Chief Kanran Misled Nigerians Before He Died – Brother

Nollywood actor Yemi Remi has alleged that his late younger brother, Chief Kanran, misled the public with several exaggerated stories before his death. He recently had his say while speaking on Agbaletu TV, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, many of late Kanran‘s public pleas for help were based on false claims, and he even lied about his age before his death.

Yemi added that his brother was not even sick before he died because he went for a church programme days before his demise and danced throughout the service.

His words, “There was a time a woman called me to mourn my younger brother’s wife’s death and I told her I didn’t know anything about it. She said he sent her an obituary, but I told her it was a lie.

He told some people he was 75… I will be 70 next year. He was 62 — he was born in 1963.

He wasn’t sick. The Friday before he died, he went for a church programme and people said he danced so well.

It was that Friday that they called me to say that he had died… They told me that he slumped in the bathroom. Before they could get to the hospital, he had died.”

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.