Veteran television scriptwriter,Charles Owoyemi, is dead.

Top filmmakers, Tunji Bamishigbin Esq and Ralph Nwadike announced that Owoyemi died on July 19 after a brief illness.

They said: Charles wrote over 50 episodes scripts for theNew Village Headmasterbetween 1984 and 1990 when the programme was rested by NTA.

He wrote scripts forSecond Chance, another NTA network series. He created the powerful network soap operaFortuneson NTA and co-produced with him and Zeb Ejiro in 1993 to 1995.

Charles also wrote part ofPalacescripts, the popular AIT soap opera that we produced in 1997 to 1999. He wrote several others and film scripts.

Notable actors and actresses that emerged from his works are Segun Arinze, Liz Benson, Regina Askia, Ramsey Noah, Patrick AttahOkey Bakkasi and many others, they said (The Nation)