Just In: Prominent Yoruba Actor Jimoh Aliu ‘Aworo’ Dies At 86

By Stephen Godonu

Veteran theatre practitioner, Chief Jimoh Aliu (popularly known as Aworo), is dead.

Aliu died on Thursday during a brief illness at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, aged 86.

A source and close associate of the late theatre practitioner said, “The corpse of the deceased would be moved to his residence at Adebayo area in Ado-Ekiti before being taken to his hometown, Okemesi Ekiti in Ekiti West Local Government Area of the state, where he would be buried tomorrow.”

Aliu, who was working on a five-movies project expected to feature top Nollywood actors, died while producing the first one titled, ‘Olowo Ite’.