Baba Bintin, a presenter with Ibadan-based private radio station Fresh FM Nigeria, died after collapsing on his way to the radio station for his program on Saturday.
Baba Bintin’s death was announced during a radio programme by the station on Saturday.
“I’m finding it very difficult to believe this story that is breaking here,” popular presenter, Mayor Isaac Brown, said on the radio station.
“He (Baba Bintin) left his home like we all did this morning to come into this station to do our daily job and contribute our quota to national development; the job like we love to do, and I’m being told that the man just slumped this morning and he died while getting ready to come here.”
Baba Bintin, who usually spoke in Ijesha dialect and was known as “Boda Olu” and “Uncle” by Komolafe Olaiya, was a comic presenter on the Oyin Ado programme on Saturdays on the Radio Station, where he gave market updates until his death.
The presenter’s unusual tardiness to the studio on Saturday was discussed by his colleagues on the radio station, but near the end of the program, presenters announced that Baba Bintin died while trekking from Amuloko to Fresh FM at Challenge.
According to reports, he was looking for a POS agent to cash some money.
