Legendary Nollywood actor, Kola Oyewo,<\/strong> has opened up about how prostate enlargement has taken a toll on his health.<\/p>\n Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that Oyewo, in an interview with Nollywood actor, Kunle Afod, during a visit to his residence, said the illness has prevented him from taking certain roles.<\/p>\n Narrating how the ailment started, Oyewo explained that he was diagnosed after experiencing sleepless nights and frequent urination, among other symptoms.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cBefore now, I could go from one location to another and play any role, but the illness has laid me back. I can no longer play certain roles except for some minor roles.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI thank God because I\u2019m getting better now. You can\u2019t go through some kind of sickness and go back to how you\u2019ve been before, but I thank God,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThere are so many people of my age that are still stronger than I am, but I thank God for preserving my life. I drove myself to the hospital after having sleepless nights, frequent urination and sometimes urinating on my body before I got to the toilet. After a series of tests, I was diagnosed with an enlarged prostate.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Oyewo joined the movie industry in 1964, gaining popularity with \u2018The Gods are not to blame\u2019 and \u2018Sango\u2019.<\/p>\n The movie star was also a lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, in Ile-Ife, Osun State, from 1996 till he retired in 2011.<\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Legendary Nollywood actor, Kola Oyewo, has opened up about how prostate enlargement has taken a toll on his health. Abia Radio News reports that Oyewo, in an interview with Nollywood actor, Kunle Afod, during a visit to his residence, said the illness has prevented him from taking certain roles. Narrating how the ailment started, Oyewo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":242341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Veteran-Actor-Kola-Oyewo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242340","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=242340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}