Veteran Nollywood filmmaker, Chico Ejiro is dead.
The filmmaker reportedly concluded directing his new movie on Christmas Eve before he died in the early hours of Christmas day from a seizure.
His remains have been deposited at the morgue.
The filmmaker is the younger brother of veteran filmmaker, Zeb Ejiro. He is married to Joy Ejiro and they have four children.
Born Chico Maziakpono in Isoko, Delta State, Ejiro is a movie director, screenwriter, and producer best known for directing the “Silent Night”, the movie that gave Segun Arinze his alias “Black Arrow’.
Prior to his death, he held the record of the Nollywood director with the highest number of released movies. He says he has produced and directed over 85 movies in his career in the span of three decades.
Ejiro who studied Agriculture in school was drawn into video production because Nigerians would not buy blank video cassettes.
