Eddie Ugbomah
7 Dec 2019
Late Nigerian movie legend Eddie Ugbomah and other practicing professionals, including veteran actress Joke Silva, have been honoured with the Movie Rock of Fame Award of the Nigerian film industry.
13 May 2019
President Muhammadu Buhari has joined the entertainment industry, particularly moviemakers, in mourning veteran filmmaker, Eddie Ugbomah, who died at 78.
12 May 2019
“We lost him. He couldn’t wait for the surgery. Chief Eddie Ugbomah has just passed on. He died exactly an hour ago,” the terse message from Shaibu Husseini announced the death of veteran filmmaker and one of Nigeria’s most prolific cine creators of the celluloid era. Ugbomah died at a private hospital in Lagos at…
25 Nov 2018
The name Eddie Ugbomah cannot be forgotten easily in the Nigerian and African movie industry, especially with iconic films like The Rise and Fall of Oyenusi (1977), The Mask (1979), Oil Doom (1980), Death of a Black President....
24 Jun 2018
Eddie Ugbomah is a veteran Nigerian filmmaker. He has directed and produced over 12 films, including the Rise and Fall of Oyenusi, The Boy is Good and Apalara, as well as documentaries on economic and social issues. He spoke to OMIKO AWA on the challenges facing the Nigerian cinema and the way forward. Why are…
30 Nov 2017
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14 Nov 2017
For the most part of 30 years in which Nigeria’s foremost culture edifice, National Theatre, has been in comatose, government has lost over N300 billion.
30 Aug 2017
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20 Aug 2017
The first induction, held in 2006, had inductees like Brenda Shehu, Laraban Nuhu, late Baba Gana, the emir actor (Magana Garichi), actor and former NTA star, Sadiq Daba, famous actor Kazeem Yaro of the Cock Crow at Dawn TV series....
29 Jul 2017
Without Kenny Ogungbe and D1, who turned Nigerian music around to the extent that we are no more craving for the likes of Michael Jackson and Cliff Richard, you won’t have an industry to play in today.
11 Dec 2016
Chief Eddie Ugbomah 76th birthday gig, book launch and unveil of Movie And Music Makers Hall Of Fame gallery billed to hold on Monday, December 19 at Asaba, Delta State, ....
23 Oct 2016
I’m very grateful to God for sparing my life till this moment. I became a man at the age of 10, when I started fending for myself and growing up in a competitive society.
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