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‘Won Kere Si Number Wa’ – Remembering Fatai Rolling Dollar four years after his death

Today marks the fourth death anniversary of Fatai Olayiwola Olagunju, better known as Fatai Rolling Dollar, who was survived by three wives and 16 children.

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Dagrin, Goldie, Amaka Igwe, Kefee, Zara Gretti, others to be honoured at Nigerian Entertainment Conference

The Nigerian Entertainment Conference, holding on Wednesday April 22 at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, will take time out to specially recognise some prominent Nigerian entertainment personalities who have passed on over the past five years.

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#HEADIES2014: Kefee honoured along with other late music stars

At the awards ceremony, which held at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, the ‘Kokoroko’ singer was remembered at the venue with a recap video of her burial and highlights of her life projected on the large screens for the fans to see.

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‘Fatai Rolling Dollar caned his grown up children’, first son says

The retired civil servant describes his father as a disciplinarian who carried out the biblical injunction of not sparing the rod and spoiling the child to the latter by caning any child who offends him no matter the age or size.

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VIDEO: Benedict Odiase – Watch a tribute to the man who composed the Nigerian National Anthem

Watch a special tribute by Emmanuel Imevbore Ohiomokhare on the life and times of Odiase

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NET SPECIAL REPORT: Fatai Rolling Dollar goes home

Highlife veteran Fatai Olayiwola Olagunju, popularly known as Fatai Rolling Dollar, who passed on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at the age of 85 will be remembered for a long time...

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How Benedict Odiase, Nigerian National Anthem composer died

A few hours after popular highlife musician Fatai Rolling Dollar passed away on June 12, 2013, another notable Nigerian Pa Benedict Odiase, the man who composed Nigeria’s National Anthem passed away.

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Olumide Iyanda’s tribute to Fatai Rolling Dollar

I have lost a friend and father figure in Fatai Rolling Dollar. Fatai Rolling Dollar cut short a trip outside Nigeria to play at my wedding on Thursday June 26,2013. He didn’t collect a dime from me. Fatai Rolling Dollar wasn’t popular with the modern crowd back in 2003 as he is now. But he killed my wedding reception...

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EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Fatai Rolling Dollar buried in Ikorodu, Lagos

Highlife music maestro, Fatai Rolling Dollar was finally buried today, Thursday, June 13, 2013...

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VIDEO: Behind the music with Highlife legend Fatai Rolling Dollar

Fatai Rolling Dollar tells it al in this l6-minute video about his early years, fame and future ambition.

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‘Won Kere Si Number Wa’ – Remembering Fatai Rolling Dollar four years after his death

Dagrin, Goldie, Amaka Igwe, Kefee, Zara Gretti, others to be honoured at Nigerian Entertainment Conference

#HEADIES2014: Kefee honoured along with other late music stars

‘Fatai Rolling Dollar caned his grown up children’, first son says

VIDEO: Benedict Odiase – Watch a tribute to the man who composed the Nigerian National Anthem

NET SPECIAL REPORT: Fatai Rolling Dollar goes home

How Benedict Odiase, Nigerian National Anthem composer died

Olumide Iyanda’s tribute to Fatai Rolling Dollar

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Fatai Rolling Dollar buried in Ikorodu, Lagos

VIDEO: Behind the music with Highlife legend Fatai Rolling Dollar

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