Production company(s) Moving Movies | Original language(s) English Original network NTA Language English | |
Network Nigerian Television Authority Similar The Village Headmaster, Basi and Company, New Masquerade, Tinsel | ||
Checkmate is a Nigerian television series that ran in the late 1980s through the early 1990s.
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It starred Richard Mofe Damijo, and Francis Agu, among others. It was created by Amaka Igwe.
Nigerian soap opera clip checkmate
Cast
The show featured an illustruous roster, which included:
Legacy
It has been called part of the "Golden age of television in Nigeria", prior to the Nollywood home-video boom of the mid-1990s. A show, called Fuji House of Commotion, was later spun off featuring some of the characters such as Chief Fuji.
References
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