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THE LOST OF A FEMALE LEGEND MS. ONYEKA ONWENU

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  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...