The entertainment industry has lost another professional to the cold
hands of death as the Head of Programming at EbonyLife TV, Pamela Ofoegbu,
passed on.
The deceased, who had also worked as the commissioning editor for Africa
at MNet, was said to be very creative in the handling of programmes.
Although her family had yet to release a statement on the incident as of
Tuesday evening, an online report indicated that the cause of the death was
cancer-related.
This would thus bring to the fore the fear that cancer has become one of
the most notorious killers in the country.
This year, several prominent Nigerians, including billionaire Alhaji
Azeez Arisekola Alao; former Director-General of NAFDAC, Professor Dora
Akunyili; former Director-General of the News Agency of Nigeria, Mrs. Remi Oyo;
and the Chairman of IGI Insurance, Mr. Remi Olowude, died of cancer.
According to Ofoegbu’s profile on EbonyLife TV website, her key
responsibility was to drive all programming for effectiveness, quality,
velocity and results.
With all genres of programming reporting to her, she was in charge of
generating and supervising the production of original programming, as well as
recommending the very best content for the channel from external producers.
With over 10 years experience in the television industry, she played a
major role in the production of multiple award-winning programmes that cut
across all genres. Pam is an energetic, dynamic and passionate visionary.
A glance through Ofoegbu’s Twitter account, however, revealed that she
had passionate and philosophical views about values such as love, creativity
and humanity in general.
Although there was an indication that she might not have been active on
the platform in the past two years, one of her tweets read, “If we all threw our
problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back”; “It’s never
too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one
else”; “Be original, be creative, be you”; “What’s gonna be gonna be”; “Don’t
complain about what you allow” and “One day at a time.”
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