{"id":26943,"date":"2024-04-13T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/junior-pope-its-not-a-nollywood-disaster-people-die-every-week-actor-ugezu\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T08:00:19","slug":"junior-pope-its-not-a-nollywood-disaster-people-die-every-week-actor-ugezu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/junior-pope-its-not-a-nollywood-disaster-people-die-every-week-actor-ugezu\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Pope: \u2018It\u2019s not a Nollywood disaster, people die every week\u2019 \u2013 Actor Ugezu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Veteran actor and filmmaker, Ugezu Ugezu has reacted to the level of deaths rocking the Nigerian movie industry.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that some fans are suggesting that Nollywood may be under a siege after over five actors, including Mr Ibu, Amaechi Muonagor, Sisi Quadri, Adejumoke Aderounmu, and the latest Junior Pope died within the first quarter of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting via his Instagram page, Ugezu said it isn\u2019t a Nollywood disaster as many alluded, explaining that people in other professions also die every week.<\/p>\n<p>He said the difference is that the death of movie stars are publicised, stressing that the death surge in the country is due to \u201csystematic destruction of the health sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ugezu wrote, \u201cIf only you knew how many bankers who kpai every week\u2026if only you knew how many police officers who kpai every month\u2026if only you knew how many pastors\/priests who kpai every month\u2026if only we have a clear data on citizens that kpai monthly, we may settle down and understand the systematic destruction of the health sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntertainers are domiciled publicly and theirs go viral always. Time has come to expunge spiritualism from clear system failure. It is not just a Nollywood disaster like many allude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a general system disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Junior Pope: \u2018It\u2019s not a Nollywood disaster, people die every week\u2019 \u2013 Actor Ugezu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran actor and filmmaker, Ugezu Ugezu has reacted to the level of deaths rocking the Nigerian movie industry. DAILY POST&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13693,15,13820],"tags":[171,13694,180,9734,13821],"class_list":["post-26943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-junior-pope","category-news","category-ugezu","tag-entertainment","tag-junior","tag-news","tag-pope","tag-ugezu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}