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Just In: Rain Maker, Majek Fashek Passes On

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Nigeria global music export, Majek Fashek is reportedly dead. His death was announced by Joy Tongo former artiste manager to Cynthia Morgan on her Instagram handle @joytongo. She posted,”Legendary musician,Mr MajekFashek,my uncle passed on today in New York City.Majek Fashek was a talented man from Benin City,Edo State. RIP #MajekFashek”

Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly known as Majek Fashek (pronounced as Ma-je-ko-dun-mi Ifa-kii-she-eke), is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and guitarist.[1][2] He is best known in Nigeria for the 1988 album Prisoner of Conscience, which included the multiple award-winning single “Send Down the Rain”. Also known as The Rainmaker, he has worked with various artists worldwide, including Tracy Chapman, Jimmy Cliff, Michael Jackson, Snoop Dogg, and Beyoncé.
Last year the internet was agog with strong rumor of his death,which was later dispelled.

Majek Folabee Shamsudeen
Birth name Majekodunmi Fasheke
Born February 1958
Benin Edo State, Nigeria
Genres Reggae, roots reggae, rock
Occupation(s) singer, songwriter, actor
Years active early 90s—present
Labels Interscope Records
Associated acts Jastix
Monicazation

Fashek was born in Benin City to an Edo mother and a Ijesha father, but identifies with his Benin roots. Various translations of his name Fasheke (Ifa-kii-she-eke) include “high priest who does not lie”, “powers of miracles” and “(system or medium of) divination does not lie”. After his parents separated, Fashek remained in Benin City with his mother, and soon joined the choir in his local Aladura church and learned to play the trumpet and guitar whilst composing songs for the choir.
Musical career
Early 80’s: Jastix
In the early eighties Fashek, who at the time went by the stage name Rajesh Kanal, joined the group Jastix with McRoy Gregg, and Drummer Black ‘Rice. They were best known as the in-house band on the show Music Panorama on NTA Benin, and toured with fellow reggae group The Mandators. Jastix were also session musicians for upcoming reggae singer Edi Rasta, who would later be known as Evi-Edna Ogholi.

Fashek was married to Rita Fashek who inspired the song “Without You”; the couple had four children together, but have since divorced.] In 2015, it was revealed that Fashek was bankrupt and battling drug addiction. After admitting that he needed help, he was admitted into a drug rehabilitation centre in Abuja, but has since recovered, and returned to music.

Besides his struggle with drug addiction, other health conditions required his hospitalization on several occasions. He was rumored dead in September 2019 but his manager quelled the rumors, confirming that Majek had indeed been critically ill, hospitalized at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, England, and in dire need of financial assistance. Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Femi Otedola has pledged to cover all the singer’s medical expenses.


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Zack Orji Survived Two Brain Surgeries, He Is Fine -Actors Guild

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The Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN, says veteran actor, Zack Orji underwent two successful brain surgeries.

The national President of AGN, Emeka Rollas, who revealed this, said he is in good health.

Rollas said that Zack needed to be flown abroad for a post-surgery evaluation, expressing his disappointment at those who spread false information about Zack’s death.

“Because of the internet age, people just want to grow their page and they can spill nonsense, that was why somebody woke up yesterday morning and said Zack has passed on and I quickly reacted.

“Zack is never in a position of seriously needing attention as we speak, if not because of privacy I would have just connected him on the phone here, you will see him.

“He just needs a post-surgery evaluation abroad which we are gradually gathering money to send him abroad for that.

“He has survived two brain surgeries, he is in good health, and he is speaking. For somebody to wake up and say that Zack has passed on, is inhuman,” he said.

Recall that on Thursday, rumours broke out that the actor had died but Emeka Rollas swiftly debunked the claims.

Zack Orji had slumped on December 31, 2023, and was immediately admitted to the intensive care unit of the National Hospital in Abuja, before he was transferred to a private hospital for surgery.

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Women Have To Accept Me, I’m Part Of The Sisterhood – Bobrisky

“Women have no choice. They have to accept me as part of the sisterhood. I’m a woman.”

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Nigerian transgender Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, popularly known as Bobrisky, has declared herself a woman while asserting that women have no choice but to accept her as part of the sisterhood.

This declaration comes in a fresh post with the caption: “Women have no choice. They have to accept me as part of the sisterhood. I’m a woman.”

This declaration follows Bobrisky winning the award for best dressed in the female category.

In response to winning the award despite not being biologically female, many Nollywood stars and concerned Nigerians have voiced their opinions on the shocking event.

Amid the criticism following the award, Bobrisky, in a fresh statement, made it clear that he demands respect from women and everyone else and must not be criticized as she identifies herself as a woman.

He went on to add that women should accept her as part of the sisterhood, as there’s nothing else they can do but accept since she identifies as female.

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Video: Femi Adebayo Told Me He Was Invited by Police for Promoting LGBTQ” – Dayo Amusa

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Nollywood actor, Femi Adebayo, has reportedly been invited for questioning over issues surrounding the ‘Best-Dressed’ female award to controversial Nigerian crossdresser, Idris Okunneye, popularly known as Bobrisky.

JomogNews reports that Femi’s colleague, Dayo Amusa, made this known during a live Instagram session while addressing the controversies over the award, which has generated an online fight.

According to Dayo, Femi Adebayo was summonsed by the police and Muslim community for promoting LGBTQ in Nigeria.

The movie star also slammed Femi’s wife over claims that she is envious of her husband’s career, describing such thought as shallow-minded.

Dayo added that Femi’s wife, Aladuke, has the right to defend her husband but not insult her.

She said, “So initially, I said I wasn’t going to say anything, but at this juncture, I will talk. Let me start from the genesis of this crisis, I am not going back on my words, that Bobrisky didn’t deserve to win the Best Dressed. I know that behind every action, there is a reaction and I don’t have power over anyone’s reaction.

“Aladuke, the wife of Femi Adebayo, me and you don’t have issue until now and I said I respected the way you defended your husband but the way you addressed it, calling me names made me feel you’re shallow-minded. And I want to believe your husband didn’t call your attention to our conversation. He called me this morning and said he thought my post was just a cruise but people were taking things to the extreme and I made him know that we don’t have control over people’s reactions.

“He said Muslim communities are calling his attention to it and that police have invited him for questioning that he was promoting gay.”

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