Veteran Yoruba actor, Lere Paimo MFR, well known as Eda Onile Ola, has reportedly passed on aged 86.
The 86 year old Veteran Lere Paimo has been bedridden for over three months now and has been at the mercy of few of his colleagues who have been taking care of him but later succumb to the cold hand of death.
The Ogbomosho, Oyo State-born actor is a National Awards holder. He has prominently featured in many Yoruba films. He is one of the biggest figures in the industry and well experienced too. No wonder he has not been featuring in movies of late! Ma God grant him quick recovery oooo.
Chief Lere Paimo, MFR was born on November 19, 1939, in Ile Ikoyi Odan, Osupa, Ogbomosho, a city in Oyo State southwestern Nigeria. His father was a tobacco and yam farmer, the leader of the local farmers’ organization. His mother was a trader.
Chief Lere Paimo was sent to primary school in Ogbomoso, but then left for the Gold Coast (current day Ghana) where he continued his education up to teacher training college where he obtained Teacher’s Grade two certificate. He eventually returned back to Nigeria and decided to stay in Osogbo where he worked as a class-room teacher in a Baptist Missionary School.
In 2005, in recognition of his immense contributions to the Nigerian film industry, he was bestowed a National award of Member of the Federal Republic alongside Zeb Ejiro by Olusegun Obasanjo the former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
In April 2014, he won a ₦1,000,000 cash prize in a Nigerian game show, Who Wants to be a MIllionaire.
In May 2013, it was reported that he had a partial stroke, an attack he survived, but now he has passed on. RIP Legend Lere Paimo a.k.a Eda Onile Ola.
