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As a young actor, Mr Balogun won hearts by depicting ‘fine boy’ characters in the mould of an Emeka Ike but with the mien of a stone-cold killer.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a tough year, but his grace saw me through. Thank God for another year.”<\/p>\n
Those were the words on his Facebook<\/a><\/strong> page as he marked his birthday on 12 June.<\/p>\n Those who watched Nigerian movies in the industry’s formative years would agree that actor Lanre Balogun came, he played and left his mark in the Nigerian entertainment scene, particularly in…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> As a young actor, Mr Balogun won hearts by depicting ‘fine boy’ characters in the mould of an Emeka Ike but with the mien of a stone-cold killer. “It’s been a tough year, but his grace saw me through. Thank God for another year.” Those were the words on his Facebook page as he marked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,21446,14700,26475,51692,257,4687,393,254,51691,49081],"class_list":["post-200618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-balogun","tag-fame","tag-lanre","tag-magun","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thunderbolt","tag-wheres"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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