Veteran Filmmaker, Eddie Ugbomah, has passed away. The veteran filmmaker died in the afternoon on Saturday at the hospital where he was scheduled to undergo surgery on Monday.

The death of the filmmaker was announced by Shaibu Husseini, the spokesperson of the Chief Eddie Ugbomah Medical Fund Committee

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The filmmaker 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.