{"id":4853,"date":"2023-12-23T18:58:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T18:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2023-12-23T18:58:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T18:58:35","slug":"veteran-actor-dejumo-lewis-of-village-headmaster-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/23\/veteran-actor-dejumo-lewis-of-village-headmaster-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Actor Dejumo Lewis Of Village Headmaster Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Veteran Nollywood actor, Dejumo Lewis, is dead. He aged 80.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gatekeepersnews.com\/\">Gatekeepers News<\/a> reports that the actor Lewis demise was confirmed by actor, Saidi Balogun, via a post shared on Instagram account on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sharing the photo of the late veteran, Saidi wrote, \u201cGood night DEJUMO LEWIS, may your soul rest in perfect peace. RIP.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lewis is a Nigerian film and television actor, famous for the Kabiyesi role in The Village Headmaster, Nigeria\u2019s longest-running television soap opera shown on NTA from 1968 to 1988 that stared Justus Esiri and Femi Robinson and many others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lewis is also known for his memorable performances in acclaimed films such as \u201cA Place in the Stars\u201d (2014), \u201cCrossroads\u201d (2020), and \u201cPower of 1\u201d (2018).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Nollywood actor, Dejumo Lewis, is dead. He aged 80. Gatekeepers News reports that the actor Lewis demise was confirmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainments-and-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}