- The revered Nollywood veteran, Olofa Ina, has found his eternal repose, with his final rites conducted in accordance with Muslim traditions.
- The actor peacefully departed from this world on Thursday, January 5, within the confines of his home, following an extended period of hospitalization.
- Online footage of his burial ceremony has emerged, depicting a touching farewell as a substantial number of his colleagues gathered to bid him a final adieu.
Grieving friends, sympathizers, and fellow colleagues flocked to the home of the late Yoruba actor, Chief Adedeji Akinremi, aka Olofa Ina, in Fiwasaiye area of Ede town, Osun State, to pay their final respects.
Olofaina died at his private residence in Ede on Thursday afternoon at about 2pm after suffering from unknown ailment, which led to his hospitalisation at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital in Ile-Ife, Osun State.
According to the family, the departed actor has been laid to rest in his native Ede town at 4 pm today.
Videos making the rounds captured moments of Islamic clerics conducting his burial in accordance with Muslim rites mere hours after his passing.
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Colleagues were seen among the crowd, sharing heartfelt tributes about the late icon.
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Olofa Ina passed away on Thursday. He was 73 years old.
In an interview with BBC Yoruba, Modinatu Aderemi, one of the wives of Olofa Ina, said the actor had been battling an illness for a while and had received care at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital in Ile-Ife..
She said he spent three weeks in the hospital but died within 30 minutes of returning home
“We had been taken care of him, and he was at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital in Ile-Ife,” she said.
“We were told to bring him home from the hospital on Thursday evening. It was not more than 30 minutes after we got home that he died.”
Modinatu, however, did not specify the exact cause of his death.
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