Nollywood actor, Olumide Bakare battles heart ailment

By Ahmed Boulor

63 year-old Nollywood actor, Olumide Bakare, is reported to be in a critical condition after suffering a heart seizure which landed him at the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan, Oyo State.

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The thespian has been admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital where he is been treated by doctors and watched over by his sister, Shade, who has called for fans and other well-meaning Nigerian’s to pray for the speedy recovery of the actor.

It would be recalled that the usually lively actor suffered a bout of cardiac arrest in 2013 which he luckily survived and has since then been watching his health before suffering his latest attack.

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