Nollywood Actress Mojisola Olaiya Dies Of Cardiac Arrest At 42

Mojisola Olaiya nollywood actress and the daughter to popular music legend Victor Olaiya has passed away after battling with cardiac arrest.

Her death comes after 2 months welcoming of her second child birth. Mojisola was reportedly said to have been caught with cardiac arrest in Canada.

Mojisoal Olaiya with the Ooni of Ife

Moji Olaiya began her acting career with Wale Adenuga's production Super Story. She starred in several Nollywood movies of Yoruba and English genres. She was known for her roles in films such as No Pains No Gains, in which she played Ireti, Sade Blade (2005), Nkan adun (2008) and Omo iya meta leyi.

Moji Olaiya breathed her last at 3am in an ambulance that was taking her to the hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest at her friend’s Ontario home.

Mojisola Olaiya and Bukky Wright

Moji Olaiya is survived by her two parents – her father is highlife icon Victor Olaiya, her two daughters – one aged 20 and the other only two months old – who she had gone to Canada to deliver.

Mojisola and Olamide

However, her 20-year-old daughter, Adun is having none of that and insists that her mother’s corpse be brought back for burial in Nigeria.

Although family members ushered her into a secluded room to calm her down, the grieving young lady kept repeating that she wants to see her mother.

Adun Olaiya, Mojisola 1st child

‘She must be brought back,’ Adun said. ‘I don’t care what anybody says, I just want my mother’s body’.

It could however be difficult to bury her the same day as internments are costly in developed countries.

In Canada where she died, funeral costs can rise as high as $15,000. Flying her body back on the other hand could cost around half that figure.

There is no concrete plan for her burial at this minute.

Mojisola and Femi on set