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Veteran actor, Sadiq Daba, buried as Nigerians pay tributes

Veteran actor, Sadiq Daba, buried as Nigerians pay tributes On …Sadiq was greatest warrior we’ve ever known Afolayan By Benjamin Njoku As the late veteran actor and broadcaster, Sadiq Daba, was buried at a cemetery in Agege, Lagos State, yesterday, many Nigerians continue to pay tributes to him. Daba died Wednesday evening after a prolonged battle with leukaemia and prostate cancer. The late actor became popular in the 1980s, after the role he played as Bitrus in a soap opera, Cockcrow at Dawn. Prominent Nigerians and practitioners that paid tributes to the actor included former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.

Sadiq Daba: Exit of the golden voice

Advertisement For Sadiq Daba, a native of Kano, born in Kumasi, Ghana and raised in Freetown, Sierra-Leone, stardom was more than a dream come true. In the early days, it was radio that enchanted him. And without a single TV station in Sierra-Leone then, what else but being on radio would he have thought of? “I used to listen to William Roberts on Radio Sierra-Leone,” he recalls, smiling broadly. “He was my role model. Being on-air, for me, became an obsession.” That was in the early 1960s, a time he used to go around with the pop star, Giraldo Pino, who practices just behind their house to dance halls. But it was not till he met Khalifa Baba Ahmed on his return to Nigeria around 1967 that he was able to actualize his childhood dream. And it was by happenstance!

Atiku, Dele Momodu React to Death of Popular Nollywood Actor, Sadiq Daba

Atiku, Dele Momodu React to Death of Popular Nollywood Actor, Sadiq Daba
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