{"id":234447,"date":"2025-08-15T20:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/popular-nigerian-actor-chief-kanran-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:08:37","slug":"popular-nigerian-actor-chief-kanran-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/popular-nigerian-actor-chief-kanran-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Nigerian actor Chief Kanran is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nigerian actor Chief Kanran is dead<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Famous Nollywood actor Olusegun Akinremi, professionally known as Chief Kanran, is dead.<\/p>\n<p>The actor reportedly died at the age of 72 on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Seun Oloketuyi, a popular filmmaker, announced the actor\u2019s passing in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPopular actor, Segun Remi died Friday morning,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of filing this report, details about his death were still sketchy.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that Chief Kanran, who was a household name in the Yoruba film industry, was known for his role as General Philips in episode 13 of the now-rested TV soap Megafortune.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>Chief Kanran,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/08\/15\/popular-nigerian-actor-chief-kanran-is-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Nigerian actor Chief Kanran is dead Famous Nollywood actor Olusegun Akinremi, professionally known as Chief Kanran, is dead. The actor reportedly died at the age of 72 on Friday morning. Seun Oloketuyi, a popular filmmaker, announced the actor\u2019s passing in a post on Instagram. \u201cPopular actor, Segun Remi died Friday morning,\u201d he wrote. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1559],"class_list":["post-234447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-chief-kanran"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}