The Federal Government has expressed shock and sadness at the death of veteran movie producer, Eddie Ugbomah, calling him a worthy pioneer of today’s burgeoning Nollywood industry.
Ugbomah, renowned for films like Rise and Fall of Oyenusi, Death of a Black President and The Boy is Good, died at the age of 78 on Saturday, May 11.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday, the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed, said the fact that Ugbomah lived a purposeful life and left his footprint in the sands of time is a soothing consolation for all who knew him.
”In his lifetime, Chief Ugbomah produced a number of avant-garde movies that blazed the trail and fired the imagination of those who would later become the top producers in today’s Nollywood. In a way, the success of the industry is a tribute to him and his co-pioneers,” the minister said.
He expressed Federal Government’s condolences to the family and friends of the late filmmaker and prayed that God will grant him eternal rest and comfort his family.
