What was OJB Jezreel's last wish?
OJB Jezreel’s last wish was, “I want to lie in a very beautiful place ”, perhaps he wanted a vault. One of his best-kept secrets is that his wife, Mabel, who gave him the greatest donation ever also erred. He confided in a source that the lady took a lump sum of the money he got to church for thanksgiving and he couldn’t complain or tell the world. He was afraid he might be labeled an ingrate.
Did OJB Jezreel go to India?
After the successful transplant, OJB Jezreel was supposed to return to India for a checkup a year after but we gathered from a reliable source that he couldn’t go for want of money. Sadly, our source also insists that for about 10 months he couldn’t afford his drugs or any other treatment for that matter. But along the line, he got some reasonable money and resumed his dialysis. But his condition was already deteriorating because of the 10-month break.
How legendary OJB Jezreel died 3 years after kidney transplant
THREE years after a kidney transplant operation in India, popular Nigerian music producer, singer and multi-instrumentalist, Babatunde Okungbowa, better known as OJB Jezreel, died in the early hours of yesterday in a Lagos hospital. He would have been 50 years old next month.
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His Death, A Lesson About Life
In March, after the death of Olumuyiwa Osinuga, better known as Nomoreloss, so many people wondered why OJB was a noticeably absent figure, either at the hospital or the burial. In truth, it was strange. Nomoreloss was the man who spearheaded the fundraising for OJB’s medical trip to India. The public barked: this man was there for OJB but OJB coul...
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OJB Wasn’T ‘That Cheap’
When he called for help in raising the $16,000 required for a successful transplant, there were doubts over the veracity of his claims. Perhaps the doubts were understandable. The average Nigerian musical artiste leads a bling bling lifestyle easily noticeable in their choice of cars, wears, housing, even women — everything. A man full of wisdom, OJB made no effort to argue when h…
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Rebirth Before Death
When he returned from India in October 2013, OJB headed to church for a thanksgiving. He had so many things to be thankful for, but one he kept harping on was the opportunity experience a “rebirth”. “My experience, for me, is that God has given me a rebirth, a rebirth that means I should have a change of perception, change of mind towards a lot of things,” he told journalists tearily a…
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Once A Man, Later A Half-Woman
After raising all the money he needed to undergo a transplant at an Indian hospital, there was still a snag: finding a compatible donor. “Six people had come forward and none of them was a march per se, apart from the blood grouping,” he said after returning. “My wife came out, tried herself, and it turned out she was a match. We were still hoping it would be someone else but she said t…
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Workaholic, Not A Drunkard
The doubt was just one of the litany of questions generated by his ill-health; his drinking habit was questioned and hastily fingered as the genesis of his anguish. How wrong! OJB was a workaholic who involuntarily perpetuated a cycle of sleeping approximately four hours daily. As he would later admit, it was a lifestyle that should have handed him a stiffer punishment in the form of stroke. …
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A Blessing in Disguise
By his own admission, OJB had a blissful childhood. His family was so rich that when he stubbornly decided to make a career out of music, his family “pulled the financial plugs” to force his hands into abandoning music. He was left alone eventually, but that is not the story. It’s the irony of a man of such affluent background spending several millions of dollars on his daughter’…
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The Destiny Man and His Three Wives
Most polygamous men around advise their sons against it. OJB is no different. But unlike others, he has no regrets at all; he sees his marriage to three women as his “destiny”. “I think it is destiny; there is no other way to explain it,” he once told Punch newspaper. “It is everything. But predominantly, I think it is by design. Some people believe in destiny while some others don’t. I t…
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