The Nigerian entertainment industry has lost a lot of its members in the last one year.
At least, 16 deaths have been recorded since May 2016. encomium.ng’s checks revealed that most of our entertainers died either from heart attack or heart related ailments.
The checks further showed that five of them passed on as a result of this aliment – Olumide Bakare, Genevieve Nene, Fatai Onibuade-A, Oluwatoyin Majekodunmi (Iya Kike) and Moji Olaiya died as a result of heart attack or cardiac arrest.
Most of them never made it to the hospital after the attack as they passed on either on their way to the hospital or on arrival at the hospital.
Harvesting of death
Two other common ailments that have taken the lives of some of our
celebrities in the last one year are kidney and liver related diseases.
Fred Ephoria Ekata was said to have died of kidney related disease, Adeshina Adesanya also died of kidney related disease and elder Maya Maetins died of liver ailment.
Information pierced together by encomium.ng further revealed that “brief illnesses’ has also been a threat to the lives of our celebrities. Mulikat Adegbola, Abdul Lateef Titilope and Olumide Awise (Baba Ogbon) were all said have died as a result of brief illness.
While Henrietta Kosoko died of diabetes.