Baba Suwe's Daughter Has Shared His Final Words
Lagos · Sunday 23 August 2026
A daughter of Babatunde Omidina, the comedian known to every Yoruba film audience as Baba Suwe, has shared what her father said before his death.
These pieces usually pass as a moment of remembrance. This one lands differently because of what is happening elsewhere in Nollywood this week.
The pattern the industry keeps repeating
Baba Suwe's final years were public and difficult: a long illness, mounting medical costs, appeals for help, and a national conversation about how one of the most recognised comic performers in the country had ended up in that position.
This week, Taiwo Hassan is being treated for stage four cancer. His children made a public appeal. A senator intervened to get him admitted. More than 500 people offered spiritual treatment, and his daughter has now said that some people are trying to profit from the illness.
The same story, with a different name in it, roughly every eighteen months.
What has actually changed since
Not much that a sick actor could use. Guild health schemes have been discussed repeatedly and none has reached the scale where a senior performer with a serious diagnosis is covered as a matter of course.
What has changed is the speed of the appeal. Social media gets a family to a national audience in hours rather than weeks, which raises money faster and also exposes them faster, as the Hassan family is currently finding out.
Why the final words are being shared now
Grief does not run to a schedule, and a daughter choosing to speak years later needs no justification. But these accounts surface most often when something in the present has made the past feel unresolved.
An industry watching another beloved actor go through the same sequence is exactly that kind of moment.
Reporting: Legit.ng, Kemi Filani News and Daily Post.
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