Veteran actress, Ethel Ekpe, who adorned the Nigerian entertainment screen, died of cancer on Wednesday in Lagos State. The type of cancer was not specified.
The late actress played the role of Segi in the defunct sitcom on Nigerian Television Authority by Ken Saro Wiwa titled 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.
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’s Basi and Company, has passed on.
“The actress and later, 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. My family will particularly miss her because we named my second daughter Ethel, after her. Good night, good woman!”
