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By Nazo Okafor

Long before she became a global icon, Dolly Parton harbored a dream that had nothing to do with Grammy awards or Hollywood stardom. She wanted to build a "Smoky Mountain fairy land"—a place that would celebrate the rugged beauty of the Appalachian hills she called home and honor the proud, hardworking people who raised her. That dream, first shared with Barbara Walters in a 1982 television interview, would eventually become Dollywood, one of the most beloved theme parks in America and the cornerstone of a billion-dollar tourism empire.

By Sobechukwu Okafor

To millions of people, her fans around the world, Tennessee song icon, Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean, was the rhinestone-studded Queen of Country Music. But to the children who received a book in the mail every month, she was simply "The Book Queen". And to the families who lost everything in devastating wildfires and floods, she was the neighbor who never forgot where she came from.

By Nazo Okafor

Before the wigs, the heels, and the worldwide fame, Dolly Parton was just a girl from the hills of East Tennessee. Her story begins not on a stage, but in a one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, where she was born on January 19, 1946. She was the fourth of 12 children born to a sharecropper father and a mother who filled their humble home with songs and stories. They were "dirt poor" by any measure . Her father famously paid the doctor who delivered her with a bag of oatmeal, a testament to the family's financial struggles . Yet, the cabin was rich in music and love, providing the fertile ground from which her extraordinary talent would grow.

  • Describes His Death As a Great Loss To Nigerian Journalism

By Chinwendu Agoha (Media & Governance Correspondent)

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) said it has received with profound shock and sadness the death of a distinguished journalist, publisher of The Eagle Online and former President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), Mr. Dotun Oladipo.

By Sobechukwu Okafor

The world said goodbye to a true icon on August 25, 2026, when Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean passed away at the age of 80. The beloved singer, songwriter, and philanthropist died peacefully at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, surrounded by loved ones, after "bravely facing a brief battle with cancer". Her death marked the end of a remarkable journey that took a girl from a one-room cabin in the Smoky Mountains to the pinnacle of global entertainment.

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