Veteran actor & broadcaster Adebayo Faleti is dead

Renowned Yoruba veteran actor, broadcaster, poet and writer, Chief Adebayo Faleti has died, aged 86.

Adebayo, an old student of Ibadan Boys High School died Sunday morning at University College Hospital, Ibadan at about 6. am according to sources.

Chief Adebayo who happened to be one of the pioneer staff of the first television station in Africa, Western Nigeria Television (WNTV) died at the age of 86.

A family source who confirmed his death informed journalists that his body has been taken to anatomy section at the UCH.

Faleti also starred in Tunde Kelani‘s Thunderbold and Saworoide.