23/07/2017

AJANAKU WO!!! ADEBAYO FALETI IS DEAD. May ur soul rest in peace baba.



Image may contain: 1 personErin WO! I can confirm to you now that my father of inestimable value, mentor and friend has passed on. He died in his house around 8.30am this morning at the age of 95. He will have been 86 on Dec 26, 2017. May he find peace with his creator.
Ace broadcaster, Adebayo Faleti is dead. Aged 86.
An old students of Ibadan Boys High School passed on this morning at the famous University College Hospital, Ibadan at about 6a.m.
Adebayo Faleti, poet, journalist, writer and actor. He is also known as a Yoruba translator, a broadcaster, TV exponent and a pioneer of the first television station in Africa, Western Nigeria Television (WNTV).[1]
He was responsible for translating Nigeria's National Anthem from English to Yoruba. He also translated speeches being made by military president of Nigeria Ibrahim Babangida and Chief Ernest Shonekan, Head of National Interim Government of Nigeria, from English to Yoruba.
Faleti has published a dictionary containing the formal or official use of Yoruba names. He has received many awards, both locally and internationally, including the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) the Festival of Arts award with Eda Ko L’aropin and the Afro-Hollywood Award for Outstanding Performance in Arts
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Chief Adebayo faleti is dead. 
Adebayo Faleti born on 26 December 1930 is a Nigerian poet, journalist, writer and actor. He is also known as a Yoruba translator, a broadcaster, TV exponent and a pioneer of the first television station in Africa, Western Nigeria Television (WNTV).[1] He was responsible for translating Nigeria's National Anthem from English to Yoruba. He also translated speeches being made by military president of Nigeria Ibrahim Babangida and Chief Ernest Shonekan, Head of National Interim Government of Nigeria, from English to Yoruba. Faleti has published a dictionary containing the formal or official use of Yoruba names.[1] He has received many awards, both locally and internationally, including the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON)[2] the Festival of Arts award with Eda Ko L’aropin (1995) and the Afro-Hollywood Award for Outstanding Performance in Arts (2002)Image may contain: 2 people, text

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