Sadiq Daba played the role of Inspector Waziri in the film ‘October 1’
Veteran Nollywood actor and TV broadcaster, Sadiq Daba has died on Wednesday, March 3.
According to NTA2 Lagos Network Centre, he died this evening around 8:30pm after battling for leukaemia and cancer for years.
In 2017, the veteran was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia and later prostate cancer for which he underwent several treatments.
Daba has worked as a broadcaster for Nigerian Television Authority. His acting career came to prominence in the late 1970s, starring in Cockcrow at Dawn.
In 2015, he won Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actorfor his role as “Inspector Waziri” in October 1.
According to the Punch newspaper, his close friend, Joe Odumakin, said the actor had been ill for a while before his demise.
She said, “We have lost Sadiq. It is so painful because I spoke to him a few days ago when his wife became a permanent secretary. I called his number some hours ago but his son picked it. I told him to give the phone to his father but he told me that his father is gone. I had to ask; gone to where?
“His wife just called me now and we spoke. She said that she was at the morgue. I asked what happened and she told me that about a week ago, he had been ill but he had been home and that he went to the hospital late afternoon today.
“She explained that he had not been eating much and that as soon as they got to the hospital, they started conducting different tests on him including COVID-19. They put him on oxygen but he died around 8:30 pm.”
