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It’s Painful I Couldn’t Settle Down With My Wife At Old Age – Bongos Ikwue reflects on late wife

Eighty-three-year-old legendary songwriter and composer, Bongos Ikwue, speaks about his songs, family, and other sundry issues in this exclusive interview with Channels Television.
Enjoy the excerpts…
You’re going to be 83 next month, on June 6. How are you doing, sir?
I guess I’m doing very well. I’m doing okay. I’m happy to be here. I’m happy to be with you, too.
One of the songs we know you for is Still Searching, and after a beautiful journey, your wife passed on, and then you did the song.
I know this is one of the most painful experiences of your life, but it has also shaped you in some way or the other. Speak to us about that.
I don’t think any human is a robot.
So, the consciousness of feeling and missing somebody is so profound, and it’s difficult to explain to anybody.
My dear wife always told me something. She always looked forward to the day when I stop running around the whole country and settle down at an old age so we could have a lot of time together.
It’s very painful, it never did happen. When she passed on, I dedicated a song.
I’ll just draw an inference from your song, Still Searching, for the average Nigerian. So, some will say Nigerians are still searching for good governance or the very best of it. What message do you have for the government yet again from the benefit of your wisdom?
It’s a very difficult question for me to answer because I know how little we know as humans. Our knowledge is so infinitesimal.
I don’t feel qualified to talk about anything because there’s so much that we don’t know about. Maybe the only reason I think I know is because I don’t know at all.
But governance, to me, put very simply, means service. Talking about service, service is the only commodity today for sale.
Service must also transcend into whoever is leading; any country must learn to render service first. It takes a little to understand. Maybe I don’t quite understand what I’m talking about, but I can feel it. Once you’re unable to render service and you are just taking, that’s a problem.
Your life has been one of service. Hasn’t it?
To give is much more beautiful than to take. If you have ever given something to somebody who actually needed it at a particular time, the feeling is unbelievable to express.
Let’s talk about all the things you have given us – timeless hits. What are some of your fondest memories about your journey, your art, and all of that?
There are quite a lot of them, but when I first met my wife, I didn’t think she would say yes, and she did say yes.
That’s unbelievable, isn’t it? At that point, she looked so pretty, yeah. And I said to myself, “Is this really going to happen?” and it did happen.
There are still young people, by the way, who love your music. They were not born when you were performing or when you did those songs, but they listened to your song and they fell in love. How do you feel about that?
I really don’t know. There are lots of things I don’t know, but I think it is the hand of the Almighty. What I don’t understand sometimes, I think God is the most complex of all beings.
He’s the ultimate mystery, we take him for granted.
I would say everything that happened to me carried the hand of providence along with it. I’m not a religious person, but I’m a total believer in God Almighty. There are two different things, maybe we’ll talk about that later.
I don’t know if you still write music.
I’m working on what I call the Power of Zero, I don’t see how I can condense that into a song. They told us in school that zero is nothing. That’s not true; zero is not nothing. Zero is only zero.
The power of zero is the ultimate power. Zero is not greedy, if you divide anything by zero, you get infinity. Zero is ruthless. If you multiply anything by zero, it takes it to a level, leaves it right there.
And zero is very humble, you can laugh at zero, but it remains zero, and it does all it has to do.
I believe that God Almighty assumed the humility of zero to be the Almighty God, and if you want to be like God, you have to become as humble as zero and completely do away with arrogance.
Are you going to write an album on this?
Some songs are impossible to write. What I feel is so big, I don’t think I have the energy or the power to subdue it, particularly with the power of zero.
I started writing some songs from long time ago. I did a song called Man and Man. I said a man will steal from someone, and the same man will give to another.
How a man discovers arms and weapons and things for destruction, the same man struggles to develop medicine to cure.
So a man gives, a man takes, a man builds up, a man cuts down, and this has expressed the power of zero from the very beginning.
Negative and positive must coexist for there to be existence; otherwise, there will be no existence. I didn’t do that, the Almighty did it.
If there’s no tall, there’s no short, there’s no fat, there’s no limb, there’s no white, there’s no black, there’s no hell, there’s no heaven.
There’s no God, there’s no devil. Everything in this world is processed through the coexistence of positivity and negativity.
You also have a legacy, and I wonder what you want your legacy to be. What is that one thing that you want to be remembered for?
If only we knew how much we don’t know, humility will be the only legacy that I will call a legacy because there’s nothing we own, nothing we understand.
Even the Almighty has been warning us. He gave you two ears and one mouth – that means, listen more than talk, always.
When you go to a place and all you’re doing is talking, you are failing yourself, you are failing everything.
Entertainment
Nigerian film maker, Kayode Peters dies in Canada

Renowned Nigerian film and stage producer, Kayode Peters, has passed away in Canada.
His death was confirmed on Friday by his longtime colleague, comedian Steve Onu, popularly known as Yaw, who spoke to Peoples Gazette.
“Yes, he is,” Yaw responded when asked to confirm Peters’ passing.
He said, “I am still trying to speak with his brother but he is not picking.”
As of the time of reporting, the circumstances surrounding Peters’ death remain unclear.
Peters was widely known for his contributions to Nigeria’s entertainment industry, particularly in television and theatre.
He gained prominence for his work on popular stage plays and sitcoms, including Extended Family, and was the creative force behind the hit early-2000s comedy series Flatmates.
Celebrated for his influence in shaping contemporary Nigerian theatre and television, Peters leaves behind a legacy of creative excellence that inspired a generation of performers and producers.
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‘I think marriage is not for me’ – Frank Edoho announces second divorce

Famous Nigerian media personality and TV host, Frank Edoho, has revealed that his second marriage has crashed.
Recall that Edoho married his second wife, Sandra Onyenuchenuya, after his first marriage to Katherine Obiang hit the rocks in 2011.
Featuring in a recent episode of the Tea With Tay podcast, the TV personality disclosed that he and his second wife had separated.
He explained that he did his best for the two marriages but they all failed.He said, “Maybe I’m not good at marriage, I must confess.
The two women I had been married to are not my soul mates. Love of your life is different from your soul mate.
The love of your life is the person who comes to your mind when you think of love. But your soul mate is someone who understands you even before you express yourself and you naturally align with.
“I know that I went above and beyond for the two marriages. I carried my partner… I can abandon everything for her. But you don’t blame them for falling out of love with you.
Take the footballer Kaka for example, he’s a Brazilian and he looks as handsome as an Indian.
Very handsome guy, even when he retired from football, he was still handsome. But his wife divorced him. Do you know what she said? ‘He is too good’.”
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Tiwa Savage: “Usher is so lovely”
Tiwa Savage is widely known for her genre-blending sound and magnetic stage presence.
Afrobeats superstar Tiwa Savage has disclosed that American R&B star, Usher Raymond is a lovely personality.
Savage recently made this known during a chat with Rebecca Judd on Apple Music 1 during an intimate and entertaining session.
The self-acclaimed Africa’s number one bad girl reflected on her journey as one of Africa’s most influential music exports while opening up on being brought out by Usher as a surprise guest during his sold-out O2 Arena shows in London.
The ‘Somebody’s Son’ singer said, “That was the second time, the first was at Global Citizen in Ghana,” she shared.
“This one was extra special. I was so nervous, but Usher is just so lovely and professional.
”Tiwa Savage is widely known for her genre-blending sound and magnetic stage presence.
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