Babatunde okungbowa biography definition
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OJB Jezreel Set To Launch Kidney Trust Fund
MUSIC producer, Babatunde Okungbowa, popularly known as OJB Jezreel, has teamed up with the Bowtie Club with support from some well-meaning institutions to launch a Kidney Trust Fund with the sole aim of raising funds towards assisting those suffering from kidney problems who want to get treatment abroad.
Weekend Beat gathered the initiative aims to raise over N200m solely for the purpose of providing medical succour to Nigerians who are suffering from kidney ailments. Also, the Foundation will provide patients with a five-year projection in which the initiative is believed to be in a position to build a local facility with modern equipment to render transplant and other associated services to Nigerians according to acceptable international standards.
It would be recalled that in 2013, the Shitta Anthem crooner and producer, suffered a severe kidney failure but got support which enabled him travel
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OJB Jezreel
Nigerian music artist (1966–2016)
OJB Jezreel. | |
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| Born | Babatunde Augustine Okungbowa (1966-07-04)July 4, 1966 Surulere, Lagos |
| Died | June 14, 2016(2016-06-14) (aged 49) Isolo, Lagos |
| Other names | Jiggaman, DJ Young, Bishop |
| Children | 7 including Ayokunle Okungbowa (Ayo Jezreel)[1] |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer, songwriter, record producer |
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| Years active | 1986-2016 |
| Labels | Kennis Music, Amazing Records |
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Babatunde Okungbowa (4 July 1966 – 14 June 2016), popularly known by his stage nameOJB Jezreel or OJB, was a Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer.[2] He died on June 14, 2016, of kidney disease.[3]
Early life
[edit]Babatunde Okungbowa a.k.a. OJB Jezreel was born on July 4, 1966, in Lagos to Chief Anthony Okungbowa and Isabella Abiodun Okungbowa (nee Pinheiro) in a matrimony that produced 5 others. He was the las
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OBITUARY: OJB Jezreel, the ‘Jah man’ who married 3 wives but became ‘half-woman’
Shock!!! That is how many have described the sudden death of Babatunde Jezreel Okungbowa, popular musical artiste and producer better known as OJB Jezreel, which occurred after more than four years of battling acute kidney failure.
Not that his health condition was secret — he was forced to seek public help after doctors said his death was imminent if he didn’t undergo a kidney transplant at the cost of $16,000, which translated to N16m back in 2013.
But he granted an interview to entertainment website thenet.ng just two days ago. And although the reporter did note that OJB “looked frail and was a shadow of his old bubbly self”, there was nothing to suggest that his death was 48 hours away.
After himself admitting that he had come close to dying “two or three times”, OJB had literally become a cat with nine lives — one of that class of peop