Veteran actor ‘Papa Ajasco’ is dead
By Ahmad Deedat Zakari
Veteran Nollywood actor, Femi Ogunrombi, famously known as Papa Ajasco, has passed away.
The news of his demise was announced by a theatre practitioner, Husseini Shaibu, via his Twitter handle on Sunday.
He tweeted, “I have just been reliably informed that the ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with #NATIONALTROUPE and one time stand in for the ‘Papa Ajasco’ character on the popular #waleadenugaprod comic series ‘Papa Ajasco’ Mr. Femi Ogunrombi is dead.”
Femi Ogunrombi became famous after starring in Papa Ajasco, a popular Nigerian television comedy created by Wale Adenuga in 1996.