Legendary TV Scriptwriter, Charles Owoyemi Is Dead

Charles Owoyemi
 

Veteran Nigerian scriptwriter, Charles Owoyemi, has passed on.

Top filmmakers, Tunji Bamishigbin Esq and Ralph Nwadike announced that Owoyemi died on July 19 after a brief illness.

They said: “Charles, wrote over 50 episodes scripts for the New Village Headmaster between 1984 and 1990 when the programme was rested by NTA.

”He wrote scripts for Second Chance, another NTA network series. He created the powerful network soap opera Fortunes on NTA and co-produced with him and Zeb Ejiro in 1993 to 1995.''