Another Nollywood veteran practitioner dies

It is again, another tragedy in the Nigerian movie industry; popularly called Nollywood as reports has it that a veteran movie director, Moses Ebere, is dead.

His colleague, Amayo Uzo Philip announced the death on his facebook page as he the ace director who worked on Nollywood classics like ‘Living In Bondage’, died on Tuesday, the 22nd of February, 2022.

Amayo Uzo wrote: “Heard very bad news about Moses Ebere, one of the oldest Nollywood veteran directors. Met him in the ’80s as a powerful editor and that was before the coming of Nollywood.”

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“Spoke with him regularly recently because he was planning to come [and] shoot in my state. And I was helping him with an epic location. Tonight one of my writer friends called me to say that Moses has passed on today. Sad news for me.”

National Daily gathered that the director’s guild in Abia state — where the deceased hailed from — is still working to ascertain the circumstances surrounding Ebere’s death.

“He’s a part of the director’s guild. It’s just the death that the friends told us. Until the Abia state is able to contact the family to ascertain the position of things, we can’t say anything on the circumstances of his death”.