Veteran Nollywood actor, Professor Adekola Akangbe Gabriel Oyewo, is dead.
Aged 80, Professor Oyewo, popularly known as Professor Kola Oyewo died on Friday according yo an announcement by his son, Adetoyese Oyewo, through a message shared on Facebook, where he paid tribute to the late actor’s life and achievements.
He started his career with the Oyin Adejobi Theatre Group.and rose into academics as a lecturer of Theatre Arts at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.
The late Oyewo combined his prominence in academia with practical acting, featuring in several films which included “Orogun Adedigba,” “The God’s Are Not to Blame, “Sango,” among many others.
He onced revealed during an interview that a battle with prostrate problems slowed his career.
President Bola Tinubu had congratulated the deceased actor when he joined the octogenarian club on March 27, 2026.
President Tinubu described him as a national treasure and a worthy ambassador of Yoruba theatre and Nigerian storytelling.
The late Oyewo had five boys; earned a bachelor’s degree at OAU and completed a master’s degree and PhD at the University of Ibadan (UI), Oyo State.
He was the Balogun of Oba-Ile in the Olorunda Local Government Area of Osun State.
He also taught at the Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State and Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin, Ondo State.
Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.
Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.
He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.
Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).
He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.
He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.
Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.
