Veteran comic actor, Femi Ogunrombi, who is popular for his role in Wale Adenuga’s Comedy series “Papa Ajasco”, is dead.

His death was confirmed by a theatre practitioner, Husseini Shaibu, via his Twitter handle on Sunday.

Though details about the sad developmen tare quite sketchy, Husseini confirmed that the seasoned Thespian breathed his last on Saturday, January 14, 2023.

“I have just been reliably informed that the ethnomusicologist, former Music Instructor with the NationalTroupe OfNigeria and one-time stand in for the ‘Papa Ajasco’ character on the popular WAP Comic Series ‘Papa Ajasco’ Mr. Femi Ogunrombi is DEAD.

“I am told that the actor, singer and trained Nurse whom we fondly called ‘Uncle Ogurombo’ (not to his hearing though) passed on this evening”, he wrote.

DIPLOMATIC DIARY reports that Femi Ogunrombi was the face of Papa Ajasco, a TV family comedy.

Ogunrombi took over the character, Papa Ajasco when the former character, Abiodun Ayoyinka pulled out of the show.

Popularly known for his bald head, Ogunrombi was the Director of Studies at the Pencil Film and Television Institute, Lagos. He has over three-decade experience as a musicologist.

The late Papa Ajasco was a recipient of many local and international awards, most notably in 1995 when he was awarded a gold plaque and a Diploma Certificate in Creative Composition in North Korea for performing a song in that language.

Before his death, the actor was also the Founder and Director of the famous Ayoro Voices, a performing choral group in the University of Ife.

He studied at Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-ife, after his secondary school at Adventist Grammar School, Ede, in Osun State.