Sun Sets for Cockcrow at Dawn Star, Sadiq Daba

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Star of the Cockcrow at Dawn TV drama series, Sadiq Daba aka Bitrus is dead.

Daba, who had a long battle with leukemia and prostrate cancer, died last night at about 8:30 pm.

Joe Odumakin, Daba’s friend, said; “We have lost Sadiq. It is so painful because I spoke to him a few days ago when his wife became a permanent secretary. I called his number some hours ago but his son picked it. I told him to give the phone to his father but he told me that his father is gone. I had to ask; gone to where?

 “His wife just called me now and we spoke. She said that she was at the morgue. I asked what happened and she told me that about a week ago, he had been ill but he had been home and that he went to the hospital late afternoon today.

“She explained that he had not been eating much and that as soon as they got to the hospital, they started conducting different tests on him including COVID-19. They put him on oxygen but he died around 8:30 pm.”

In 2017, Daba announced that he had been diagnosed with Leukemia and Prostate Cancer and was supported with fundraising by several Nigerians.

Before his death, He worked as a broadcaster for Nigerian Television Authority. His acting career came to prominence in the late 1970s, starring in Cockcrow at Dawn.

He was in blockbuster movies like Citation, October 1, among many others.

In 2015, he won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as “Inspector Waziri” on October 1.

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