Nollywood’s foremost producer, writer, director Amaka Igwe has passed on at age 51.
She died after complications from an asthma attack on Monday night, April 28, 2014 in Enugu where she was with her husband, Charles Igwe, for pre-production preparations for a new Igbo soap.
She suffered an asthma attack and was rushed to the hospital but sadly she died before getting there.
Ibinabo Fiberesima, the President of the Actor’s Guild of Nigeria (AGN), confirmed the news.
Igwe leaves behind her husband and three children.
Igwe is the founder of Best of the Best Television Expo (BoBTV), founder and CEO of Top Radio 90.9FM, Amaka Igwe Studios, and the newly-launched Q Entertainment Networks.
She came into the limelight with the award-winning TV soap ‘Checkmate’ and its off shoot ‘Fuji House of Commotion’, which she wrote and produced.
Her Nollywood projects include RattleSnake and Violated – two critically-acclaimed movies that set apart Amaka Igwe Studios in the much-criticised Nollywood industry.
Amaka 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.
She had hundreds of award-winning home videos to her credit.
May her soul rest in peace.
