Veteran Nollywood actor Taiwo Hassan, popularly known as Ogogo, was buried in Ilaro, Ogun State, on Monday, 24 August 2026. Family members, colleagues, friends and sympathisers gathered to pay their final respects to the 66-year-old Yoruba film actor.
P.M. News reported that Hassan was laid to rest according to Islamic rites. PUNCH Newspapers said mourners wept during the burial in Ilaro, while both publications carried video reports of the ceremony.
The burial brought together members of Hassan’s family and people connected to his career in the film industry. However, the reports supplied did not identify the colleagues who attended or provide details of any tributes delivered during the ceremony.
The available accounts also did not state the date of Hassan’s death, its cause or the circumstances surrounding it. No statement from his family was included in the supplied evidence.