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Last Friday evening, news media came to a near standstill as the sad news of the death of Nigerian Gospel Artist Osinachi Nwachukwu, who sang the 2017 gospel hit song Ekwueme, began to circulate.

At first, there were rumours about the cause of her death, with Tweets and Facebook posts alleging that she had been admitted to hospital with throat cancer, and that she finally succumbed to the disease.

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