Lagos, Feb. 8, 2024 (NAN) Actress and television personality, Ethel Aderemi-Ekpe, who played the role of Segi inĀ Basi and Company, a sitcom that ran on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), has died.
Dr. Shaibu Husseini, Executive Director of the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), disclosed her death in a Facebook post on Monday night.
Husseini wrote: āEthel 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 āBasi and Companyā, has passed on.
āThe actress and later-day pastor and star of Amaka Igweās āForeverā and most recently āSons of the Caliphateā reportedly died of cancer today in Lagos.
āShe will be sorely missed. My family will particularly miss her because we named my second daughter, Ethel, after her. Good night, good woman!.ā (NAN)
