NOLLYWOOD ACTRESS ETHEL ADEREMI, NEE EKPE DIES OF CANCER.

Ethel Ekpe, a Nigerian actress best known for her role as Segi in the sitcom Basi and Company, which aired on Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) between 1986 and 1990, has passed away.

According to the post made by the Director General of the Nigerian Film and Video Censors Board, Dr. Shaibu Hisseini, Ethel Aderemi nee Ekpe, the screen beauty who delighted fans with her inimitable interpretation of the role of Segi in the defunct sitcom on Nigerian Television Authority by Ken Saro Wiwa titled ‘Basi and Company’ has passed on.

According to him, the actress and later day Pastor and star of Amaka Igwe’s ‘Forever’ and most recently ‘Sons of the Caliphate” reportedly died of Cancer in Lagos.

She will be sorely missed. My family will particularly miss her because we named my second daughter Ethel, after her. Good night good woman! He said.