Filmmaker, Charles Novia, has announced the death of his mother, Clara Osayuware Uwaifo.

According to her famous son, Mrs Uwaifo passed on in the early hours of Monday.

she was aged 87 years.

In a Facebook message on Monday, Charles wrote: “The fond memories of a matriarch who begat me and other great men and women will never leave me.

Rest, my mother. Rest.”