Nollywood records three deaths in three months – The Nation Nigeria

By Gbenga Bada

It’s barely three months into the brand new 12 months and Nigeria’s film trade has recorded the dying of three main gamers. The three deaths had been recorded between January 2020 and March 2020. The deaths shocked followers and trade gamers as they had been on account of undisclosed ailment however suspected to be organ failures.

Listed below are the three Nollywood stars which have handed away thus far.

1. Toyosi Arigbabuwo

Month: January 2020

Age: 61

Yoruba actor, Toyosi Arigbabuwo, was the primary dying recorded within the Nigerian movie trade in 2020. Arigbabuwo died on Monday, January 13 inj his house in Ibadan, Oyo state after battling with an undisclosed ailment. In line with studies, Arigbabuwo had been sick for over six months earlier than his dying.

He grew to become standard within the Yoruba-speaking movies and featured in lots of productions together with ‘Ogbori Elemosho’ and ‘Bashorun Gaa.’

2. Frank Dallas

Month: February 2020

Age: 51

February 2020 additionally recorded one other dying in Nollywood. This time, it was the dying of a well-liked determine within the trade. Frank Dallas, a Nollywood actor and manufacturing supervisor died on Wednesday, February 19.

Dallas’ dying got here as a impolite shock to a number of practitioners as he was reported to have died in a resort in Abia state, the place he had gone for a seminar.  Dallas is not one of the manufacturing crew behind Africa Films Academy Awards, AMAA and one of many recurring personalities within the Actors Guild of Nigeria.

3. Pa Kasumu

Month: March 2020

Age: 66

Veteran Nollywood actor, Olukayode Odumosu, aka Pa Kasumu, died on March 1.  The actor, who had been battling with undisclosed ailment gave up the ghost on the primary day of the third month making him the third Nollywood star to move away in 2020.

Kasumu handed away in Abeokuta, the place he was nursed by his member of the family after his well being started failing.

The Nollywood actor grew to become a significant star that includes in Yoruba-speaking motion pictures earlier than extending his experience to Tv sequence a few of which embrace ‘Tremendous Story’ and ‘Home A-part.’ Kasumu first gained recognition when he performed the fatherly position in Tade Ogidan’s ‘Owo Blow.’