For the second time in less than three weeks, the Nigerian Movie Industry, Nollywood, has lost one of its versatile and dynamic Actor in person of Amaechi Muonagor.
The Late Actor has been bedridden for several months, and was last week soliciting for financial support from well meaning Nigerians.
Prior to his death, he suffered kidney failure and was on dialysis.

The news of his demise came just few days after a viral video in which fellow actor, Kingsley Orji, solicited for funds to help him undergo Kidney transplant in India.

Speaking via his Instagram account on Sunday, he disclosed that Amaechi Mounagor left the hospital due to financial constraints.

Orji who spoke in both Igbo and English said: “It has not been easy. He has been in this condition for months now. He wants to go for a kidney transplant. What we want is for you to help us for him to travel to India.

“He just came back from the ICU in Nnewi Teaching Hospital a couple of days ago. He was responding to treatment but not very well.

“ We decided to bring him home because there was no money but it is not advisable. He barely talks well. Please, he needs your help.”

The death of Muonagor is coming less than three weeks after the demise of another thespian, John Okafor, popularly known as Mr Ibu.

The Muonagor was born in Obosi, a village in Idemili North, Anambra State. He attended St. Mary’s Primary School, Obosi, Oraifite Grammar School before he furthered his education at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN,where he studied economics and graduated in 1987.

In 1989 after his youth service, Amaechi started working for NAN (News Agency of Nigeria). He left his job a few years later for an acting role in his first movie as Akunatakasi in Taboo 1, a Nigerian movie.

He was among other Nollywood stars like Chinyere Winifred, Ebere Okaro, joined Dr Chris Eke of Word and Spirit Assembly, Ijegun Lagos as he marked his 40th birthday back in 2015, celebrating it with Kirikiri Maximum Prison inmates as well as children at the Hearts of Gold Children’s Hospice orphanage home.He died after a long battle with kidney failure on March 24, 2024.

In 2020, he said sexual harassment is not peculiar to Nollywood as it happens in every profession.

In 2016, there were numerous publications on websites that claimed Amaechi was very ill and suffering from diabetes. Since then, Amaechi hasn’t appeared or featured in any movie. There have been rumours about him leaving the movie industry.