After OJB's death, see what is happening to another prominent Nigerian Entertainer

– TV personality Emma Ugolee says he has been receiving calls since OJB Jezreel died on Tuesday, June 14

– People were calling to check on him since he is suffering from same ailment as OJB

– Ugolee shares his will power

Emma Ugolee undergoing dialysis last Christmas day
TV personality, Emmanuel Ugolee popularly called Emma Ugolee has been battling with chronic kidney ailments for four years now.

The producer and anchor of TV show on HipTv, The Gist, which strictly discusses issues around the entertainment industry in general with key players including musicians, actors, writers, sportsmen amongst others, as panelists has been receiving numerous calls from friends and family members after the death of OJB Jezreel on Tuesday, June 14.

Ugolee wrote on the several calls and his ailment on Tuesday, June 15:

“Too many phone calls yesterday with everyone just checking to see how I was doing.

It all made sense when news filtered in that OJB had just died from a disease I’ve battled with for over 4years now.

The general concern being the psychological impact of being reminded of the likelihood of one’s demise thanks to the unpredictable & deadly nature of living without a funtional kidney.

For closer friends, aware that I had lost many associates to this struggle. 3 being in the last 3months and that each one lived with issues less complicated than mine, calling me was like checking up on a pal on death row. Lol

Now it was time to return the calls and assure every single one that the unfortunate event is no reason to lose faith. It’s no proof that I must toe a similar line. That I am not holier than any whose journeys have ended and thus wise enough to understand that logic does not explain the sustaining power of grace.

Emma, Ali Baba and others on kidney care awareness campaign
The fact that a pattern surrounds you, does not mean your future has been molded by it.

Your faith, your vision, aspiration & motivation must tower above your environment all the time. That explains why people make it out of the ghetto.

Beating the odds posed by environment has always been so for all of the great men you know.

Events around your predecessors must not define your journey.

A good example is the story of the Brazilian footballer Neymar.

From a land where the world’s greatest footballers hail from.


Emma Ugolee, Toolz and Ebuka Obi-Uchendu during one of his campaigns
Logic would say it can’t get better than Pele, Zicco, Bebeto and Ronaldo for him. They had pretty much sealed the bar where they set it. Dooming any follow up act as staying under their shadows.

Neymar didn’t allow the fame of his predecessor’s eclipse his believe to do better and break new records.

And just that, he has done. Tiped to join R.Madrid @ 14, he scored his 100th professional goal on his 20th birthday and is still the only Brazilian athlete in history to make the cover of Time magazine.

What around you shakes your faith in you? What around you weakens your resolve to try breaking new grounds? What tempts you to want to conform to playing out a predictable script?….. Nothing!!!! Should be the only answer you know.

So if you want to think achieving Hollywood as a Nollywood player, please think it. If you think family trends would end with you, please believe it.

Believe in the uniqueness of your path. Do not be spinning around the world. With faith, take a stand and watch the world adjust – Emma Ugolee

(Originally inspired by late Muna Ibekwe)  ”

Since Ugolee has been up and doing, he has being leading several campaigns on kidney care. The TV personality was close to late singer Nomoreloss in his lifetime.