The biological household of gradual Nollywood actor Alexx Ikenna Ekubo has issued an announcement raising severe concerns over the circumstances surrounding his death revealing they had been no longer suggested of his passing, had been denied acquire entry to to his body, and are yet to receive answers on how and why he died.

Ekubo died on Could maybe 11, 2026, at Evercare Health center in Lagos on the age of 40. His household confirmed he handed some distance from complications coming up from developed metastatic kidney cancer, a analysis he had saved fully interior most.

Shut affiliate and filmmaker Stanley Ontop later printed that Ekubo had battled the illness since 2024, underwent a transplant, temporarily returned to work, but deteriorated when the transplanted organ failed. His closing Instagram post had been in December 2024, weeks of public silence that fans now sign in a thoroughly different procedure.

He used to be buried on June 18 in his fatherland of Arochukwu, Abia Speak, drawing several Nollywood figures in conjunction with Ini Edo, Ayo Makun, and IK Ogbonna. But within the support of the final public tributes, his biological household teach they’ve been left within the unnecessary of night.

In an announcement posted on the Instagram page of his brother David Ekubo, the household printed they had been no longer suggested of his passing on Could maybe 11. They additionally mentioned the household member who formally got his body from the mortuary used to be denied the probability to behold it, and that they didn’t approve the carrying of white at what they described as “a occasion of existence for a 40-year-extinct whose existence used to be with out notice lower fast.”

Most troublingly, the household mentioned that Ekubo’s simplest biological sibling, his sister @omaalex3, and his biological mother, both alive and successfully private yet to be formally updated on the circumstances of his death.

“The Ekubo household are yet to receive answers on how and why Alex handed away with out notice,” the observation read. “With grave anguish, heaviness and sorrow; the household of Ikenna Alex Ekubo advises the final public that the events main as much as his passing had been unclear.”

No loyal response has been issued by any occasion named within the observation as of the time of filing.