{"id":8114,"date":"2013-08-10T21:44:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T21:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/waka-creator-batili-alake-dies\/"},"modified":"2013-08-10T21:44:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T21:44:52","slug":"waka-creator-batili-alake-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/waka-creator-batili-alake-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Waka Creator, Batili Alake dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abiodun Onafuye\/Abeokuta<\/strong><\/p>\n Alhaja Batili Alake, popular Waka creator and singer singer died today in her home at Ijebu Igbo in Ijebu North local government area of Ogun State, in western Nigeria.<\/p>\n The waka singer who was popular for about four decades till around early 90′s gave up the ghost early today, after a protracted illness.<\/p>\n She was buried at exactly 4:20pm today at her residence in Oke Liyan area of Paroba,Oke Sopin in Ijebu Igbo according to Islamic rites.<\/p>\n “Mama was ill for sometimes now and in the last few days towards the of end of Ramadan,she was getting better until the illness relapsed again and resulted in death”, said a female relation of the singer. <\/p>\n