Veteran Nollywood actress, Bukky Ajayi is dead. INFORMATION NIGERIA brings 7 things you probably didn’t know about the late actress.
1.She was born a christian but converted to Islam in the early eighties and choose the name Zainab.
2.She got a Federal government scholar in 1959 to study in England.
3.She left England and came back to Nigeria after her education in 1965 and started out working in Nigeria Television as a presentation assistant in 1966.
4.Afterwards,she became a presenter and then a news reader.She presented a couple of children’s programmes and ‘Nigerian’s Sketches’,a programme which was all about Nigerian culture
5.She was later transferred to Port Harcourt and later back to Lagos, and it was at that time she started her acting career.
6.She started with the ‘Village Headmaster’ in the 70’s,and she later got a role in Amaka Igwe’s ‘Checkmate’.
7.She’s Jazzman Olofin’s grandmother-In-law.
