After initial denial, veteran actor Sadiq Daba confirms he has leukaemia

A week after denying claims that he is dying of leukaemia, veteran Nollywood actor Sadiq Daba has finally come out of his closet, confirming that he had indeed been diagnosed of the disease.

The slim built actor in an interview with PUNCH revealed that the disease caught him unawares in the year 2015 even as he initially thought that he was having the first symptoms of a minor ailment but was proved wrong after extensive tests.

“I thought I had malaria fever. So I went to a hospital in Abuja for a test. After a series of tests, the doctor was shocked. He told me that what I had was beyond them at the hospital. He advised me to seek help from a tertiary institution. The tertiary institution, in this case, simply refers to a university teaching hospital. That was in 2015.

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“Then I went to the Dermatology Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and it was confirmed that I had leukaemia. Fortunately, the disease was not overblown yet. It was still at the early and manageable stage. I was placed on drugs,” Daba revealed.

Sunny Mac Don was the first to break the news that Daba had been diagnosed of Leukemia when he wrote thus on his Facebook page last week; “Dear colleagues and friends in Nollywood especially some of us that date back to NTA days. Please put a call to Uncle Sadiq Daba; he needs your voice of strength please as he is diagnosed of Leukaemia.”

Daba has worked as a broadcaster for Nigerian Television Authority and came into acting prominence in the late 1970s, when he starred in the now rested TV series titled “Cockcrow at Dawn”.

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