{"id":137339,"date":"2025-09-14T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137339\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:41:08","slug":"yoruba-actor-chief-kanran-laid-to-rest-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/137339\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoruba actor Chief Kanran laid to rest in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2485342\/bio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Segun Remi<\/a>, popularly known as Chief Kanran, has been laid to rest following his death on August 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old, celebrated for his remarkable contributions to the Yoruba movie industry, was buried on Friday, September 12, at his residence in Beckley Estate, Abule Egba, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Though the cause of his death remains undisclosed, his passing has plunged the movie industry into mourning.<\/p>\n<p>Videos shared on CityPeopleTV\u2019s Instagram page showed the late actor\u2019s body in a white coffin during the viewing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a particularly emotional moment, his immediate elder sister broke down in tears upon seeing his remains, before relatives and sympathisers consoled her.<\/p>\n<p>Fans also expressed their grief online, offering prayers for the repose of his soul and strength for his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran actor Segun Remi, popularly known as Chief Kanran, has been laid to rest following his death on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,64043,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-137339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-chief-kanran","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}