By our Reporter
Popular Nollywood actor, Femi Ogunrombi, is dead.
Shaibu Husseini, a theatre practitioner disclosed in a tweet on Saturday.
“I have just been informed that the ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with National Troupe, and one-time stand-in for the ‘Papa Ajasco’ character on the popular Wale Adenuga Production comic series ‘Papa Ajasco’ Femi Ogunrombi is dead!”, his tweet read.
Ogunrombi was famous for his role in Wale Adenuga’s Comedy series Papa Ajasco, a character he took when Abiodun Ayoyinka pulled out of the show.
He played the role for eight years while the deceased took on the part for two years.
He was a recipient of many local and international awards, most notably in 1995, when he was awarded a gold plaque and a Diploma Certificate in Creative Composition in North Korea for performing a song in that language.
It was also learnt that Ogunrombi started as a trained and registered nurse.
He studied Medical Nursing in 1975 and practised at the General Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, where he was attached to the Accident and Emergency unit. This enabled him to switch to industrial medical practices; he worked with Atlantic Textiles Mills as a medical officer.