Israel Njemanze was a notable highlife musician who sang to the delight of Nigerians in 1950s. Unfortunately, his life was cut short by some assailants who killed him, dumped and dismembered his body on the railway line in Mushin, Lagos. His killers were later tried, sentenced to death and hanged. FRANCIS FAMOROTI, Head, Judiciary writes. Israel Njemanze .a.k.a Nwoba was a soldier and highlife musician who made waves between 1949 and 1955 before his gruesome murder. He was reputed for being the leader of the band known as ‘Three Night Wizards’. He was a crowd-puller at every performance. However, he nursed the ambition of building a hotel in Port Harcourt, where he would settle down to play music after his retirement from the armed forces. This plan was not to be as Njemanze was murdered on Friday, April 7, 1955 in Mushin, Lagos by unknown assailants. As a soldier, he lived with his family at the Command workshop, Yaba, Lagos. He later formed a band with two guitarist friends hen...
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Mother Africa as is being portrayed by it's inhabitants, an almost virgin vast continent of acres upon acres of fertile lands and breathtaking landscape. Set right in the heart of a tropical region with lots of resources yet untouched.The people are being frustrated, though their brethrens rule over the various lands, chain reactions of bad governance, hatred, poverty disease, hunger and starvation seems to be so prevalent.Hence the solemn desire to discover a truly dynamic indidual who can transform the lives of it's populace and thus revive and sustain the hopes and to completely the eradicate from the hearts of the hearthen, the potent fear which came with a realisation that even the leaders who are descendants of this great mother Africa can so viscious alter it's progress and then fail in it's original desire to guarantee a better place for my brethren.