Popular Kaduna based media personality, Rachel Bakam, fondly called ‘Piper’ has died from Anaemia.
She was aged 38.
Ms. Bakam was reported by her brother, Armstrong Bakam to have died at about 12pm today (Tuesday).
She died with her mother by her side.
‘Piper’ who hailed from Southern Kaduna, Kaduna State, was a philanthropist, providing relief items to IDPs in Kadun, through the Big Church Foundation.
The late Rachel died leaving a son.
Bakam was a prolific Nigerian actress, writer, TV presenter and producer, and an anti-human trafficking ambassador.
She was the CEO and Managing Director of Rayzeds Media Ltd, Founder & President of the Nigerian Water Ski And Wakeboard Federation (NWWF) and media consultant for the Performing Musician Employers Association (PMAN) & African Fashion Reception Paris.
Bakam was a peace and tourist ambassador. She was 2015 alumna of United States International Visitors Leadership Programme. She hosted Trends & Rachel, a popular television show that aired on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), African Independent Television(AIT), DSTV, and Startimes.
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She also produced and presented Rachel the PIPER and hausa version of RACHEL MAI KAKAAKI; an entertaining yet highly humanitarian television programme.
Bakam was born and brought up in Kaduna State by Mr. and Mrs. Adams and Rose Bakam where she had her primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
She studied English and theatre arts at Ahmadu Bello University and digital filmmaking at New York Film Academy.
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She lost her father at the age of 12. At the age of 16 she started working, first as a salesgirl in a supermarket, later in a recording studio and played a lead role in a Hausa drama series known as Rayuwa.
She was president of Literary and Debating Club then Head Girl in Kaduna Capital School, best graduating female student and best graduating student of faculty of arts in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.
She did her National Youth Service stint at the Nigerian Television Authority International, where she produced and presented different TV programmes like Trends, Saturday Morning, and Style Code.
She proceeded to study digital film making at New York Film Academy and thereafter established Rayzed Media Ltd.
Bakam brought water skiing and wakeboarding to Nigeria. In 2016, she got an endorsement deal with Numatville Megacity.
She joined non-government organizations, such as Devatop Centre for Africa Development in campaigning against sex trafficking and other forms of modern slavery in Nigeria.
She was a Media Consultant for the African Fashion Reception Paris.
After the Southern Kaduna crisis, where more than 800 people, mostly Christians were killed, Rachel Bakam and John Fashanu joined Big Church Foundation to support the victims with relief materials.
Muzha Kucha