Foodqueen:
Na him de carry sewing machine for shoulder

Na question i ask o.

Sura d tailor

"Jaguar Jaguar"

"Jangoligo"

"jaguar jaguar"

"My belle o, my head o"

Haaa...good old memories.

Hmmm.

Alitair:
Jagua, Oseni, Julie and Grace.

My dad loved his comics and movies. The VHS tapes are still in my father's house till date.

Wow! You should seek to digitalize them and probably upload them on youtube, Facebook and the likes. You can monetize your channel. Money shouldn't be lying around your house like that. What you have is a goldmine.

Icrave4u:
MY BELLE O, MY HEAD O!!! Do you still remember this Yoruba Actor called JAGUA?

Chief James Afolabi Afolayan MON, MFR popularly known as Jagua was born 4th July 1946 in Iludun-Oro kwara state Nigeria.

He managed on his own to finish secondary education but his journey into entertainment started when he was just 8years old in his paternal hometown Iludun-Oro where he formed the Iludun-Oro Jolly Mambo. It was a singing group.

The young Afolabi then go about adding spice to social gatherings by singing.. Yes he was a singer and a great dancer too.

He did this for some years until he met the doyen of Nigeria theatre, the iconic Hubert Ogunde.

James Afolabi learnt that Chief Ogunde and his group will be performing in Esie so he made plans to be there,saved up some money from selling bush meat so he could make it to the show.

On getting there he was intrigued by Chief Ogunde's musical rendition and decided he was going to move to Lagos to have chief train him in music.

James Afolabi whose family was mainly into buying and selling expressed his desire to go fully into music to his family and they never objected despite the fact that such professions was seen as mainly for the "never do well" in those days.

Few days after a family member brought young Afolabi to Lagos and they headed to Chief Ogunde's office and joined a very long queue of people wanting to join the group.

Eventually it was Afolabi Afolayan's turn to audition and though baba Ogunde thought he was very young, he also saw that he was very determined.He then handed daddy to his first wife saying " Gba omo e ni" ( take him, he is your child)

Afolabi said he never knew baba Ogungbe was also into acting. He said he admired his stage presence.

Afolabi said for him as a young person it was divine whenever baba graced the stage.

Afolabi Afolayan considers Baba Ogunde as a father and his first wife who took him in a mother.

He was with Chief Ogunde and family for 2years (1960-1962).

Afolabi Afolayan also trained under Akinsola Ogungbe before he teamed up with his friend Ishola Ogunsola aka Isho Pepper to form the Afolayan Ogunsola Theatre group in 1964.

Afolabi was the main singer and instrumentalist in the group while Ishola composed more of the stage performances.

The performances was rendered in Yoruba language.
Besides other productions, I remember they did "Iyawo alalubosa"together...back then, it was quite popular.

Besides music, 'Folabi( like his friends and family calls him)was known to be the fun guy at every gathering.

He just loves making people laugh and as time goes on he realizes he seem to be more interested in the comedy aspect of acting and went for it.

He met very young Elyzar Taylor a Sierraleonian who was still a student at the time.

It was Elyzar who gave him the stage name Jagua and advised him to act in pidgin English as that will cut across every tribe and make them more widely accessible.

Jagua also called Elyzar Grace on stage. That was how Jagua play Group was born.

They had their first major television show in 1968 with RKTV Kaduna.

Jagua and Grace got married in 1970. Grace was juggling marriage and the group while still in school.

With God by their side and love from friends and fans who we see as family, the Jagua brand became widely accepted.

Jagua comedy was in all the NTA stations, was in almost every Nigerian home.

It is devoid of vulgar languages...you don't have to send your children to bed because you want to watch Jagua...it is actually a family programme and many children look up to it.

Jagua comedy entertained and educated most of us via TV screens and live stage performances.

They were also involved in charity causes.

They entertained the less privileged for free, raised money to champion charitable causes, entertained our troops abroad (ECOMOG).

In the very early years of Nollywood, Jagua and his group made some home videos which was released in VHS cassettes but most of his works are with the NTA.

Jagua was recognised by the Nigerian government for his works hence his national honours.

As a father, he was a great father and friend.

The laughter never stops on stage.
He was the best. He died Oct 5th 2000.

23years on, we still hear his signature tune "my belle ooo my head o"

Are you sure of the date of his death?
I recalled seeing his Obituary at that time as December 31st 1999. I could be wrong though, it was a long time ago.
Besides I saw Jagua once in Orile. That was in the 90s,years after his his shows stopped airing in Nta. He was just walking along the road, most people didn't recognize him but I did. Called his name, he looked at me with a smile and walked on. Seems he didn't want people to know it was him. I was telling the boy with me then "That's Jagua", pointing at him as he was walking away.
That was in the 90s and I was still a kid then. I was shocked to see his obituary few years later.

Psalms 103:15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

103:16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

vastolord4:
Remember watching him on our black n white TV back then

we don old o

Icrave4u:
MY BELLE O, MY HEAD O!!! Do you still remember this Yoruba Actor called JAGUA?

Chief James Afolabi Afolayan MON, MFR popularly known as Jagua was born 4th July 1946 in Iludun-Oro kwara state Nigeria.

He managed on his own to finish secondary education but his journey into entertainment started when he was just 8years old in his paternal hometown Iludun-Oro where he formed the Iludun-Oro Jolly Mambo. It was a singing group.

The young Afolabi then go about adding spice to social gatherings by singing.. Yes he was a singer and a great dancer too.

He did this for some years until he met the doyen of Nigeria theatre, the iconic Hubert Ogunde.

James Afolabi learnt that Chief Ogunde and his group will be performing in Esie so he made plans to be there,saved up some money from selling bush meat so he could make it to the show.

On getting there he was intrigued by Chief Ogunde's musical rendition and decided he was going to move to Lagos to have chief train him in music.

James Afolabi whose family was mainly into buying and selling expressed his desire to go fully into music to his family and they never objected despite the fact that such professions was seen as mainly for the "never do well" in those days.

Few days after a family member brought young Afolabi to Lagos and they headed to Chief Ogunde's office and joined a very long queue of people wanting to join the group.

Eventually it was Afolabi Afolayan's turn to audition and though baba Ogunde thought he was very young, he also saw that he was very determined.He then handed daddy to his first wife saying " Gba omo e ni" ( take him, he is your child)

Afolabi said he never knew baba Ogungbe was also into acting. He said he admired his stage presence.

Afolabi said for him as a young person it was divine whenever baba graced the stage.

Afolabi Afolayan considers Baba Ogunde as a father and his first wife who took him in a mother.

He was with Chief Ogunde and family for 2years (1960-1962).

Afolabi Afolayan also trained under Akinsola Ogungbe before he teamed up with his friend Ishola Ogunsola aka Isho Pepper to form the Afolayan Ogunsola Theatre group in 1964.

Afolabi was the main singer and instrumentalist in the group while Ishola composed more of the stage performances.

The performances was rendered in Yoruba language.
Besides other productions, I remember they did "Iyawo alalubosa"together...back then, it was quite popular.

Besides music, 'Folabi( like his friends and family calls him)was known to be the fun guy at every gathering.

He just loves making people laugh and as time goes on he realizes he seem to be more interested in the comedy aspect of acting and went for it.

He met very young Elyzar Taylor a Sierraleonian who was still a student at the time.

It was Elyzar who gave him the stage name Jagua and advised him to act in pidgin English as that will cut across every tribe and make them more widely accessible.

Jagua also called Elyzar Grace on stage. That was how Jagua play Group was born.

They had their first major television show in 1968 with RKTV Kaduna.

Jagua and Grace got married in 1970. Grace was juggling marriage and the group while still in school.

With God by their side and love from friends and fans who we see as family, the Jagua brand became widely accepted.

Jagua comedy was in all the NTA stations, was in almost every Nigerian home.

It is devoid of vulgar languages...you don't have to send your children to bed because you want to watch Jagua...it is actually a family programme and many children look up to it.

Jagua comedy entertained and educated most of us via TV screens and live stage performances.

They were also involved in charity causes.

They entertained the less privileged for free, raised money to champion charitable causes, entertained our troops abroad (ECOMOG).

In the very early years of Nollywood, Jagua and his group made some home videos which was released in VHS cassettes but most of his works are with the NTA.

Jagua was recognised by the Nigerian government for his works hence his national honours.

As a father, he was a great father and friend.

The laughter never stops on stage.
He was the best. He died Oct 5th 2000.

23years on, we still hear his signature tune "my belle ooo my head o"

Is this your original write up? Pls always acknowledge the writers where u copy things from. your posts are mostly plagiarised why?

I started watching TV at 18yrs, so no idea

Jaguar n grace

My belle o....my head o

Rest easy

AfahaAbia:
Hahahaha I remember watching his program as a kid. I actually saw a couple of episodes on YouTube. Memories!

During video cassette era.

He has PHD in drinking Garri

phemmyfour:
Jaguar n grace
My belle o....my head o

And Atibiaro

Jaqua Jaqua, what a great comedian.
I knew Jaqua when I was growing up in Minna. He started his comedy in Minna. At the end of the school term, all children in our primary school would be asked to pay a certain amount, kobo kobo then. And assemble in the large open field. Jaqua and his troupe would come and entertain us and then they share report cards to us and holiday commences (the good old days). He started acting on TV in Minna too before venturing outside the shores of Minna and became very popular. RIP great man.
Minna has produced men. Even Cyril Stober (from Sierra Leone) schooled in Government Secondary School (formerly Fatima College) Minna and started his career in NTA Minna before being transferred to Abuja where he became very popular.

The swallow food demolisher.

Obedient won't know this man. They are indomue generation.

My belle oooo my head ooo.
Jagoooo my man.
Keep Resting in peace

The yester years of beautiful programmes on our NTA network. The days of Jaguar, Samanja, Second Chance etc. The good old days...
TV programmes actually bores me now...

...all this people shouting Nigeria was good those days..it was good because u were not paying bills then,, onr own na to play, watch TV, etc....our parents were the once complaining like we are complaining now......


But i know that insecurities were not this bad then

Yes I do. The days of samanja as well.

Indomie generation will not know him.

When inec announced BAT president elect my spirit shouted my belle oooo my hrad ooooo, jagua jagua danka dede. Eyan tilo

This is when nobody knows his or her tribe. These idiots nowadays talks shit and abuse their fathers because all of us dey online.

How can anyone forget the good old days

Who says Obidient won't know Jaguar or Samaja or Second Chance or Koko Close etc?

I am Obidient and I know them all


.

Antipob777:
Obedient won't know this man. They are indomue generation.

My belle oooo my head ooo.
Jagoooo my man.
Keep Resting in peace

I remember watching his plays as a child and having a hell of a laugh

Foodqueen:
Na him de carry sewing machine for shoulder

Na question i ask o.

Suradi Tailor is that One.. Sura Sura Sura di Tailor is your Man...

Good Old Days.. Not for Indomie Generation

"Tell me where they for born you Nigeria..2X
Because of katalata you wanna runaway oh no
I go do my best for my father's land
Lie lie I no go run away , Nigeria is my home

Don't forget Samanja too .........😂🤣

Oh back in the days when we will have to wait till NTA open their station.

Sweet memories.. Jagua ... My belle oooo my head oooo.

When jagua visited kano i followed him every where in sabon garri bare footed till my parent started looking for me. I love jagua and miss him so much. Do you remember i don carry am come oo akrika

Lexusgs430:
Don't forget Samanja too .........😂🤣

you cant compare samanja with jagua now