'I only wish you were alive to see this love'

Grief and sorrow filled The Monarch Event Centre in Lekki, Lagos, on Wednesday as Nollywood held a Service of Songs for late actor Alex Ekubo.

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June 13, 2026

….IK Ogbonna, other stars bid Alex Ekubo farewell at emotional Service of Songs

By Benjamin Njoku

Grief and sorrow filled The Monarch Event Centre in Lekki, Lagos, on Wednesday as Nollywood held a Service of Songs for late actor Alex Ekubo.

The all-white event drew who’s who in the Nigerian entertainment industry. Stars stormed the venue to pay last respects to their colleague whose death on May 11, 2026, at age 40, still feels unreal. Family confirmed the late actor died from complications arising from advanced metastatic kidney cancer.