Veteran filmmaker, Eddie Ugbomah is dead. He died on Saturday, May 11th, 2019 at a private hospital in Lagos at the age of 78.

His demise was announced by Shaibu Husseini, he said;

“I have the permission of the Chair of the Chief Eddie Ugbomah Medical Fund Committee Alhaji Adedayo Thomas (DG, NFVCB) to break the news of the passage into eternity of the Veteran Filmmaker Chief Eddie Ugbomah, OON.”

“The veteran filmmaker died an hour ago at the hospital where he was scheduled to undergo a surgery on Monday.”

“Sad, but we totally submit to the Almighty.”

For those who don’t know, Chief Ugbomah was a Nigerian film director and producer. He directed and produced films such as the Rise and Fall of Oyenusi in 1979, The Boy is Good and Apalara, a film about the life and murder of Alfa Apalara in Oko Awo, Lagos.