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Ace broadcaster and Yoruba actor, Adebayo Faleti dies at 86

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Nigerian veteran broadcaster, poet, journalist, writer and actor, Pa Adebayo Faleti, is dead.

Faleti died on Sunday at the University College Hospital, Ibadan at about 6 am.

He died at the age of 86.

The late broadcaster published a dictionary containing the official usage of Yoruba names.

He was a Yoruba translator, TV exponent and a pioneer staff of the first television station in Africa, Western Nigeria Television, WNTV, Ibadan.

He was also responsible for translating Nigeria’s National Anthem from English to Yoruba.

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