Niger Delta highlife queen, Ikesima Brown, and five members of a prominent Ijaw musical band, Chief Barrister Smooth, have died in a road crash.
They were said to be on their way to Abuja to play at the 10th National Assembly inauguration on Tuesday, 13 June 2023.
The incident occurred on Sunday. June 11, 2023, when a bus rammed into a petrol tanker on the Abuja-Lokoja highway.
Reports said that the ill-fated vehicle conveying the popular band was engaged by a state government to play at the swearing-in reception of National Assembly members
According to a witness’ account, the band members boarded a train from Warri to Kogi and were on their way to Abuja when the Toyota Sienna 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, Sololo, Tuku Eniekebi and one other.
