Highlife Queen, Ikesima Brown, 5 Others Die In Auto Crash
Ikesima Brown, Joseph Ekeremieye and Tuku Tebekaimi, among the six Barrister Smooth’s band members who died in fatal accident along Kogi-Abuja Road.
Renowned Niger Delta high life Queen, Ikesima Brown has died in a fatal auto crash.
Daily Report Nigeria reports that the high life maestro died alongside five other colleagues on Sunday in an accident that occured along Lokoja-Abuja road.
Ikesima and her late colleagues were all members of the musical band of Ijaw music legend, Chief Barrister Smooth.
Sources say they were billed to perform in a show in Abuja on Tuesday June 13 before the incident.
Aside Ikesima Brown, other victims who have been confirmed dead in the crash include Joseph Ekeremieye, Tuku Tebekaimi (keyboardist), Hon. Appah Appah, Mariam (dancer) and the driver of the vehicle.
This Life Self….The Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, has expressed deep sadness over the twin accidents in which no fewer than 10 Ijaw indigenes lost their lives on Sunday.
While six band members of a popular Ijaw musician, Barrister Smooth, died in the crash along the Kogi-Abuja Road, the other accident along the Kwale-Asaba highway in Delta State claimed four supporters of the Bayelsa Queens Football Club.
Diri in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Alabrah, on Monday, described it as a Black Sunday for Bayelsa and the Ijaw nation.
He said the state was thrown into mourning as news of the sad incidents filtered in. In a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Daniel Alabrah, on Monday, Gov. Diri, described it as a Black Sunday for Bayelsa and the Ijaw nation.
He said “In one of the crashes along the Kogi-Abuja road, six band members of a popular Ijaw musician, Barrister Smooth, died while the other accident along the Kwale-Asaba highway in Delta State claimed four supporters of the Bayelsa Queens Football Club”
He said the state was thrown into mourning as news of the sad incidents filtered in. According to an eyewitness account, the band members boarded a train from Warri to Kogi and were on their way to Abuja when the Toyota Siena car in which they were travelling had a collision with a fuel tanker, killing them at the accident spot.
The names of the deceased were given as Chief Joseph Ekeremieye, Ikesima Brown, Ebis Awiki, Tuku, and others.
Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has expressed deep sadness over the twin accidents that claimed the lives of at least 10 Ijaw indigenes on Sunday.
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