Veteran Nollywood actress, Oluwasolamipe Onayiga, popularly known as Ireti, is dead.
It was gathered that the renowned actress, who played the role of Ireti with Kunle Bamtefa in the popular soap ‘Fuji House of Commotion’, died on Monday after a brief illness.
The founder of the Best Nollywood Awards, Seun Oloketuyi, disclosed the demise of the veteran actress via his social media accounts on Monday.
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“I have just been informed that the accomplished stage and screen actress and Fellow of Theatre Arts, Auntie Sola Awojobi Onayiga has passed on.
“Auntie Sola, who is best known for living delightfully the role of Ireti (a.k.a cooking practicals) in the defunct television sitcom ‘CHECKMATE’ reportedly passed on this morning,” Oloketuyi stated.
Fuji House of Commotion, a Nigerian sitcom, produced and directed by late Amaka Igwe, was a spin-off of nineties soap opera ‘Checkmate’, one of the few Nigerian television programmes to have obtained that status.
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