{"id":232580,"date":"2026-05-07T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-i-once-priced-my-own-casket-dele-odule\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:52:23","slug":"nigeria-why-i-once-priced-my-own-casket-dele-odule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-i-once-priced-my-own-casket-dele-odule\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Why I Once Priced My Own Casket &#8211; &#8211; Dele Odule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>He opened up on a deeply personal and emotional chapter of his life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Veteran actor Dele Odule has opened up on a deeply personal and emotional chapter of his life that led him to price his own casket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Speaking during an interview on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NLBnwyStiCs?si=Y_01mcjuVUPFnMTE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feelright TV<\/a><\/strong>, which went viral on Wednesday, Odule said he made the decision during a difficult period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Recounting the experience, the 64-year-old said: &#8220;I had priced my own casket before, when things were not going well for me, and I was in a state of hopelessness. I&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605070360.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>He opened up on a deeply personal and emotional chapter of his life. Veteran actor Dele Odule has opened up on a deeply personal and emotional chapter of his life that led him to price his own casket. Speaking during an interview on Feelright TV, which went viral on Wednesday, Odule said he made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232581,"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":[258,256,16067,15619,257,4687,393,54348,54347,254],"class_list":["post-232580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-casket","tag-dele","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-odule","tag-priced","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\/232580","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=232580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}