{"id":38325,"date":"2021-03-04T18:10:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=38325"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T17:32:54","slug":"veteran-actor-sadiq-daba-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/culture-and-art\/veteran-actor-sadiq-daba-is-dead","title":{"rendered":"Veteran actor, Sadiq Daba is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Veteran broadcaster and Nollywood actor, Sadiq Daba, is reportedly dead.<\/p>\n<p>The actor died on Wednesday evening after a prolonged battle with leukemia and prostate cancer, NTA reports.<\/p>\n<p>His acting career came to prominence in the late 1970s, starring in Cockcrow at Dawn.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased had announced his diagnosis of leukemia and prostate cancer in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Recall the actor in 2017 was flown out of Nigeria for treatment of prostrate cancer and Leukemia at a UK hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Some Nigerians including Dino Melaye supported the late actor financially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Veteran broadcaster and Nollywood actor, Sadiq Daba, is reportedly dead. The actor died on Wednesday evening after a prolonged battle with leukemia and prostate cancer, NTA reports. His acting career came to prominence in the late 1970s, starring in Cockcrow at Dawn. The deceased had announced his diagnosis of leukemia and prostate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17,28,26],"tags":[1570,2140,254,3258],"class_list":["post-38325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-sadiq-daba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Veteran actor, Sadiq Daba is dead - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Veteran broadcaster and Nollywood actor, Sadiq Daba, is reportedly dead. 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