{"id":201260,"date":"2025-06-30T08:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ace-filmmaker-kayode-peters-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:28:28","slug":"nigeria-ace-filmmaker-kayode-peters-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ace-filmmaker-kayode-peters-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Ace Filmmaker, Kayode Peters, Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>Peters was best known for producing the hit comedy, Flatmates, in the early 2000s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Renowned Nigerian film and stage producer Kayode Peters has died in Toronto, Canada. He was 49.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">News of his death filtered in early Saturday before his family <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DLcx0wuOgyV\/?igsh=c3Zya3BpNzBsNWNp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a><\/strong> it on his official Instagram page later in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Their statement read, &#8220;It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved, Kayode Peters Adewumi, who passed on peacefully this morning, 28 June 2025, in Toronto, Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">&#8220;KP&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506300074.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peters was best known for producing the hit comedy, Flatmates, in the early 2000s. Renowned Nigerian film and stage producer Kayode Peters has died in Toronto, Canada. He was 49. News of his death filtered in early Saturday before his family confirmed it on his official Instagram page later in the day. Their statement read, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201261,"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":[17072,258,256,8096,22032,50175,257,4687,393,12802,254],"class_list":["post-201260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-ace","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dead","tag-filmmaker","tag-kayode","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-peters","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/201260","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=201260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}