Premium Times reports that veteran Yoruba actor Lere Paimo has challenged Pete Edochie’s account of seniority, saying he began acting professionally four years earlier.
The disagreement is about career chronology and status within Nigeria’s long-running screen and theatre traditions rather than a new film release.
Premium Times’ Nollywood archive repeats the report under the line “I started acting four years before Pete Edochie,” while the outlet’s main entertainment index lists the same development among its latest arts stories.
Echotitbits take: Seniority disputes in Nollywood often reflect the industry’s overlapping stage, television and film histories. The strongest way to settle the chronology is through dated production records and contemporaneous credits rather than recollection alone.
Source: Premium Times — https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/nollywood/909729-i-started-acting-four-years-before-pete-edochie-lere-paimo-counters-actors-seniority-claim.html, September 15, 2026
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