{"id":78672,"date":"2025-11-13T15:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78672"},"modified":"2025-11-13T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:39:33","slug":"veteran-actor-baba-gebu-dies-after-brief-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/13\/veteran-actor-baba-gebu-dies-after-brief-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Actor Baba Gebu Dies After Brief Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Veteran Nollywood actor, Oyewole Olowomojuore, popularly known as Baba Gebu, has died after a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p>The news was announced by actor and producer Kunle Afod on his verified Instagram page on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Afod described Baba Gebu as a \u201cgreat legend\u201d who passed away on Tuesday after a short illness.<\/p>\n<p>Baba Gebu had a long and distinguished career in the Yoruba film industry, featuring in numerous productions and mentoring younger actors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Veteran Nollywood actor, Oyewole Olowomojuore, popularly known as Baba Gebu, has died after a brief illness. The news was announced by actor and producer Kunle Afod on his verified Instagram page on Wednesday. Afod described Baba Gebu as a \u201cgreat legend\u201d who passed away on Tuesday after a short illness. Baba Gebu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78674,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78672\/revisions\/78674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}