THE LOST OF A FEMALE LEGEND MS. ONYEKA ONWENU
Ms. ONYEKA ONWENU YOUR LEGACY REMAINS IN OUR HEART Ms. Onwenu was a singer, songwriter, actor, journalist, activist, and politician. President Tinubu, in a statement by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, mourned the passing of the Queen of Songs, whose edifying and mellifluous rendition, ‘One Love’, in the 1990s evoked a fervour of fellowship and harmony. Onwenu hailed from Arondizuogu , a big town in Ideato North , Imo State , southeastern Nigeria , but was raised in Port Harcourt , the capital city of Rivers State, Nigeria . She was the youngest daughter of Nigerian educationist and politician D. K. Onwenu , who died when she was four years old in an autocrash a week before his appointment as Minister for Education, leaving his widow, Hope, to raise five children alone after her husband's family denied her access to his property. Onwenu possessed a BA in International Relations and Commun...