Onyeka: Far thee well

I’ve told my family how I want to be buried. Do it quickly, quietly, and privately. Celebrate me with prayers, lunch or dinner afterward. Share some jokes about me and laugh. Mourn, but not excessively. Make merriment and then go about your business.

If my friends want to celebrate me, they should do so while I’m alive, so I can enjoy it with them, not when I’m gone and have no idea.” she said.

I became very close to Ms. Onyeka Onwenu in the 1990s in my early years as an entertainment reporter with the great Daily Times, publishes of the first Evening paper in Nigeria, Evening Times that I started my journalism career with.

i may not recall what really brought us together but all I know is that her office door was always open for me anything I came calling and I was always warmly received.

Where do I start telling the story of Onyeka and I?

Well let me start from when she was the Lagos State chairman of Performing Musicians Employers’ Association (PMAN,) with Daniel Wilson as her vice chairman.

PMAN members based in Lagos used to congregate at Madam Blessing Dokubo-Russell’s Niteclub/studio for their monthly meetings and it a must attend for the few entertainment reporters of those days. That is where I think I came to close to Onyeka who aside Christy Essien-Igbokwe, was Nigeria’s most popular female act.




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