The death has been announced of a veteran Nollywood actor, Saint Obi.
The actor, who starred in the movie industry in the 1990s and 2000s, died early in the week in Plateau State at the age of 57 after a protracted illness. His body was taken to the morgue at Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH).
Saint Obi reportedly visited hospitals for treatment for several months before he passed on. Disagreement within the family caused the delay in announcing the actor’s death.
The Actors’ Guild of Nigeria (AGN) is said to be on a fact-finding mission on his death following news that he died in his sister’s home.
Saint Obi came onto the acting scene in 1996 after doing a commercial for Peugeot on NTA and went on to feature in more than 100 movies including Sakobi, Festival of Fire, State of Emergency and others.
He was born Obinna Nwafor in 1965 in the Port Harcourt city of Rivers State. His parents later moved to Jos where he had his early education.
Saint Obi graduated from the University of Jos after studying theatre arts. The movie star was known by several nicknames like James Bond of Nollywood, Saint of the Moviedom, among others.
Nollywood Suffers Another Loss:
Less than 24 hours after the news filtered out about the death of a popular Nollywood actor, Saint Obi, another popular actor of Yoruba movies, Murphy Afolabi, has died on Sunday.
The actor was said to have fallen in the bathroom and subsequently slipped into coma before he was declared dead.
A colleague of the deceased in the Yoruba subsector of the Nollywood, Tunde Ola-Yusuf, confirmed the sad news.