Ace Broadcaster and Actor, Sadiq Daba Is Dead.
Daba died on Wednesday, March 3 at the age of 90.
NTA2 Lagos Network Centre in a tweet said he died Wednesday evening around 8:30pm after battling for leukaemia and cancer for years.
In 2017, Daba was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia and later prostate cancer for which he underwent several treatments.
Back in 2019, billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, paid for the hospital bills of the actor.
Originally from Kano state, Daba grew up in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He moved back to Nigeria at the age of 15. In Sierra Leone, he attended primary school and St. Edward’s Secondary school.
He returned to Nigeria and got higher degrees in many institutions including Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna state.
Growing up, he wanted to be a broadcaster. He finally got a chance in 1968, when he met a certain Alifa Baba Hammed. The latter found him impressive and arranged for an audition at the Radio Television, Kaduna.
Then, Daba worked as a news anchor, reporter and editor at RKTV, NTPC Lagos and NTA Lagos.
His acting career came to prominence in the late 1970s, starring in Cockcrow at Dawn.
Daba also featured in a lot of other films and soap operas like ‘Behind the Clouds’, ‘A Place Like Home’, ‘Soweto’, and ‘Moment of Truth’.
In 2015, he won Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as “Inspector Waziri” in Kunle Afolayan’s October 1. He was last seen acting in Kunle Afolayan’s 2020 movie ‘Citation’ as Professor Yahaya.
Married to Bolaji Daba, the late Broadcaster was a father to two children and grandchildren.
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