Ethel Ekpe
Veteran Nollywood actress, Ethel Ekpe, is dead
Ethel Ekpe, a veteran actress who appeared on the Nigerian entertainment screen, died of cancer on Wednesday in Lagos State.
The late actress played ‘Segi’ in the defunct sitcom on Nigerian Television Authority by Ken Saro Wiwa named ‘Basi and Company’.
Ekpe also featured in Amaka Igwe’s ‘Forever’ and the ‘Sons of the Caliphate.’
The news of her death was announced by the Director-General, National Film and Video Censors Board, Dr. Shaibu Husseini, in a late Facebook post on Wednesday.
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Husseini wrote, “I have been reliably informed that Ethel Ekpe, (Ethel Aderemi nee Ekpe), the screen beauty that delighted fans with her inimitable interpretation of the role of Segi in the defunct sitcom on Nigerian Television Authority by Ken Saro Wiwa titled ‘Basi and Company’ has passed on.
“The actress and later day Pastor and star of Amaka Igwe’s ‘Forever’ and most recently ‘Sons of the Caliphate” reportedly died of Cancer today in Lagos.”
“She will be sorely missed,” adding that his family “will particularly miss her because we named my second daughter Ethel, after her. Good night good woman!”
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