{"id":236220,"date":"2025-10-03T09:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/popular-nollywood-actor-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:58:13","slug":"popular-nollywood-actor-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/popular-nollywood-actor-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Nollywood Actor Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<h2>The Nollywood industry has been thrown into mourning following the death of veteran actor, Duro Michael.<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong>Abia Radio News<\/strong>\u00a0reports that\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nollywood<\/a> producer, Stanley Ontop, announced Michael\u2019s demise in a post on his Instagram page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stanley said Michael reportedly passed away a few days ago after battling a terminal illness.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3 ai-track\" data-ai=\"WzMsMCwiSXNhYWMiLCIiLDRd\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myafrilearn.com\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He wrote: <em>\u201cNollywood actor Duro Michael had kicked the bucket. He died a few days ago after battling a terminal illness\u2026 may his soul rest in peace. Omo, it\u2019s well ooo.\u00a0 We no dey help ourselves in this Nollywood, and it\u2019s too bad\u2026 No synergy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Micheal, who had been bedridden for some time, received \u20a65 million in financial support from Prophet Jeremiah Fufeyin towards his treatment, though his condition worsened.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Michael appealed to producers for financial assistance and to continue casting him in movies.<\/p>\n<p>Michael appeared in several Nollywood movies, including Midnight Love (2003) and The Guilty (2006).<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Nollywood actor\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/naijanews.com\/topic\/Yul-Edochie\">Yul Edochie<\/a>\u00a0has <strong>raised concerns over the declining use of the Igbo language<\/strong> among the younger generation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abia Radio News<\/strong>\u00a0reports that in a Facebook post, the father of five said that many Igbo children today are unable to speak their mother tongue.<\/p>\n<p>He described it as a failure that must be addressed by parents and the community.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 --><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span class=\"copyright\"><strong>\u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of  Tee Global Innnovations  [abiaradios@gmail.com].  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He wrote: \u201cNollywood actor Duro Michael had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":236221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[2102,2103,344],"class_list":["post-236220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-duro-michael","tag-duro-michael-dead","tag-nollywood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Duro-Micheal.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236220","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}