Fateemah Yusuf Reporting
Famous Nollywood director and editor Dimeji Ajibola is dead.
Ajibola is said to have died in the early hours of November 3, 2024, after a battle with an undisclosed illness.
Confirming the news, actor Bolanle Ninalowo, in a captioned photo on Instagram, wrote: “I love you, brother, and I miss you, Dimeji Ajibola. May God heal your family and loved ones. Till we meet again, didi dox, rest on the champ.”
The deceased was the director of a 2023 Nigerian blockbuster series, ‘Shanty Town,’ and also the brain behind ‘Hoodrush,’ a 2012 urban musical film that won multiple awards, including Best Movie at the 2012 Green Me Film Festival in Germany, among others.