{"id":1090867,"date":"2022-05-17T22:14:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T22:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/nollywood-actor-leo-mezie-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T22:14:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T22:14:16","slug":"nollywood-actor-leo-mezie-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/nollywood-actor-leo-mezie-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Nollywood Actor, Leo Mezie Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Nollywood Actor, Leo Mezie\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of Nollywood\u2019s legendary actors, Leo Mezie is reportedly dead.<\/p>\n<p>Mezie has been battling with kidney problem and had a transplant over 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that he had another transplant last week which led to some complications.<\/p>\n<p>He died on Saturday, May 14, 2022 but the news of his passing spread on Monday. Nollywood actress, Chioma Toplis, confirmed the sad news in a post on Instagram on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say Mezie had been frequenting the hospital trying to get back on his feet before his death.<\/p>\n<p>Chioma wrote \u201cActor Leo Mezie is dead. He died on Saturday in Abuja while recovering from a kidney transplant. His corpse has been moved to Umuahia his hometown. RIP Leo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mezie\u2019s passing followed the death of another Nollywood veteran, Sir David Osagie, who reportedly died on set some days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, known for playing the role of a king in most movies, died hours after he was on a movie set.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nollywood Actor, Leo Mezie\u00a0 One of Nollywood\u2019s legendary actors, Leo Mezie is reportedly dead. Mezie has been battling with kidney problem and had a transplant over 4 years ago. It was reported that he had another transplant last week which led to some complications. He died on Saturday, May 14, 2022 but the news of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[763,303,2623,13773,304],"class_list":["post-1090867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-dead","tag-leo","tag-mezie","tag-nollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090867","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=1090867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}