BON awards to honour filmmaker Chico Ejiro with achievement award

The veteran Nollywood filmmaker passed on in December 2020.

Organizers of the Best of Nollywood (BON) awards are set to honour late Nollywood filmmaker, Chico Ejiro with a special recognition award.

According to reports, the filmmaker will be honoured alongside actress Abiola Atanda popularly known as Madam Kofo at the awards ceremony slated for December 11, 2021.

"This special recognition even though posthumous struck the team the most because we would have loved that he was alive to receive the award himself,” BON Awards founder Seun Oloketuyi revealed in a statement.

“Many in Nollywood owe their careers and success to Chico and even though we are sad to have lost him, this award is to help people remember his enormous contribution to the industry.”

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On Atanda, he said: "Madam Kofo is a veteran who has quietly worked on putting Nollywood on the map of world industries for more than five decades.

“A thespian with both stage and screen presence, Madam Kofo worked with the likes of the late Hubert Ogunde and is today still relevant. Such a woman deserves all the accolades we can give her."

With over 100 titles to his credit, Chico Ejiro is regarded as one of the most successful filmmakers of the 90s and early 2000s. Nicknamed Mr. Prolific, the film director died on December 25, 2020. He was reportedly working on a film before his shocking demise.