{"id":11060,"date":"2026-11-06T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/just-in-nollywood-actor-diewait-ikpechukwu-dies-at-71\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:45:47","slug":"just-in-nollywood-actor-diewait-ikpechukwu-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/just-in-nollywood-actor-diewait-ikpechukwu-dies-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Just in: Nollywood actor Diewait Ikpechukwu dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"246\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Just-in-Nollywood-actor-Diewait-Ikpechukwu-dies-at-71.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Just in: Nollywood actor Diewait Ikpechukwu dies at 71\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Benjamin Njoku<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veteran Nollywood actor, Diewait Ikpechukwu, is dead. He was aged 71.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ikpechukwu, a former footballer, reportedly died on Thursday after a prolonged illness, according to a family source.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Details surrounding his death were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His death marks another loss to the Nigerian film industry.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/just-in-nollywood-actor-diewait-ikpechukwu-dies-at-71\/\">Just in: Nollywood actor Diewait Ikpechukwu dies at 71<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Benjamin Njoku Veteran Nollywood actor, Diewait Ikpechukwu, is dead. He was aged 71. Ikpechukwu, a former footballer, reportedly died on Thursday after a prolonged illness, according to a family&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}