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EKITI BORN EX-SUPER FALCONS GOALKEEPER DIES OF BREAST CANCER

Ekiti State-born former Super Falcons goalkeeper, Bidemi Grace Ebunoluwa Aluko-Olaseni is dead.

The deceased shot stopper reportedly passed away after battling cancer for eight years.

The demise of Aluko-Olasenu was made public on X platform by a social media influencer; Ekiti Baby Governor TK.

He announced that the late shot-stopper, a “former Falconet goalkeeper, former Rivers Angel keeper, former Ekiti Babes Goalkeeper, Former Sunshine Queens goalkeeper, former Olgar Queens goalkeeper, FCT Babes Alumna, former Makbet Queens goalkeeper had passed on.


Bidemi who would have been 43 this year reportedly died on Friday at UCH Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, after eight years of battle with a rare form of breast cancer. She was an indigene of Ijurin-Ekiti in Ijero Local Government area of Ekiti State.

In 2019 she took to social media to solicitate funds from well-meaning Nigerians to raise about #5 million naira for treatment/surgery.

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