Delta Queen Of Highlife Music And 5 Members of Prominent Ijaw Musical Band Die in Ghastly Accident

The Niger Delta Queen of Highlife Music, Ikesima Brown, perished in an automobile accident. Ikesima and six other band members of renowned Ijaw musician Chief Barrister Smooth reportedly perished when their bus crashed with a fuel tanker near the Kwale town in Delta State and the Abuja/Lokoja expressway. The car accident happened on Sunday, June 11, when the band members were driving from Warri to Abuja for a gig. According to reports, the ill-fated van transporting the popular band was hired by a state government to play at the National Assembly members’ swearing-in event in Abuja on Tuesday. An eyewitness who narrated the ghastly accident said 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. The Bayelsa State Go...