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SEGUN ODEGBAMI LOOSES SON

  Ex-International, Segun Odegbami, has lost his son, Oluwagbeminiyi, after a brief illness. Oluwagbeminiyi was said to have died in the early hours of Good Friday, March 29, 2024. Odegbami, who was an integral part of the Green Eagles team that won the 1980 African Cup of Nations, penned an emotional tribute to his son, describing him as a “highly gifted, multi-talented young man.” The ex-international noted that he and Oluwagbeminiyi were working on a documentary project when he received the deceased’s phone call in Ghana, requesting his (Segun) synopsis. He wrote, “It is completely impossible to think that I am writing about Oluwagbeminiyi Omo Odegbami in the past tense. “One day to Good Friday, his message woke me up whilst I was in Accra, Ghana.  He wanted my summary of the synopsis of the documentary project we were working on. “I told him not to wait for me but to go ahead and apply his abundant creativity to the project.  I was not exaggerating. Gbemi was an unknown and unappre