Nigeria has lost another iconic actress as top ‘supernatural’ actress, Folake Jimoh Aliu, aka Orisabunmi, is dead.
This is coming less than two weeks after ace producer and director, Chico Ejiro, passed on.
President of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria, TAMPAN, Bolaji Amusan, popularly known as Baba Latin, confirmed this to phenomenal.com.ng on this morning.
Latin described the development as a great loss to the entire Nigerian film industry, saying she was a very talented and committed actress.
The actress was famous for playing supernatural roles as an interventionist mostly when people are in problems.
Orisabunmi’s death is also coming months after her legendary actor and producer husband, Jim Aliu, also bid the world BYE.
Mourning her passage in a Faceboook post, film journalist and artist, Shaibu Hussein, noted:
He mourned in a Facebook post on Wednesday morning:
Another sad day for the movie industry:
Chief Folake Jimoh Aliu aka Orisabunmi is DEAD!
The fiery actress reportedly passed on last night.
If you are a fan of some of the critically acclaimed Yoruba stage and screen productions of the late 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s you wont miss Orisabunmi.
