This
is beginning to look like a not too pleasant year for Nigerian
Entertainers as we're still mourning the passing away of Goldie, another
movie icon, Justus Esiri, has died. According to different sources and
his son's confessions, Justus Esiri's family lost him to diabetes caused
by old age.
He
was said to have passed on about 3 hours ago in a Lagos hospital. A
source said the now late Justus Esiri has been secretly battling
diabetes for a while but his family chose to make it a secret until his
sudden demise Monday night at the age of 71.
Last
year over four top Nollywood stars including Pete Eneh and Enebeli
Elebuwa died. Pete Eneh died of untreated leg infection on November 15,
2012 at a private hospital in Enugu while Enebeli Elebuwa died of stroke
on the 4th of December 2012 at a private hospital in New Delhi, India.
Just this last week two Nollywood actors died tragically.
A
source who claimed the angel of death has visited Nollywood might be
proven true with the sudden demise of top Nigerian movie stars one after
the other within the past 12 months.
Before
his death, Justus Esiri was a member of the Order of Niger (MON). He
came into limelight in the early 80's through the popular Village
Headmaster TV series. He has also featured in many interesting Nollywood
movies. He also attended Prof. Weners Institute of Engineering, West
Berlin, 1967 and the Ahrens School of Performing Arts in 1968. Justus
Esiri, detoured into motion picture production in 1968 as a staff of the
Schiller Theater, Berlin, Germany, where he stayed till 1976. During
the 1977 FESTAC held in Lagos, he choreographed the Modern Dress
exhibition.
Esiri:
"I am an urhobo man, come from an African aristocratic family. My
forebears were educated. My great grand-father could speak English at
least. Throughout my whole life God has been very nice to me. "
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