Information reaching TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) has it that renowned Nollywood filmmaker, producer and director, Chico Ejiro is dead.
Born Chico Maziakpono in Isoko, Delta State, Ejiro is a movie director, screenwriter, and producer.
Ejiro originally studied agriculture, and he was drawn into video production because Nigerians would not buy blank video cassettes.
The sad news of Ejiro’s death came out on Christmas Day but not much detail is known about the cause of the death of the veteran filmmaker.
According to close family sources, Ejiro died on Christmas morning in Lagos State.
Ejiro is married to Joy Ejiro and they have four children.
He has two brothers: Zeb Ejiro, the best-known of the new Nigerian cinema auteurs outside of the country, and Peter Red Ejiro, also a movie producer.
Details shortly…