<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/blessedson/2017/02/12/Nollywood-stars-you-still-may-not-know-have-died-theifong.com_.png"><img class="alignnone wp-image-162378" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/blessedson/2017/02/12/Nollywood-stars-you-still-may-not-know-have-died-theifong.com_.png" alt="" width="462" height="285" /></a></span></p> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Nollywood stars you still may not know have died</strong> - These demised stars would always be remembered for their role in one way or the other in the development of the Nigerian movie industry- Nollywood. It’s not an understatement to assert that their death shook Nollywood to its core at the time each of their demise occurred. </span><span style="color: #000000;">They are however remembered for the legacies they left behind.</span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>More..</strong></span> <ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://theinfong.com/2017/02/11-memorable-celebrity-wardrobe-malfunction-brace-pictures/" target="_blank">11 most memorable celebrity wardrobe malfunction – Brace yourself for #7 & #10 (With Pictures)</a></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://theinfong.com/2017/01/15-nigerian-billionaires-private-jets-number-3-five-aircrafts-pictures/" target="_blank">15 Nigerian billionaires that own private Jets -Number 3 has up to five Aircrafts (With Pictures)</a></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://theinfong.com/2017/02/signs-that-show-she-will-be-a-stingy-girlfriend/" target="_blank">Signs that show she will be a stingy girlfriend – Run away if she does #7.. Please!</a></span></li> <li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://theinfong.com/2017/02/revealed-see-dangote-spends-billions-fleet-cars-jets-houses-boats-net-worth-pics/" target="_blank">See how Dangote spends his billions : His fleet of cars, Jets, Houses, Boats and net worth (With Pics)</a></span></li> </ul> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>SAM LOCO EFE</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1087.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-51185 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1087.jpg" alt="IMG_1087" width="371" height="327" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">The death of Sam Loco really got the entertainment industry in Nigeria shaking because he was very popular with his comic roles. Loco died in a hotel room in Owerri where he was editing a film, in August 2011, at age 66.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>JUSTICE ESIRI</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1088.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-51186 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1088.jpg" alt="IMG_1088" width="593" height="353" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">The Village Headmaster star actor died in February 2013 at age 70. He died of complications from diabetes in a Lagos hospital.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>ENEBELI ENEBUWA</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1089.jpg"><img class="wp-image-51187 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1089.jpg" alt="IMG_1089" width="532" height="424" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">Enebeli became popular staring as Andrew in a popular TV programme many years ago. He died in an Indian hospital in December 2012. He died of stroke at age 66.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>AMAKA IGWE</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1090.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-51188 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1090.jpg" alt="IMG_1090" width="678" height="383" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">The very popular Nollywood producer died of asthma attack in Enugu, in April 2014. She was the writer and producer of the most popular TV soap ever to be aired in Nigeria, Checkmate. Her sudden demise at age 51 shook Nollywood and the entertainment industry as a whole due to her role in the development of Nollywood and in making stars like Julius Agwu, Bobmanuel Udokwu and so many of them.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>JENIFER OKERE OSSAI</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1091.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-51189 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1091.jpg" alt="IMG_1091" width="540" height="763" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">She was a big star in the 1990s. She had featured in Ikuku, Living in Bondage, True Confession, etc. She died between 1999 and 2000 and her death was the first to shake Nollywood.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>JT TOM WEST</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1092.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-51190 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1092.jpg" alt="IMG_1092" width="545" height="380" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">The River state born actor died in September 2006. Tom-West was involved in a fatal auto-accident, while he was returning from a location after a late night film shooting with two of his colleagues.</span> <span style="color: #000000;">His former girlfriend, Tricia Eseigbe wept so hard that she was uncontrollable as at that time. He was popular with such movies as State of Emergency, Above The Law, Labistar etc.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>GERALDINE EKEOCHA</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1093.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-51191 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1093.jpg" alt="IMG_1093" width="496" height="496" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">The popular actress died in September 2011 during a fibroid operation at age 56.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>PETE ENEH</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1094.png"><img class=" wp-image-51192 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1094.png" alt="IMG_1094" width="617" height="418" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">Pete Eneh died in November 2012 after one of his legs was amputated at age 68.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>BISI KOMOLAFE</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1095.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-51193 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1095.jpg" alt="IMG_1095" width="514" height="514" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">She was a popular Yoruba actress whose sudden demise shook the Yoruba movie industry. She died at age 27 in January 2013.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>FUNMI MARTINS</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1096.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-51194 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1096.jpg" alt="IMG_1096" width="612" height="612" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">Funmi was a cross over actress who featured in both Yoruba and English films. She played a romantic role in When The Sun Set released in the 1990s which was Kate Henshaws first film. Funmi died in May 2002. Her death shook Nollywood then.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>FRANCIS AGU</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1097.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-51195 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1097.jpg" alt="IMG_1097" width="464" height="643" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">Francis became a star via Amaka Igwe’s Checkmate. After which he featured in Living in Bondage, Jezebel produced by his girlfriend then, Emem Isong.</span> <span style="color: #000000;">Francis died in March 2007 after a protracted sickness.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>DAVID IHESIE</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1098.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-51196 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1098.jpg" alt="IMG_1098" width="481" height="481" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">The actor died in January 2012 at age 73.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>CHRISTY ESSIEN IGBOKWE</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1099.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-51197 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1099.jpg" alt="IMG_1099" width="527" height="356" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">Christy Uduak Essien-Igbokwe MFR(11 November 1960 – 30 June 2011) was a Nigerian musician and actress. She was known as Nigeria’s Lady of Songs. She put Nigeria’s name on the world music map with her evergreen “Seun Rere” track. She was the first female president of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria(PMAN).</span> <span style="color: #000000;">She was also the chairman and managing director of Soul Train entertainment limited.Although she was not from the Yoruba tribe, she sang a lot of her songs in the western Nigerian language and drew heavily on their culture and tradition . Essien’s fluency in Yoruba, English, Igbo and her native Ibibio earned her an appeal which cut across tribal lines.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>ASHLEY NWOSU</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1100.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-51198 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1100.jpg" alt="IMG_1100" width="630" height="477" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">The top actor died in April 2011 after a brief illness.<!--nextpage--></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Clem Onyeka</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1101.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-51199 aligncenter" src="http://theinfong.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/IMG_1101.jpg" alt="IMG_1101" width="710" height="340" /></a></span> <span style="color: #000000;">Clem Onyeka was recently killed in a crossfire between the Nigerian Police and armed robbers in Asaba Delta State. 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