Yoruba film actor, Olalere Osunpaimo passes on
Chief Olalere Osunpaimo, aka “Eda Onile Ola” one of Yoruba’s foremost film actors and cultural icons is dead.
The veteran Yoruba actor simply known as Lere Paimo and stage name as Eda Onile Ola, passed away at 86 years in his Ogbomosho town in Oyo state.
Details of his death have yet to be made public but the foremost veteran actor has been bedridden for over three months on accounts of old age related ailments.
Information said that he finally succumbed to death late night of November 28.
Olalere Osunpaimo was during his life time, a National Awards holder of Member of the Federal Republic MFR conferred on during by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo
