adminAMAKA Igwe, the foremost producer, writer, director and creator of Fuji House of Commotion, has died. She was 51. Family members told this publication she passed away on Monday night in Enugu.
She was reportedly in company of her husband for pre-production preparations for a new Igbo soap.
The source said she suffered an asthma attack and was immediately rushed to the hospital after initial interventions had failed.
She passed on before getting to the hospital.
The deceased was an accomplished writer, producer, director, entrepreneur and teacher.
She was the founder of BoBTV Expo, founder and CEO of Top Radio 90.9FM, Amaka Igwe Studios, and the newly-launched Q Entertainment Networks.
A visionary and pioneer of modern Nigerian TV drama and film, she hit national limelight as the writer and producer of award-winning TV soap ‘Checkmate’ and its off shoot ‘Fuji House of Commotion’.
Her Nollywood projects include Rattle Snake and Violated – two critically-acclaimed movies that set apart Amaka Igwe Studios in the much-criticised Nollywood industry.
Igwe studied Education/Religion at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University).
She had a Master’s Degree from the University of Ibadan.
She had her early education at All Saints School (Now Trans Ekulu Primary School), Girls High School Awkunanaw, Enugu and Idia College, Benin.
She worked as a lecturer at the Anambra State University of Technology and briefly in oil and Gas, before settling for the motion picture industry.
Igwe is survived by her husband of 21 years Charles Igwe, and three children. — CAJ News.
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