By Oluwatosin Maliki
Veteran Hausa actor Usman Baba Pategi, popularly known as Samanja, is dead.
QUEST TIMES gathered that the actor passed on in the early hours of Sunday morning at a private hospital in Kaduna State after battling with a prolonged illness.
It was learned that the late Kannywood actor served in the Nigerian Army before eventually retiring to work for the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) in Kaduna State.
The drama actor died at the age of 84, leaving behind two wives and twelve children.
In a statement issued by one of his sons, Mohammad Usman, he said the funeral prayer will be held at the Kabala Costain mosque in the Kaduna metropolis, in accordance with an Islamic injunction.