"E ka ro, onikoko yin ti de o" The popular Iya onikoko & MoinMoin (pap seller) in my village has closed shop because of sudden and continuous hikes in prices of maize and beans. The hard-working, neat, and honest woman took a "gbomule lanta" loan from a finance house to struggle to continue her business of survival, but customers couldn't afford her new price of MoinMoin and Koko, so she ended her trade of over a decade, with "gbomule lanta" debt hanging on her neck. Sad story.
Coach Steve Onishola, the Technical Director of Kwara Falcons Basketball Club of Ilorin, is dead.
Onishola died barely 24 hours after his younger sister, Folake Aremu, a Nollywood actress, popularly known as Orisabunmi, passed on.
The State Chairman of the association, Dr. Joseph Adeyemo, confirmed the death of Onishola in Ilorin on Thursday.
The late basketball coach was said to have passed on at 71 following a brief illness.
The deceased was the Manager of Falcons on different occasions before he was appointed the club’s technical director. He was part of the Falcons’ team that secured promotion for the club to the elite division in 2013.
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Veteran actress, Folake Aremu, more popularly known as Orisabunmi is dead. She died early this morning in her house in Akure, Ondo State. The cause of death is unknown.
Her death is coming a few months after her husband, veteran actor, Chief Jimoh Aliu, otherwise known as Aworo, died.
Orisabunmi who plied her trade in the Yoruba movie industry was well known from the 80s when she began acting, for her roles as a priestess, pacifist or the good witch.
Born in 1960, in Ilu Ola, Kwara state, Orisabunmi never attended university.
The veteran actress was discovered by her ex-husband in the 80s while working as a teacher in Kwara state and expressed his interest in her.
Veteran Yoruba actress, Orisabunmi, is dead
Orisabunmi achieved fame in the 80s when she starred in the TV series Arelu.
She was 60.
The Kwara born thespian’s death comes only months after the death of her ex-husband Jimoh Aliu, better known as Aworo, who died on September 17, 2020.
They were married for 36 years.
The President of the Theatre Arts And Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria (TAMPAN) Bolaji Amusan, aka Mr Latin, confirmed she died on Tuesday night. Another senior TAMPAN member, Tunde Ola-Yusuff, also broke the news of her death in a
Orisabunmi was famous for playing the role of a priestess with magical powers expressed in incantations and some other mysterious manifestations and these have endeared her to many viewers for many years.