The hard-as-nails defender, a member of the Super Eagles squad that won bronze medal at the 1992 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Senegal, suffered a heart attack and lost the battle at a private hospital in Ibadan.
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Babalade, 48, died of cardiac arrest on Friday in Ibadan.
Football mates and tenants who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria at his residence described his death as a great loss and shock.
Shorunmu told newsmen in Ibadan, Oyo State that Babalade died at the University College Hospital gate in Ibadan on Friday after he was denied treatment by a private hospital.
Available information has it that Babalade, who played a part in the Senegal ’92 African Cup of Nations with the Super Eagles, died on Friday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital