died at 45 or there about

BananaPeel:


Was be the voice behind nkon be in Lagos radios on Friday nights?

Yes

VEHINTOLAR:
Haaaa,Nkan Nbe e ! May Kola Olawuyi's soul continue to rest in peace! He was an enigma;a broadcasting phenomenon who dexterously ruled the airwave in the South West then like a colossus that he was ! He was fearless,bold and could confront anyone or anything ! His death was quite painful and shocking to many as at the time.

There is another person in his mold now,his name is BABATUNDE BAMIGBOYE aka "Omo Edema". This guy too is fearless,bold and could confront anyone or anything just like Kola Olawuyi of blessed memory.

What of olumayowa orisatola...

Nkanbe, aired on Saturday-morning, in Abuja by 7 am

Ehmmah588:
I remember following his programs back to back then....Even the guy who replaced him was'nt half as good...

One of the stories I can't ever forget was the woman that carried a pregnancy for 4yrs around badagry axis (that was the first time I heard of a place called oko-Afo). When she eventually put to bed,it was a tortoise and a snail covered in blood I think.....

She did not do scan?

This man opened the way for a lot of people like Segun Adisa, Kolade Alabi and the likes as they used his pattern of programme presentation.
The man was larger than life himself. I thought his family continued the programme by introducing someone who talked like him on Lagos TV.
I never knew he was that young when he died.
Rest on great man

Flier:
We used to believe in this man so much then until he started lying and telling us about ogboju ode ninu Igbo irunmole
His lies is legendary.
Kolade Alabi too,once there is no legit story, the next is to tell lies

I don't think so but that of Kolade Alabi seems to have some lies embedded in his programme

How old are you?
You may not know him if you are 20 and below

Coolsat:
Never heard of him

p3timobi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVUcODwdiOo

God bless you!!

This brings back beautiful memories!!!!

I must watch the full video when I have enough data...

Goodnewsforlife:
u just don’t know anything

Do u care to know what killed him?

He mentioned it loud n clear that there’s a kidnappers den in sagamu n said he was on a mission to unravel it n also said another one is in Ibadan, that was d genesis of his problem because he used to say it live that many people are warning him not to say anything about it


Years later after he died we heard about soka in Ibadan, till today Jonathan gave an order from above to bring d case to abj n since then nobody heard anything

We never see person wen go tell us d sagamu own but in your mind u believe all those things were lies

I guess u don’t know about S.T soap that he exposed then?

Many of u self

Egbon please I'll like to know more about that ST Soap saga sir

Gentlesoul2021:


What of olumayowa orisatola...

He is dead too,equally good though.

Kukutente23:

Oh plzzzz

Kola Olawuyi was actually glamorizing occultism then.
I remember a specific show where a woman was shown who was said to be drying up because of some occultic affliction. Years later it turned out it was actually cancer she had but how could villagers know?

hmmmm
The presenter I know that may have fake version of narration is that Kolade Alabi of "Gbankogbi" who held us spell bound in Akure those days.
The guy will just come up with some fables. Where I lost interest was a guy he brought to the station and asked that no one should laugh at his predicament because he slept with a woman and the gbola was no longer functioning.
2 hours programme , 1 hour 30 minutes will be for advertisement, the rest 30 minutes na fabu.
But Kola Olawuyi's own seems real sha

nihinlade:
He was also on TV. His show was like Agbara nla of Mount Zion. Every Sunday we don't miss it. I used to believe he was an old man until I was told that he wore make up to make him look old. He also usually dress like an occurtic person using Oja.

Wow, no wonder ST soap that was the most popular soap then did not stand the test of time.

OSE ST MA RE O.. E (X2)
OKAN DARA FUNWE LASAN, OKAN DARA FASO FIFO, ELO ST KERIDI ORO WA, GBOGBO KOKORO ARA KOJOGBO, GBOGBO IDOTI E O LE RAYE, EELA ISAPA EWA BI GBA LO, ON FOSO MO KII JE KASO OSA, OLE KOKO KII JEWO O JARE .......

U be legend

obembet:


Yes

Wow,listened a lot in the late 90s. I didn't understand Yoruba very well then but my guys would explain the difficult ones for me.

Larryndelaw:
That's why you prefer military regime to civilian regime. You don't know what Nigeria has gone through

See where u carry Mata go

Beverlyjean:


Madam I'm over 30yrs ... its not everyone that's interested in mgbati mgbati... I am not a local breed .... I don't watch and never watched low class channels on TV... when I was busy watching programmes like family guy , the Simpsons , movie magic , Rich and famous on E Entertainment... E true Hollywood stories, watching la liga with my brothers ... its one local program u think i would go tune in to... the only local programme I was interested in during my early teens was " who wants to be a millionaire " .... u really think everyone has time for local stories and programmes

I don't need to argue with you. Enjoy Ur day my dear

I still remembered those days.
He was one of my favorites then.

007s:
A o ma be obe ni be isu, atelese abe ona wo, eni o ba ni a ni dele, ni a o ni de ba nile

Kola Olawuyi and Gbenga Adeboye, are two irreplaceable legend

Ko dudu ko pupa, ko kuru ko ga, ko tinrin ko sanra, sugbon o firunmu se fensi ete...

Wow! Time flies. A legend indeed.
The evil ones were always on edge but we learnt a lot about their ways. Probably Soka wouldn't have happened if the security forces paid enough attention.

Another person making waves now is Oriyomi Hamzat, the one who is following up on the Ramon Adedoyin murder case.

johnjose68:


It was a time never to forget in the South West. We also had Gbenga Adeboye in those days. He too died at 45 or there about

The two were friends. Yinka Aiyefele got to Kolawole Olawuyi through Gbenga Adeboye. Both died at 40+

Ehmmah588:
I remember following his programs back to back then....Even the guy who replaced him was'nt half as good...

One of the stories I can't ever forget was the woman that carried a pregnancy for 4yrs around badagry axis (that was the first time I heard of a place called oko-Afo). When she eventually put to bed,it was a tortoise and a snail covered in blood I think.....

Just imagine, na cruise man self.

Kola Olawuyi: the Legend of A Radioman
When it is Kola's session in SW, whatever your native language, you are drawn to the radio.

Erelu Jesu said him self dey do Cult and was her Client