Niger Delta singer Ikesima Brown and five members of prominent Ijaw musical band die in auto crash

Niger Delta singer Ikesima Brown and five members of prominent Ijaw musical band die in auto crash

Niger Delta highlife queen, Ikesima Brown and five members of a prominent Ijaw musical band, Chief Barrister Smooth, have died in a motor accident. 

The incident occurred on Sunday. June 11, 2023, when a bus rammed into a petrol tanker along the Abuja-Lokoja highway.

It was gathered 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 in Abuja on Tuesday.

According to an eyewitness 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.