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My cousin made me meet him once . He use to work there, he took me back stage, where I saw the man. He had gap in his teeth , that was all I remember of him.

Most of them were not doing film. Nollywood is about nigeria film industry, not about television. or stage production. It is film we are talking about. Ogunde is the one responsible for it. Film in nigeria those days had only one name ogunde. Even in the North where they did not speak or understand yoruba. His film was there, because it was the only nigeria film out there. They had no choice , it was either they watch hidu film or Ogunde film.

Baba sale later came to film. He did mostly television.  Ishola ogunsola came after him. I show pepper. Ade love  The other option those was bruce lee.

Warri , abeokuta and Oyo town is more populated than Bayelsa state. This is what satellite pictures show. So the need for change.

He was the one , who founder Nollywood. He even went ahead to build a film studio in ogun state. every other person you name came after him or only did television. He was the film industry in Nigeria at the time. The other type of films nigerian had option to were india or china film. Can you imagine black man going to cinema to watch india film. He had film like aiye.


The others did television.
is Jab abu still alive.?

First of Us if I become the president of nigeria, the first thing, I would ban is transfer of police. And you see the electoral member, INEC over here are members of the party.
What they do is that PDP present 2 , AC present 2 , ANPP present 2  etc. They are the only who conduct the election in each area.

But how can Jonathan present INEC chairman. What they have done is each party present 2 members each at lease the five party that lead last election. making 10 members and the 10 members vote and pick INEC chairman, this is how they do democracy over here.
Now PDP or Jonathan has pick those to conduct his own election. So how can that be fair election.

Saddam Hussein also did the same with the Bath party. But remember the USA army hang or killed Saddam Hussein. Watch the video of the so call "democratically elected president of Iraq"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JUL-l6ov10&feature=related  The PDP has developed its self like the Bath party and would likely end like the Bath party.

It is just a matter of time, we would find a govt from the west to save nigerian from the hand of this people.

the man that started Nollywood in  Nigeria.


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Hubert Ogunde
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Hubert Ogunde
Born May 31, 1916(1916-05-31)
Ososa, Ogun state, Nigeria
Died April 4, 1990 (aged 73)
Cromwell Hospital, London, England
Occupation Investor
Playwright
Actor
Theatre director
Musician
Hubert Adedeji Ogunde (May 31, 1916 in Ososa, near Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria – April 4, 1990 in London, England) was a Nigerian actor, playwright, theatre manager, and musician who founded the Ogunde Concert Party in (1945), the first professional theatrical company in Nigeria.

Ogunde starred in Mister Johnson, the 1990 motion picture which also featured Pierce Brosnan. The movie was shot on location in Jos.

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1 Background
1.1 Professional theatre work
1.2 Personal life and legacy
2 External links


[edit] Background
He worked first as a teacher before joining the Nigerian Police Force. Like many of his theatre contemporaries, such as A. B. David, P. A. Dawodu, Layeni and G.T. Onimole, his theatre career began under the patronage of the Church. In 1944, he produced his first opera, The Garden of Eden and The Throne of God, by commission of the Lagos-based Church of the Lord, a sect of the Cherubim and Seraphim Society. The performance was in aid of the Church building fund. The huge success of the production spurred Ogunde on to writing more operas until he decided to leave his amateur status as an artist and turn professional. He founded Ogunde Theatre — the first contemporary professional company in Nigeria. By this act Ogunde began the rise of modern professional theatre in Nigeria, a movement in which he remains the supreme artist and father figure.

He is regarded as the first Doyen in Traditional Nigerian Drama.

[edit] Professional theatre work
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The first play featured at Ogunde Theatre was entitled Tiger’s Empire. Premiered on March 4, 1946, Tiger's Empire was produced by The African Music Research Party and featured Ogunde, Beatrice Oyede and Abike Taiwo. The advertisement for the play was the result of Ogunde’s call for ‘paid actresses’. It marked the first time in Yoruba theatre that women were billed to appear in a play as professional artists in Light in their own right. Tiger’s Empire was an attack on colonial rule. It was followed by Darkness and Light, although Ogunde does not remember writing it. This is the only play that has escaped his memory.[citation needed] A public outcry had been going on for a year over the growth of a ‘social evil’ which was entering into Lagos society and corroding it. This evil was popularly known as the ‘Aso Ebi Craze’, a craze which required both men and women to buy the most expensive materials for social gatherings.

The rule was that: “When someone wants to celebrate a marriage or a funeral obsequies (sic) she chooses a piece of cloth to wear on the occasion and approaches relatives and friends to buy the same stuff to wear with her as uniform on the day. The number of people to wear the uniform with her will depend on her popularity and social connections.

“The custom has lent itself to much abuse in that the occasions for celebrating marriages of funerals occur so often that one may be asked by friends to buy ‘Aso Ebi’ more than ten times a year”. This craze of course bred intense competition with celebrants trying to outshine one another. It was a competition that delighted textile traders but which often ruined marriages, as women were known to leave husbands who could not afford to robe them, for lovers who could. Ogunde decided to make his first social satirical comment by writing a play designed to expose the vulgarity and ostentatiousness of the craze. He called the play Human parasites. A tragedy in two acts commenting that ‘Aso Ebi is a Social evil…

Aduke who kissed and keyed a thousand lovers for the sake of Aso Ebi… what happened when boys refused to be keyed is better seen than described”

He also produced two important plays: Yoruba Ronu and Otitokoro which refer to the political events in the western Nigeria and which led to the declaration of the state of emergency in 1963. He was the most prominent of the dramatist of the folk opera. He composed over 40 operas in Yoruba. His play Yoruba Ronu(Yoruba Think) was a satirical account of the strife that plagued Yorubas in the 1960s. It was banned in western Nigerian for sometime but was produced with great success in other parts of the country.

His other plays include; Darkness and Light, Mr. Devil's Money. e.t.c. He utilized the commercial repertoire of Yoruba theatre, frequently using both European instrument and drums in his plays and he married ALL the actresses in other to keep the group together. And his theatre also because of his various tours, became Alarinjo, a traveling theatre

[edit] Personal life and legacy
Clementina Oguntimirin later married Ogunde and became Adesewa Ogunde or Mama Eko (Lagos Mama) as she was popularly known by her fans in the 60’s, after taking the leading part in the popular play of that name. She had five children for Ogunde. The two senior girls Tokunbo and Tope are now leading members of the company.

Oguntimirin died in a road accident on September 1970 en-route to a scheduled performance in Ilesha. The following year, Ogunde wrote a play in her memory called Ayanmo. Her death was mourned throughout the country and press and mass media coverage of her death and funeral was extensive.[citation needed]

Ogunde died on April 4, 1990 at London's Cromwell Hospital following a brief illness.

Ogunde became the leading producer of Yoruba celluloid movies with "J'ayesinmi" (Let the world rest)and "Aiye" (Life!)blazing the trail.

Seun remove this thread off line before the militia see what they have use the oil money to do in abuja. They would start blowing up the oil pipeline, when they see they are suffering while the northerner are enjoying the oil money on thier behalf, can you please remove this thread please.

Seun remove this thread off line before the militia see what they have use the oil money to do in abuja. They would start blowing up the oil pipeline, when they see they are suffering while the northerner are enjoying the oil money on thier behalf, can you please remove this thread please.

Are you Ok or sick in the brain. Young woman, I am older than your speaker of house of representative. You uneducated people again. Your parent did not teach you anything. Go to school. let Ohaneze send someone or even the Igbo community in toronto can verify this information. Have you seen anyone saying I am telling a lie. NO. go thru all the thread because everybody abroad is looking at the pictures that why they have been quiet. We are scared for your lifes. Most people are already trying to get thier family out of Nigeria aready. The embassys would be full of application in the next month. Noone can predict the outcome.

And I think thier are slowpoke like you , who still believe in fraud. Actually, if it was over here Makama should have been arrested by now. Obasanjo government conducted a fraud census. Why do you think BBC reporters have been given Obasanjo problem. watch the video. Everybody is looking at the picture of nigeria on satellite picture. This is why even obasanjo credibility have falling.

There are Northerners in Toronto , and also igbos people, I am throwing a challenge to Northerner community in Toronto  or the Igbo community in toronto to disprove all of the satellite picture. My phone number is 647 258 2755.  we have a problem.

I am throwing a challenge that is open to any nigerian living abroad.

We have a problem as a nation at the moment. And I know El rufia has seen the satellite pictures that why he is calling for a hold on election. He is an architect. But we have problem. Even if there is a hold, why are we holding. is it for us to get the united nation involve, if that is  the reason, It make sense. But if not, we have to agree we have a problem.

If the election goes on, the Igbos have become permanent minority for the rest of thier lifes. And so as the north.

Even when you remove mega lagos and ibadan from the picture the area coverage of the other southern state capital is more than all of the 19 state of the North.  Ibadan and lagos can make at least an average of 628 towns in each state of the 19 northern state. Only Jigawa state in the north has 800 settlement. But there are so small.

how are you going to put southerner in the training school. You would have northerner there too. but in war, you do not have time to bring northerner to the south to training, neither would you have southerner going to the north. That is the need why you should not relocate the one in the north but build duplicate copy in the south.
I have to go to church now. Have a wonderful day.

Now if nigeria is been attacked, how do you training the new troope in the south, do you think, you would have time to ship people to the North for training and now bring them back to the south to fight.? .

No you dont have time for that. but if the training facilities should be in the south , they walk in and out of training and start fighting. Even originally, you can ask any military expert all over the world. All of the military training facilities should have been in the southern part of Nigeria and not in the north for rapid response of any military attack . Go and find out from military expert. The location were wrong in the first place.

philip0906  , is planting of flower the solution to lagos problem. If like we have been shouting about equity in the system of the satellite pictures. if fashola has been shouting too down there in Lagos and supporting us. And Akala  and others have been shouting, we would have got this review.

On fighting for right of people of lagos state or oyo state and other yoruba states. Fashola scores ZERO, AKALA score ZERO. You see, this is the reason why they have it in the constitution that noone can take them to court for fighting for the right of the people. But do you see them do that NO. Is fashola still a lawyer?  I am not a lawyer, Tinubu was never a lawyer,when he use to speak up. Fashola, akala and other should learn to speak up this is what i means to be a governor.

I do not have Immunity? I stand been prosecuted in a nigeria court system, but I have dare to speak up for my people, what is wrong in people who have Immunity and have refuse to use the power of Immunity?

Your lifes would remain the same way, with bad road and no facilities if we do not get this issue solve. Some people closing thier mouth because they want to look good before Jonathan Goodluck, shows thier lack of concern for the Yorubas people. People should stop fighting for thier own position and see the way own people are living.

Use the power of Immunity? if not people would take it away from you and give it to people who can fight for thier right. Nobody send you there to be friend to Jonathan Goodluck.

For God sake, I dont live in Nigeria, but I know what you people are suffering, if I can speak out, I dont see why people who have constitution Immunity should keep quiet.  Is Jonathan going to give the money to me or Fashola or akala govt. ? I am not getting anything.

Does fashola or akala have money in their bank account to repair the road No, the only way they can get that money is get what is constitutional thier, which the federal govt have denied them the way the system is set up.

Nonsense, Do you think it was right for northerners to put all of those school only on thier side, Answer my question. ? Is that not selfishness ?? look you, what is wrong is wrong, and that is why nigeria has problem. I am not saying they should remove them, I am saying , you must have duplicate in the south for your own security.

Here are state that I feel should get the military location because of they lack military facilities and also the way they are set up.

New School Of Infantry  ebonyi state

New Armed Forces Command & Staff College  Should be in Bayelsa state

New Depot Of Nigerian Army  Should be in delta state

New Air Force Training School  should be in Osun state

New Nigeria Defence Academy –  should be in Ekiti because of the mountain and terrain

New National Defence College should be in akwa ibom

New School Of Artillery  should in ondo state

New School Of Armour   should be in edo state state

deor03, you have no point. The military is a defend system. And the way the military is plan and were the location are place is very important to the country, in term of bring stability to a country.
An inbalance in the system that the north has created should be corrected.

Even if nigeria has emeny attack, how can you defend yourself.??

You have no defend system.? You can not go and put the weapon in the north and think you have a weapon defend system.,

Every nation has position its military in sure a way, they must be able to reponse to enermy attack, any time and anyday and even if there is a war, they must be able to quickly train its personnel , and if you put all military training school in the north. You have failed to fulfill the purpose of the military.

The government has no choice but to have duplicate of all of this school in the south. It is for your own safe as a nation too. Its has no much to do with south and north. But what is best for you.

Nigeria is one of the country that is more easy to attack because of the way the north has set up the military location. Any country can take over nigeria govt easy in less than 3 hours.  The USA army can do it in less than 1 hour. And US or Russia can install a new president in Nigeria because of the weak military system put in place by the North.

Abagworo what igbo land size did I reduced. I never reduce none. You can tell us. there are many igbo abroad, even in Canada, the Igbo community can reach me at 647 2582755 and we can all do a video and post it and you would see how this picture were made, there is no Ojoro in this thing. The igbos abroad knows that.


Aloy, for the last 12 years, the PDP have held on to power and we all know the result of the PDP. I do not have to tell nigerian.

We are more powerful than the PDP. And I can tell you we can remove the PDP from power. And we are the only set of Group that can remove the PDP from power in Nigeria because we have more than half of nigeria population who are suffering from the bad government the PDP have provided.

Look the PDP were the one who conducted the fraud census. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo government conduct the fraud census. and Now look at the census and look at the satellite picture.  Do you think the Yoruba people like what they see, How do you think the Yoruba people feel about the PDP that have done this thing to them?

Do you vote for people who did this to them and refuse to correct it NO. I am telling, if Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe Goodluck do not correct it, PDP would loss Yorubaland and edo and delta state. To be honest with you most Yorubas are upset with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo , you can see how Yorubas  describe him online. So if that is what Jonathan and PDP are banking on. They can see some on the thread online. Failure or Odo etc, it tell you how upset people are.

If he think the nonsense constitution amendment they made is the one they would use to decieve Yorubaland and edo and delta state.  people. I think they have all lost thier mind. removing "comma , is or are from the constitution " is not what they call constitution amendment.

Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe Goodluck has only one option but to remove the Yorubas,edo,delta from nigeria or go for the sudan option. This is the only way people would see him doing something.

Aloy, i dont think what we want Jonathan Goodluck to do is difficult. And anyone who does not like it in the North. All they need to do is show that person the satellite pictures. And when they see it. They would know why he has to do it. It is that easy.

Most nigerian would not care if he does it. please. You have NTA in 100 location, the NTA need to show the satellite pictures of each state to the people , so that they know the truth. And when people learn and see this thing with thier eyes , they would know that this is the best for them.

And when northerner discoverys they are minority, Look they would ask Jonathan twice to do it. small many town. do not make a large town.

Look lagos has an area of 37 X 23=851. if you put all the state capital in the north together, thier area coverage does not make up mega lagos . mega lagos still have large area than all of them put together. so you can imagine.

On this issue, I would support  Jonathan Goodluck , I think he should not make a mistake by trying to relocate the one in the north but he should build 8 new military all in the  south . USA have many military school.
So he should build in the south urgently.

New Nigeria Defence Academy –

New National Defence College

New School Of Artillery 

New School Of Armour

New School Of Infantry

New Armed Forces Command & Staff College

New Depot Of Nigerian Army

New Air Force Training School   

I support him on this issue. And it is urgent for the nation. It was wrong for northerner to have done that, but two wrong do not make a right by removing it. But just build new one in the south. And it is of national emergency.

I think you people should know  right now, nobody in Nigeria has the constitution right to stop yar adua coming into the country. Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe goodluck does not have the constitution power. It would lead to the president of nigeria to stop any nigerian from entering into the country. Look at the constitution it clearly state, that nigerian are allowed in and out and even the president of nigeria cant not stop someone been issue a mere passport to enter into nigeria.

That right of citizen is clearly written in the constitution. Yes people may have the fear of going back  to Nigeria because people abuse the constitution in nigeria.

The only person the president of nigeria can stop from entering into nigeria, is himself Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe goodluck. That is if he decide he does not want to enter nigeria.  it was 2 am. did you people want them to go and ask him, if yar adua enter

So all this nonsense about Yar adua entering nigeria as illegal is nonsense. 

even out of respect for a sick man Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe goodluck should not probe his entering which is even in our africa or religion culture.  I would say it was wrong for the family to prevent Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe goodluck from seen yar adua when he was in the country. But i think, they may have been upset with something, they may have ready or how power was handled over for Jonathan and statement made by Dora Akunyili and Yar adua family  felt betrayed.

You cant blame them too because , they were in pain at the time. And the way Dora akunyili handle the whole issue was more of for her to get television exposure for herself and keep her Job and been in the good books of Jonathan. She did it for herself. But even that cause problem for Jonathan against the family and the north while she was helping herself to get a job. she was destroying relationship with the yar adua family and jonathan. When she know clearly, that we already had a problem between the south and the North in the country. that was why i was against her at that time. you see job come and go. but friend are for a life time.

We have to alway remind ourself, you people are living in two or more nation already.

Aloy what president do is they take critical decision that is best not for themself or some people. But for all the people. And that is What Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe goodluck should do.?

Look with the sudan option. Sambo becomes the president of the north country. So a northerner would still be in charge and the so call rotation and nonsense would be over.  Sudan is going thru it with the help of the united nation.

I believe you must treat all men fairly, either they are northerner or southerner.

Delta state is 5 to 6 times more populated than Bayelsa . Even Edo is 5 times more populated. But do you know they give bayelsa 3 times more money than edo state. So nobody should be shout south south, when the people who are suppose to correct it is south south. It is should up mid west or up bendle. everybody should bear thier father name until they correct it.


Even sapele area is more populated than the whole of Bayelsa state. And if some people do not believe that this should continue forever. then tell us where who are south south. Most the people be an ijaw person before they can claim south south. We should all fear God.

If IBB have 1000 cars already and since they say he can not win, then he should pass them over to us who can win and make the north  majority.  that is the best he can do for the north habi. You people make me laugh.

IBB  would never stepdown for jonathan, you people dont know IBB. IBB can stand down for me if I run.

The oil revenue only. it does not include tax. Each country keep its tax.

What is means is 70% oil revenue.
South get 1.94% for 20 state it has, and the North get 1.94% for 16 number of states

How long does Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe Goodluck expect the people of Edo and delta state to continue to send thier chidlren to prostitution in ITALY just to help thier family. When it clearly show the issue of satellite pictures is of the reason. Unfunding.I think it is important for Jonathan to rewrite the wrong.

Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe Goodluck has no choice than rewrite the wrong or he would loss the election in edo and delta state and yorubaland. If he claim he won,. it would result in violent. the PDP would loss every state, if he does not correct the wrong.

We should bring the united nation into it.

Aloy: Yorubas never betray abiola. It was other ethnics group. who love money so much. I do not want to name anybody.

But I know you are into your propaganda again.
There is NO ethnics group that can beat a Yorubaman in Yorubaland.  If I run for president. Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe Goodluck would not pick up 5% of the vote in Yorubaland, even in ever villages, town that PDP have members.
Actually all PDP elected officer would be left with either 2 option to switch party or loss.  Actual they would leave jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe goodluck for their own good, so that they do not loss, because they would burn down thier houses and even people who they see as traitors in Yorubaland.

And if satellite pictures shows this and Jonathan is betraying us by not correcting the wrong. Do you think we would want to vote back any PDP member. I think it is time for Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe goodluck he may loss the election if he he does not do anything about the satellite pictures before the election. Yorubas should not vote for him, we would have no other option that look for a candidate that believe with us that justice should be done to us. Everybody bear his father name.


For God sake look at Benin city and ask, how would anybody from Edo state want to vote for Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe goodluck in Edo state or delta state.

So what nonsense south south are you talking about when they are cheating Bendle people. If Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe Goodluck  is not ready to do good to Bendle people or Yoruba people why do you expect them to vote for him Aloy.

What you asking the Itsekiri or Uhrobo or edo people to do is sacrifice his next generation for Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe Goodluck.  Just because Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe Goodluck is shouting south south. Aloy do you have a brain in your head. Do you think the north would agree to be minority, NO.

We have two option for Jonathan ebelechukwu Azikiwe Goodluck , either he remove the Edo , delta and Yorubas from Nigeria. Or we all go to  the United nation and have the sudan option.

What is the sudan option. In the sudan option, they divided the country into south and north. So in our case we have Kwara, benue and Kogi be part of the south.   While we share oil revenue from 70% of the revenue based on the number of state. 20 southern state : 16 Northern state.  ( ratio 20:16)
While 13% oil derivation state and 17% oil derivation based on country derivation.

This are the option he has. He has no other option at this point. If not, you would either end up in civil war or have problem. IBB is a coup plotter.

why would anyone want to kidnap another person. For what The govt should do something about it. It shows people are becoming poorer.

Yoruba people are United, dont worry about that, we are in control in every state and local govt.

Dont worry about Yoruba people. We are ready to leave Nigeria, that is one voice of majority of Yorubas. 90% of Yorubas so that there would be peace.

what I could help you people do is post the state by state satellite pictures.

This may help you or if you people want. I can make a book with the satellite pictures of Nigeria, state by state and local government by local government. And you people would see, that I have been telling you people the truth.