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Checkmate (Nigerian TV series)

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Country of origin
  
Production company(s)
  
Moving Movies

Created by
  
Original language(s)
  
English

Original network
  
NTA

Language
  
English

Network
  
Nigerian Television Authority

Similar
  
The Village Headmaster, Basi and Company, New Masquerade, Tinsel

Checkmate the series


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:

  • Ego Boyo (formerly Nnamani) as Ann Haastrup
  • Richard Mofe Damijo as Şegun Kadiri
  • Bob-Manuel Udokwu as Richard Haastrup
  • Kunle Bamtefa as Chief Fuji, a polygamous chief
  • Francis Agu as Benibo 'Benny' Haastrup
  • Mildred Iweka as Ada, Nduka's wife
  • Norbert Young as Professor Okon, a UNILAG academic
  • Bimbo Odulaja as Nduka
  • 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

    Checkmate (Nigerian TV series) Wikipedia