Wednesday, 5 January 2022

Nollywood Weeps Again As Popular Actress, Iyabo Oko Dies

Famous Yoruba actress, Kudirat Odukanwi popularly known as Iyabo Oko, is dead.

On Wednesday, January 5, the veteran actress who had been bedridden for nearly five years passed away.

Gist Journal would recall that late Odukanwi, had in 2021 dispelled rumours of her death after photos and videos of her looking frail made the rounds on the Internet recently.

Olamide, the actress's 61-year-old daughter, disclosed that her mother was diagnosed with ischemic stroke roughly five years ago but opted to keep her health difficulties private.

Details of how she died is not yet made public.

Daramola Salako took to her Instagram page to express her pains, adding that God knows the reason Iyabo Oko had to die now.

 “😭😭😭

 and finally we lost her…

 ðŸ˜­ðŸ˜­ðŸ˜­ rip Iyabo Oko, we did our best but God knows best,” she wrote.