Ogogo’s Daughters Cry for Help as Actor Battles Stage-Four Cancer

Ogogo’s daughters make emotional appeal

The daughters of veteran Nollywood actor Taiwo Hassan, popularly known as Ogogo, have made an emotional appeal for urgent medical assistance after revealing that their father is battling stage-four cancer.

Lima and Kira Taiwo made separate appeals on Instagram on Monday, August 17, asking medical professionals, hospitals and anyone with access to cancer treatment to help save the 66-year-old actor.

ValidViewNetwork reports that the family is seeking medical intervention rather than financial donations.

Lima, visibly emotional in her video, said her father’s condition had become critical and that hospitals had refused to continue treating him. She said the family only discovered the severity of his condition about three weeks ago.

According to her, Ogogo’s appearance had initially given little indication of how serious the illness had become.

“You see him, you can’t even know that. Something is wrong that bad. It’s just starting to show. We didn’t even know until like three weeks ago,” she said.

Lima appealed to anyone who could connect the family with a medical specialist or facility capable of treating her father.

“Please, I’m begging you. If you know somebody that knows somebody that will be willing to treat him, anything, we’re willing to try anything,” she said.

She stressed that the family was not asking Nigerians for money.

“Nobody’s here to ask for money,” she added.

Daughter reveals hospital stopped chemotherapy

Kira Taiwo also made a separate emotional appeal, confirming that her father was battling stage-four cancer. She said the hospital treating him had told the family that it could no longer continue chemotherapy.

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ValidViewNetwork reports that Kira specifically appealed to people with access to cancer specialists and treatment facilities to intervene.

“And I really, really, really love to appreciate Senator Yayi. He has been the one helping us, he has been the one footing the bills,” Kira said.

She identified Senator Yayi as one of those who had supported the family financially during the ordeal.Kira, however, said the family’s immediate need was not money but treatment.

She appealed to anyone who could provide a viable medical option to contact her, her sister or their father.

“Please, please, if you can treat my daddy, please send me a DM. I’ll be checking my phone. Please, I don’t want my daddy to die,” she said.

Her appeal comes with the family facing a particularly difficult reality. Kira said she had never seen her father experience such severe pain.

“He’s saying that he doesn’t want to die,” she said. As of the time of reporting, Ogogo’s management and family had not publicly disclosed the specific type of cancer involved or the name of the hospital where he had been receiving treatment.

The stage-four disclosure therefore remains based on the statements made publicly by his daughters.

Ogogo had survived another devastating health battle

The latest health crisis is not the first time Ogogo has faced a serious threat to his life.

In July 2025, the actor opened up about a seven-year battle with chronic ulcer that he described as one of the most terrible periods of his life.

Ogogo said the illness began suddenly while he was travelling to a movie location. He experienced severe chest pain that radiated towards his back before eventually seeking medical attention.

He was later diagnosed with chronic ulcer. The condition became so severe that he said he vomited blood for seven months and survived on pap because he could not eat normal food.

“For a good seven years, I prayed while sitting, and I couldn’t eat anything except pap. It was a terrible period of my life,” Ogogo recalled during an interview with Oyinmomo TV.

ValidViewNetwork reports that the prolonged illness also kept him away from movie locations and forced him to seek different forms of treatment.

At one point, Ogogo said he believed he might die.“I thought I would die and threw away my Mecca teeth,” he recalled.

His earlier illness was also traumatic for his children. In a 2018 interview, one of his daughters recalled watching her father survive for years on pap and water and described the period as emotionally devastating for the family.

She said he had undergone surgery after suffering from appendicitis and chronic ulcer.

That history gives the present appeal a painful resonance. Ogogo once fought his way back from an illness that left him weak, unable to eat normally and convinced that death was close.

Now, according to his daughters, the veteran actor is facing another serious health battle. The immediate request from his family is therefore clear; they want access to medical expertise and treatment that could give their father another chance.

For a man who has spent decades entertaining Nigerian audiences, his daughters are now asking Nigerians to help him fight for his own life.

ValidViewNetwork reports that the family has urged medical professionals, cancer specialists, hospitals and individuals with credible access to appropriate treatment to contact them urgently.