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The creative sector continues to lose some of its best to the cold clutches of death.
IT’S not been a good week in art house with the Grim Reaper continuing from where it left off in December. A former president of the Association of Nigerian Authors and Minister of State for Education, Professor Jerry Agada and prolific movie director, Chico Ejiro, were some of the high-profile departures from the creative sector in the last month of 2020.
But despite prayers for a halt to the deaths, two other eminent art personalities passed days apart during the week. Veteran journalist and former Vice President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), Otunba Eddie Aderinokun passed on Sunday, January 3 at 80.
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Popular Yoruba actress, Folake Aremu, also known as Orisabunmi, has passed on.
Orisabunmi, who usually played the role of a good witch in most of her films, was said to have died at her residence in Ibadan on Tuesday night.
The actress who died at 60 was very popular in the 80s, 90s to early 2000
A senior member of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria, Tunde Ola-Yusuff, announced the death in a Facebook post on Wednesday morning.
Ola Yusuf’s post read, “Adieu: She left without a goodbye. The sudden death of Mrs Fokake Aremu (Orisabunmi) has been announced.
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The veteran thespian was 60 years old.
The Theatre Arts And Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN) confirmed the death.
A member, Tunde Ola-Yusuff, expressed grief in a Facebook post Wednesday morning.
“She left without a goodbye. The sudden death of Mrs Folake Aremu (Orisabunmi) has been announced.
“Really a shock on everyone. Iya Oosa, may God rest your soul among the righteous,” he wrote.
Folake was born on October 10, 1960, in Ilu Ola, Kwara State.
She attended Eruku Commercial College, worked as a teacher, and later as a secretary at Sunny Radio in Ilorin, before going into the theatre industry.