Tuesday September 8, 2009.

I am alone in the office and trying to post a new topic on Nairaland and listening to the sweet voice of Adaure Achumba as she is presenting the Hot Lens news report on STV, my favourite Nigerian TV station. I am proud of the founder and Chairman of STV, my fellow old boy Ben Bruce, for his laudable achievements in the entertainment industry in Nigeria. He has built a magnificent new office in the federal capital of Abuja and this is largest complex in West Africa. Ben, watch out, because another ex-Gregorian is going to build another magnificent edifice for entertainment in Africa. I prefer to locate it in Lekki, Lagos.

Madu, the CEO of the Lagos International Film Festival came to our office yesterday. He came to see his friend Hope, the Publisher of Supple magazine and spent hours before he left. Hope said Madu mentioned about the rubbish someone wrote about the last edition of his film festival and in fact did not know that I was the one who wrote the topic on Two Thumbs Down for the Lagos International Film Festival and I advised Hope not to discuss our own Eko International Film Festival with him. Later Madu’s fair, pretty and courteous secretary came to join us in the office whilst he and Hope were having drink at the nearby restaurant opposite the Mr. Biggs on Bajulaiye Street. I have always been the perfect gentleman to his secretary and she was relaxed as she sat down watching TV and I was posting my report of the transition of Gani Fawehinmi, the great Nigerian civil rights lawyer and human rights activist for my news blog, Nigerians Report. I glanced at her now and then and wondering if she has not thought of becoming an actress since she has the looks of a beautiful actress and working for a top player in Nollywood. She is even looking sexier than Mercy Johnson and Genevieve Nnaji. I admired her until her boss and Hope returned. Later we discussed Nduka Obaigbena’s chic magazine Arise, the best magazine published by a Nigerian and Hope concurred and said that he could do more if he has the millions of dollars like Nduka. I assured him that his Supple magazine will become the most popular Nigerian magazine within three years and I meant it. Supple is already the most accepted Nigerian magazine on international film festivals within only a year of its publication and was the only news media invited by the French Consulate in Lagos when the honourable noble members of the French senate visited Nigeria last week.

I turned my attention on the letters of proposal on the launch of our Startup Weekend Nigeria and other priorities in the office whilst Hope and Madu were busy meeting with a printer nearby to contract him to print the next edition of Madu’s Movie Africa magazine with the Nollywood star Desmond Elliot on the cover. Madu is one of the big players in Nollywood and I respect him. Whatever I have said about his Lagos International Film Festival is to challenge him to excel and not to fail. We are all stakeholders who are committed to the advancement of the Nigerian film industry. I have criticized every key person in Nollywood, including my fellow producers and actors since I stopped acting in 1996 and chose to focus on productions and publications. Being the founder and Festival Director of the new Eko International Film Festival is a great leap in the right direction for me. Hope has secured the trademark for it and is walking tall as the co-founder and President. We have agreed to make Dejumo Lewis the Secretary-General of Eko International Film Festival and I have also noted the inclusion of Prince Jide Kosoko in the Organizing Committee.

Then later I called Grace Bernard our official photographer and she said she would not be able to come to the office as we expected her, because she was delayed at the place she had gone to. I called my Sweetest, who is upset that we have not seen each other for over a year and I promised to see her before the end of this month. Presently, the publication of three of my books is my top priority and seeing Karen King-Aribisala again after five years did more for my spirit than any other relationship. She is a literary genius who appreciates literature as the big picture of the culture of human nature in our cosmopolitan universe. She said writing is like falling in love.

This is sweet,eloquent and uncomplicated.U sound like an xperienced fellow.Keep it coming.

OnoEdosio,
Thank you for reading and encouraging me.
I am learning everyday.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
~ Montaigne (1533-1592)

Friday September 11, 2009.

I am in the office with Grace Bernard, Tony the young Nigerian model on the billboards of BAT in the UK with his friend who is working on Tony’s laptop and Martins a young graduate of Physics who is here to assist Supple magazine. I want to help Tony sell a product on eBay and Grace is busy on her laptop editing the photograph for the cover of the next edition of Supple magazine. It is a rainy and sunny day. It has rained for a while and then it stopped for a while and more showers fell for about half and hour and now the sun is shining.
I am missing QMC and feeling it in my heart, soul and spirit.

Love your flow:makes one continue reading.What is QMC?

Still looking out for ur next post.Would u be attending the gardencity literary festival?[color=][/color][color=][/color]

Wednesday September 30, 2009.

I am in the office with Martins, one of our newly employed advertising executives for Supple magazine. He is relaxing watching the TV while I am online updating My Supple Dairies on Nairaland.

Grace Bernard has gone out with Hope. He is making an ID card for the acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chimamannda Ngozi Adichie who is now a member of the exclusive gym at the Southern Sun Ikoyi Hotel. Chima has been visiting Lagos regularly these days and now has a cozy place in Ikoyi.

Peace, the PA of Madu, the CEO of Lagos International Film Festival came to the office and said she was on her way to see the printers of the latest edition of Madu’s Movie Africa magazine with the handsome Nollywood hunk Desmond Elliot on the cover. Peace was looking really pretty and sexy today. She teased that I should escort her home and I told her that it would be better when I would be able to rent a car to take us there.
“That would be when? I am coming back on Friday to collect the printed and bound copies of our magazine, “ she said.
“Friday is okay,” I said.

We have secured a major Italian partner and a major patron in Germany for Eko International Film Festival. We already have the cooperation and support of our French partners. We are going to make a formal presentation to the reigning monarch of Lagos in October and members of the Organizing Committee are being short listed. I have drafted the Constitution. The rules and regulation for the submission and accreditation will follow soon. The Art Director of Supple magazine has designed the logo. I appointed the Publisher of Supple magazine as the President of Eko International Film Festival and his Supple Communications will manage Ekofest for the next four years. I also made him the Managing Director of Startup Weekend Nigeria, but if he does not perform well, I will appoint a new MD.

We look forward to making the official public announcement on Eko International Film Festival in October and the international publicity will commence without delay.

I have postponed the first ever Startup Weekend in Nigeria and informed my American partners who agreed with me. What the postponement did was to expose the opportunists who only came to join Startup Weekend Nigeria for their get-rich-quick schemes and they thought my American partners would have sent me thousands of dollars. I do not need these desperate Nigerians on my board.


I have three books awaiting publication and I intend to concentrate on them. Yesterday, I met my long time buddy Dabyna Abraham, the leading local rock guitarist and performer at the Falomo Shopping Complex after I collected nine copies of my book Bye Bye Mugabe from Glendora Bookshop. I gave Dabyna a complimentary copy, but he insisted on paying for it and asked me to autograph it for him. I have always loved the humility and integrity of Dabyna who studied engineering and once came on stage to assist me fix the sound system at the world premiere of my Sleepless Night at Maison de France, the French Cultural Centre in Ikoyi, Lagos. And later at the same Maison de France, his rock band played for my performance of Darego, the rock song I composed in honour of Darego Agbani of Nigeria for winning the Miss World Beauty Pageant.

I have not seen my Sweetest since August 2008 and I am missing her in a way that words alone cannot describe. I call her often and send her chocolates and other things whenever I have the money. Hope warned me that I must remain faithful her even while I am in America on book tours. I have given 70% of the royalty from my Scarlet Tears of London to her. She deserves it. I love my Queen and I am very proud of her.

Saturday October 24, 2009.

Here I am on Nairaland and quite impressed to see that the new short stories seem to be the best short stories written by members of the largest Nigerian forum since I joined in 2005. But I do not have enough time to sit back and read them all.

QMC sent me a text message that thieves stole her wallet with the cash and ATM cards in it. I told her not to worry and to beware of everybody. God has granted me the grace to comfort my beloved Queen. I love her.

Grace Bernard is in Akure to cover a wedding and I am missing her beautiful smiles and dimples. But I made her cry earlier in the week, because I misunderstood her. She ran into the toilet and shut the door to hide her tears from me. I called her name and declared my apologies. She later came out and we made up. She is so adorable.

Our debtors paid us lump sums of money and Hope was glad and grateful to God.
God is ever faithful, merciful and truthful. I love Him. Hope is getting a new Toyota jeep before Christmas. I need a 2008 Honda Accord car. I love this car! Gosh!

Linda Ikeji sent me the invitation to the fifth edition of her Style Night and I have sent bulk text messages to many people to help her sell more tickets.
The details are posted on her popular blog. Linda rocks 24/7!

I am happy that I have signed a contract with my American editor Pamela, for my book on the first African-American President of America. The book has been delayed for over a year. I thank God that she can start the editing without delay. She recommended some agents and publishers for the book.

Hope loaded his Visa to pay our Italian partners for the web design of the official website of our Eko International Film Festival and for the design of the Supple magazine website. I got the first patron for our film festival. He is an African Prince in Germany.

Our hands are full, because we have so many jobs to do and making more money while many Nigerian banks are still in troubled waters and thousands are going to lose their jobs in a country of over 20 million unemployed youths in search of ways of escape and how to survive in the most populous country in Africa. I am praying for them.

Sunday October 25, 2009.

Linda Ikeji's fifth Style Night was colourful and wonderful with a bevy of pretty babes and hunks at the posh Jade Palace on Adeola Odeku Street on Victoria Island in Lagos. I came to the red carpet event with Hope and Tony, one of the new hunks among Nigerian male models. I was simply dressed in a brown kaftan and faded blue jeans with my leather boots. I sat beside Peks, the only brother of the hostess whilst her father my namesake sat nearby. Only Edna, one of her younger sisters came to the show and she was looking beautiful that Hope was attracted to her. Her elder sister could not come, because she was far away in Texas where she lives with her American husband.

Modela was the best fashion designer at the event and Diamonds thrilled us with two songs from their yet to be released CD of Hip-hop singles.

I was impressed and I thanked God for Linda Ikeji.
I congratulated her.
"I am proud of you," I said in a text message I sent to her before I went to bed last night. We spoke in the morning and discussed the event. She said she is considering doing a trade show in December and I told her to go ahead.

Saturday November 7, 2009.

Hope and I went to the National Theatre in Iganmu to see The Fabulous Adventures of the Sugarcane Man, Prof. Femi Osofisan's English adaptation of Fagunwa’s classic Ireke Onibudo. The performance was great in music, choreography and dialogue. The narrators were impressive.

The play was sponsored by the management of Chams Plc in their Chams Theatre Series started to revive the appreciation of the perfromance of Nigerian plays.

Mr. Demola Aladekomo, the MD of Chams is a noble man.
He said the Chams Theatre Series "is also a means of promoting our culture and re-orienting Nigerians to the values that we hold dear”.

The hall was full and the audience really appreciated the performance.

Saturday November 7,2009.

I went to the National Theatre in Iganmu on Saturday November 7, 2009, to see The Fabulous Adventures of the Sugarcane Man, Prof. Femi Osofisan's English adaptation of Daniel O. Fagunwa's Yrouba classic Ireke Onibudo. The performance was great in music, choreography and dialogue. The narrators were impressive. The play was sponsored by the management of Chams Plc in their Chams Theatre Series started to revive the appreciation of the perfromance of Nigerian plays.

Mr. Demola Aladekomo, the MD of Chams is a noble man. He said the Chams Theatre Series "is also a means of promoting our culture and re-orienting Nigerians to the values that we hold dear”.

The hall was full and the audience really appreciated the performance.

November 18, 2009.

We have employed a new receptionist for Supple magazine and she is a young, brilliant and well bred Moslem from Kogi state. Aisha wants to be an accountant and needs this job to earn some money she can save for her college education. I interviewed about six young women including Aisha and I recommended her to the Publisher and Managing Director, who agreed with me.

I would have loved to employ most of the young women who wanted jobs, but we have only one vacant position. But we are going to employ many people when we commence preparations for the first edition of Eko International Film Festival in January, 2010. I have made Hope Opara, the President/Co-Founder of the film festival and I remain the Founder/Festival Director. I got an Italian partner who is also in charge of the design of the website for only two thousand dollars and the Almighty God gave us our first Patron, the Chairman of the African Council for Arts and Culture in Cologne, Germany. He has included me in his network in the German-Nigerian Film Forum and agreed to sponsor my first feature film Naked Beauty next year. The screenplay was co-written with Chika Onu, the outstanding Nollywood Director of Living in Bondage 2, Glamour Girls, Peacemaker and other best selling movies. The film will be shot on location in the village Agaja on Bonny Island, Rivers state. I am going to hire a French Director to assist us in the production.

Hope will leave for France next week for the 31st Festival of 3 Continents in Nantes and for a meeting with our Italian partner.

My friend in Australia, Father Dave has invited one of my most reliable friends in Nigeria, Olu to work in Australia. Olu is the author of The Rwandan Report for Nigerians Report, the introduction of the report was posted first on Nairaland.

I am glad and grateful for the awesome favours of God in my life and the life of Hope.
God is doing great things for us, for the benefit of Nigeria and the rest of the world. To Him alone belongs all the glory, honour and power.
I love Him, heart, soul and spirit.

@ Orikinla,
I'm still hoping I could be a contributing writer to Supple magazine. I'll be in not for the money.I just want this 2 get off my block.

nanaboi:

@ Orikinla,
I'm still hoping I could be a contributing writer to Supple magazine. I'll be in not for the money.I just want this 2 get off my block.

Please, contact the Publisher at supplemagazine@yahoo.co.uk

*Makes for interesting reading*

Tuesday November 24, 2009.

We went to the AMP/Eko International Film Festival at the National Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos. It was the unveiling of Eko International Film Festival coming up next summer after we resolved the dispute over the ownership last Saturda, It was a great event as shown by the cooperation and support given to Paul Obazele, the visionary President of the Association of Movie Producers (AMP). He invited his pastor, Apostle Anselm Madubuko, a renowned deliverance minister who is the Pastor & Founder of The Revival Assembly in Nigeria. The pastor led a deliverance prayer for all the stakeholders in the Nigerian film industry. Segun Arinze, Chidi Mokeme, Zack Orji and other notable members of AMP joined their President to kneel down in total submission to the Almighty God. I was also on my knees with my hands lifted up. Lagos state governor Babatunde Fashola, SAN, was represented by Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi, The Honourable Commissioner for Lagos State Ministry for Tourism & Inter-Governmental Relations who addressed very important issues on Nollywood and tourism. Paul Obazele lamented the terrible crimes piracy of movies at the Alaba International Market and asked the state government to sack the pirates at Alaba.

It was a colourful event and many people came to our Eko International Film Festival booth beside the booth of M-Net DStv where the handsome Dapo and very pretty Uche were. I chatted with Uche and got her cell phone number. I told her that I would compose a poem on her exotic eyes. We gave out many copies of Supple magazine gratis. I had time to say hello to Chidi Mokeme whom I have not seen for over ten years. AMP provided free medical check up for Blood pressure (BP) and breast cancer.

The event continues till Friday.
You are invited to join us.

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