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 Communication from Wellesley College, Massachusetts, and an MA in Media Studies from The New School for Social Research, New York.

On 30 July 2024, Onwenu passed out after performing at a friend's birthday party in Lagos. She was immediately taken to Reddington Hospital where she was confirmed dead.

The song "one love " has run the nation Nigeria for its immense touch in the hearth of all citizens and to everyone who has a religious heart towards a peaceful coexistence between man.  

God bless her and its so sad to loose a wonderful woman with a great heart towards humanity.