{"id":1085821,"date":"2022-05-13T09:13:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T09:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/13\/nollywood-actor-gbenga-richards-has-died-photo\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T09:13:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T09:13:26","slug":"nollywood-actor-gbenga-richards-has-died-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/13\/nollywood-actor-gbenga-richards-has-died-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nollywood Actor Gbenga Richards Has Died &#8211; PHOTO |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Actor Gbenga Richards is dead.\u00a0He died on Thursday morning, May 12, after battling acute diabetes and high blood pressure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Richards, who was a force to reckon with in the early days of Nollywood, reportedly suffered from the ailments which kept him in and out of hospital until he died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Richards\u2019 first appearance as an actor was representing Nigeria with Hubert Ogunde at the Second World Black and African Festival of African Culture (FESTAC) in 1977.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He also featured in blockbuster movies like \u2018Sango\u2019, \u2018Mirror in the Sun\u2019, \u2018Betrayal by Love\u2019, \u2018Fighting Machine\u2019 and a host of others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>May his soul rest in peace, Amen.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\"><\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of .  accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of content. Please report any inappropriate content to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Gbenga Richards is dead.\u00a0He died on Thursday morning, May 12, after battling acute diabetes and high blood pressure.\u00a0 Richards, who was a force to reckon with in the early days of Nollywood, reportedly suffered from the ailments which kept him in and out of hospital until he died.\u00a0 Richards\u2019 first appearance as an actor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1085823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[763,7763,13328,304,2226,13329],"class_list":["post-1085821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-died","tag-gbenga","tag-nollywood","tag-photo","tag-richards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}