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Entertainment of Wednesday, 8 July 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

BREAKING: Veteran actor Jimmy Johnson of Village Headmaster is dead

A scene from Village Headmaster A scene from Village Headmaster

Veteran actor, Jimmy Johnson popularly known as Okoro in the NTA TV series ‘The Village Headmaster’, is dead.

Jimmy Johnson died at the age of 80 at the Garki Hospital, Abuja, following a brief illness.

The Village Headmaster is a Nigerian television drama series created by Olusegun Olusola, produced by Chief Dejumo Lewis. The drama series was Nigeria’s longest-running television soap opera showed on Nigerian oldest television channel, NTA from 1968 to 1988.

The drama stars Justus Esiri and Femi Robinson. The television series was developed by Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation and came to be considered among the early successes of television drama series. - Wikipedia