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Sports › Re: Caster Semenya And Violet Raseboya's White Wedding Photos by naptu2(op): 8:17pm On Jan 07, 2017 |
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Sports › Re: Caster Semenya And Violet Raseboya's White Wedding Photos by naptu2(op): 7:44pm On Jan 07, 2017 |
BCharles: Why did the poster made it look like it was a lesbian marriage
And HER wife sylva1: Is she a lesbian? She identifies herself as a lesbian. |
Sports › Re: Caster Semenya And Violet Raseboya's White Wedding Photos by naptu2(op): 7:30pm On Jan 07, 2017 |
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Sports › Caster Semenya And Violet Raseboya's White Wedding Photos by naptu2(op): 6:54pm On Jan 07, 2017 |
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Politics › Re: Buhari At The Inauguration Nana Akufo-Addo As Ghana President (Photos) by naptu2: 4:40pm On Jan 07, 2017 |
Dangote in the third picture. |
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TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 12:02pm On Jan 07, 2017 |
masseratti: okay, would love to see the 1st series am. Pretty sure i missed part of those, there should be a YouTube video of it or something. That's what we were discussing earlier on the thread. I'm searching for videos of that first series. My aunt acted in it, my uncle worked on it, I have memories of it and I'd like to see if my memory is accurate. But I haven't been able to find any videos. (One of the reasons I created this thread is to answer some questions that were in my head, eg, who is Iluyomade? What was the name of the first lawyer? Etc). There's a rumour that the NTA recorded over all the tapes of the series. However, I found an audio recording of the first series and I posted it earlier on this thread. |
TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 11:23am On Jan 07, 2017 |
masseratti: 68 to 84? are you sure of that? Yes. The first series ran from 1968-1984. It was produced by Segun Olusola. It was stopped in 1984. However, there was a demand by viewers for the revival of the show. Almost a year later, NTA introduced The New Village Headmaster (the second series) which was produced by Dejumo Lewis. |
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TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 6:34am On Jan 07, 2017*. Modified: 6:50am On Jan 07, 2017 |
naptu2: Characters
19) Lawyer (played by Albert Egbe). I also can't remember his screen name, but I think he handled cases in Eleyinmi's court.
Albert Egbe later acted in Jagua Nana's Daughter and was the first Basi in Basi And Company. Aha! I've remembered his name! Lawyer Odunuga. |
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TV/Movies › Re: Do You Know This Classic Nigerian Sitcom? by naptu2(op): 9:51pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
naptu2: It's basically the same thing. The group was known as Ojo Ladipo Theatre Group, but Ojo Ladipo died in 1978 and the name of the group was changed to Awada Kerikeri sometime in the late '80s or '90s. But everybody called the show "Aluwe" because he was the star of the show.
Aluwe, Awero, Oga Bello and the light complexioned guy (I can't remember his name ) were all members of the Ojo Ladipo /Awada Kerikeri Theatre Group. The light complexioned guy that I was trying to remember is Jide Kosoko. I still can't remember his screen name, but he was Bello and Aluwe's boss on the show. |
TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 9:09pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Caveatemptor: Propaganda killed the Village headmaster. The New village headmaster and the new Masquerade became tools of propaganda in the hands of the Military governments of the day. Each new military government used these programs of the people to express their fake government policies and as such killed interest in the programmes. The military killed the Daily Times too. Sad. With respect to Village Headmaster, I could clearly see what the problem was. This was a gripping and exciting story, with very good writers and actors. When you are watching TV or a movie, you want to be lost in the story. You want to be so caught up in the story that you are not even aware of what's going on around you (which is what Village Headmaster used to do). But you are suddenly jolted back to reality when an actor suddenly delivers a long and boring speech about family planning or vaccination or something like that. And it's clear that that speech was not put in there by the writer. It's incongruous with the style of the show. |
TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 9:04pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Caveatemptor: Propaganda killed the Village headmaster. The New village headmaster and the new Masquerade became tools of propaganda in the hands of the Military governments of the day. Each new military government used these programs of the people to express their fake government policies and as such killed interest in the programmes. The military killed the Daily Times too. Sad. I always use Daily Times as an example of the damage that government ownership can do. Daily Times was the biggest newspaper in Nigeria! I mean, they owned West Africa Magazine (the only international magazine by Africans and for Africans) ! They published Drum and Spear magazines, had Evening Times, Times Leisure Services, Miss Nigeria, etc. It was the best newspaper! But by the early 1980s it had become an "obituary newspaper" (that's what we called it). I convinced my dad to stop buying Daily Times because there was nothing in it but obituaries. No news. |
TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 8:49pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Caveatemptor: Hope you remember the episodes where Chief Elenyinmi and teacher Garuba conspired to overthrow the Oloja Ajelende and Headmaster Ife Araba. It was a reflection on Dimkas coup against General Murtala Muhammad in 1976. That was when the Military government of General Obasanjo started using the series to play politics. By the time the New Village headmaster became a political megaphone lots of people began to lose interest. I originally planned to create this thread a year ago, but I never had the time until now. That was in my original draft that I wrote a year ago. It became a government propaganda tool in the mid '80s and people lost interest in it. Then came soap operas like Mirror In The Sun, Ripples, Behind The Clouds and Supple Blues, which took the shine off it. In order to be able to compete, the producers introduced the character of the returnee prince and tried to make it a bit more like the other soap operas, but it was too late. |
TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 8:44pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
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TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 8:28pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
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TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 8:27pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Caveatemptor: And the gongs that heralded the beginning of the programe. Gbagan! Gbagaun!! Gbaun!!! It was like it was a summons to come and watch and share in a story about a village that was a mirror of Nigeria. Once again thanks to Naptu2. There's a video online that has the theme song. I'll search for it. Orlando Julius also did his own interpretation of the theme song (using the lyrics that children made up to accompany the talking drum). I'll search for that too. |
TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 8:24pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
[quote author=Floyd45 post=52593103][/quote]Unfortunately I don’t have any video with Laraba in it. I'm still searching for videos of my aunt. |
TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 8:23pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
Caveatemptor: Great job Naptu2. You brought back memories of my childhood. The Village headmaster ran on NTV on Sunday's at 8 'o clock in the evenings. Of course television stations closed at 12midnight and resumed at 4 pm in the evenings the next day so The Village headmaster was prime time television before the news at 9pm. My whole family would gather around our JVC black and white 20 inch television with wooden sliding doors to watch the grainy pictures and pray ECN(PHCH) would not strike until the programme ended. And I am talking about the original series with Ted Mukoro as headmaster,Elsie Olusola as Sisi Clara, Ibidun Allison as Amebo,Joe Layode as teacher Garuba, Layi Ashadele as Ojo Yewuge, and Jab Adu as Dr Bassey Okon. I hope you are aware that in the original series there was no Kabiyesi Ajelende or Chief Elenyinmi, they were characters later added as the series progressed. And if I remember correctly Bassey Okon daughter in the first few episodes was called Ekaette.
Once again nice one . Yeah, I know that the Oloja and Eleyinmi were added to the show later (I indicated that in my writeup), but that was in the first series (the first series ran from 1968-1984. The second series ran from 1985-1991). |
TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 6:57pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
I almost forgot, Toun Oni was Eleyinmi's wife, right? |
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TV/Movies › Re: Do You Know This Classic Nigerian Sitcom? by naptu2(op): 5:09pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
jantavanta: I remember Ojo Ladipo but not Awada Kerikeri. It's basically the same thing. The group was known as Ojo Ladipo Theatre Group, but Ojo Ladipo died in 1978 and the name of the group was changed to Awada Kerikeri sometime in the late '80s or '90s. But everybody called the show "Aluwe" because he was the star of the show. Aluwe, Awero, Oga Bello and the light complexioned guy (I can't remember his name ) were all members of the Ojo Ladipo /Awada Kerikeri Theatre Group. |
TV/Movies › Re: Do You Know This Classic Nigerian Sitcom? by naptu2(op): 2:33pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
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TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 2:30pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
bababuff: 20) Lawyer Iyanda (played by Sam Agbebi). He appeared many years after the first lawyer. The Oloja and Chief Eleyinmi often called him "Baby Lawyer".
Iyanda, used to be the palace messenger before he traveled, and later returned to Oja as a lawyer. Thank you very much. |
TV/Movies › Re: The Village Headmaster. The Series With The Longest Run On Nigerian Television by naptu2(op): 2:30pm On Jan 06, 2017 |
nija80: I just remember my primary school days with relish when i read through.meeen!!.I was so young then but i still remembers every thing about play.Iluyomade was a teacher in the later series if i can recall and chief Arigbabo(short for of Arigbabuowo)some one who has calabash to fetch money was introduced too later.Richer that chancellor Balogun and so most times they are always on opposing side.Chancellor Balogun later became a king in Aramoko Ekiti(dont know if he is still alive) Knew his House in Isheri Berger in those days.Chief Eleyinmi Later became a king in one of the towns in Ogun state(forgot the Name) Heard he is no more(may be wrong). Don't know if any soap can beat THE NEW VILLAGE HEADMASTER. Thank you so very much for this. |