M-Net Scriptwriter, Osang Abang Dies In Auto Crash At The Age of 30

Osang Abang, one of the top scriptwriters in M-Net, has been pronounced dead. 

The 30-year old University of Calabar graduate, who worked with M-Net, passed away in a bus accident, last Thursday night, and was buried today. 

Until his demise, Abang was co-writing content for Tinsel, a popular Nigerian soap opera and he was also the head writer of the series, BattleGround. Other projects he worked on includes ‘Forbidden’, ‘Hush’, ‘Hustle’, ‘Jemeji’, ‘E.V.E’, and ‘Ajoche’. 

Mourning his death, Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi wrote, ‘Thank you for soooooo many dramatic twists in all the Africa Magic TV shows(Tinsel, Hush, Battleground and more) R.I.P. Osang Abang, we must not question God but this one is too painful!! Nigeria just lost another..’