Osang Abang, a scriptwriter with M-Net, died in a car crash on Thursday night.
The 30-year-old University of Calabar graduate was buried yesterday.
His friend, Uba Franklin, who broke the news on Facebook, described the deceased as “A consummate professional who has left a big void in
the Screenwriting industry”.
Recalling their last moments, Mr Franklin, who is also a screenwriter, wrote, “Last month we were locked up for two weeks by Mnet in a hotel in Ikeja
Osang Abang, a scriptwriter with M-Net, died in a road accident on Thursday night.
Now he is being buried, another car accident casualty in the famous Benin road. It’s really paining me this loss of another brilliant writer. But this is about Osang, let me hold my peace.”
Mourning his death, Iretiola Doyle, an actress, wrote, “All you ever see are the actors but in truth, it takes a small village to put up any type of production; for one the size and scale of #AmTinsel it takes 2.with 12 other brilliant writers. He was a General leading his officers to war as we birthed a new project for Mnet.
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