{"id":234980,"date":"2025-08-25T16:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/bbnaija-peres-friend-commits-suicide\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:37:59","slug":"bbnaija-peres-friend-commits-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/bbnaija-peres-friend-commits-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"BBNaija Pere\u2019s Friend Commits Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<h2>Big Brother Naija star cum Nollywood actor, <strong>Pere Egbi<\/strong>, has expressed sadness over the demise of his friend.<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong>Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that Pere, in a post via \ud835\udd4f on Monday, revealed that the tragic loss was a result of relentless online bullying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although the media personality did not give specific details about the tragedy, he stated that the incident occurred on Monday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3 ai-track\" data-ai=\"WzMsMCwiSXNhYWMiLCIiLDRd\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd3GiRw0g6bOS3kAtHb1Yhc5Jic6iTkM9pA5DhIB13uZgDpGQ\/viewform?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=102633326415294296882\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1026109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naijanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-08-09-at-16.23.48.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He said, <em>\u201cI lost a friend today due to online bullying. Committed suicide. Smh. RIP champ. It is well.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pere Egbi<strong> recently shared his thoughts on the state of film production in Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><strong>Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that the actor, in a post on Twitter, pointed out that South Africa currently has an edge over Nollywood in areas such as storytelling, filmmaking, and work ethics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former Big Brother Naija housemate disclosed that while Nollywood has continued to grow and gain global attention, South Africa has made noticeable progress in production quality and industry standards.<\/p>\n<p>Egbi stressed the importance of partnership between the two industries, saying that collaboration would help strengthen African cinema on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: <em>\u201cNo offense to my Nollywood colleagues but you see South Africa, they are ahead of us o when it comes to film production, story telling, film making, work ethics, name it. They are ahead. We need to collaborate!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 --><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span class=\"copyright\"><strong>\u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of  Tee Global Innnovations  [abiaradios@gmail.com].  [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Brother Naija star cum Nollywood actor, Pere Egbi, has expressed sadness over the demise of his friend. Abia Radio News reports that Pere, in a post via \ud835\udd4f on Monday, revealed that the tragic loss was a result of relentless online bullying. Although the media personality did not give specific details about the tragedy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":234981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1757,1758],"class_list":["post-234980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bbnaija-pere","tag-pere"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pere-1-1000x600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}