₦airaland Forum

Movie lovers, practitioners and critics who graced the premiere of ‘Eagle Wings’ penultimate Sunday at Blue Pictures Cinema, Lagos will definitely agree that the blockbuster has set a record in the Nigerian movie industry.

The military-themed movie, a first of its kind in Nigeria, was produced and directed by Paul Apel Papel in partnership with the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Investments Limited, an investment arm of the NAF.

Eagle Wings’ follows the story of an Air Force Fighter pilot who must navigate his way to safety amid an insurgency. It highlights the sacrifices of the military in combating insecurity and keeping the peace of the nation. The movie also explores the often tragic, yet thrilling mission in battling for life, peace, and freedom to love, in the face of great danger.

Speaking at the premiere, Papel recounted how the idea for the movie which he described as the biggest Nollywood-Military collaboration was borne “The defence headquarters sent for a meeting with Nollywood that they wanted us to put together a story of the military which has been negative prior, whereas these guys are going through a lot trying to secure the country.”

Continuing, he said “I had friends among the pilots, so it was easy for me to tell their stories. In this film, you will see why the insurgency is not giving up on the fight. Of course, if we give the military the kind of support they need, they will win.”

He added that the motion picture was shot on Arri film camera Open Gate 4444xq codec with Orion Anamorphic lenses. , “I now understand why American films look different from ours. The kind of instruments we used for this movie are sophisticated.“

Shot in Maiduguri, Kaduna and Abuja, and Kanji, Lapel revealed that about N145m was spent in producing the film. “The money is much more than that because there was another support we got that is not quantified.”

On his part, Nollywood actor Enyinna Nwigwe, who played the lead said the movie is a national treasure that tells the story of bravery, love and humanity.

“The kind of support we got from the Nigerian Air Force was mind-blowing, we filmed across different air force bases. I didn’t know they would be as supportive as they were. Giving us access to the equipment that we used, the fighter jets, automated rifles, and manpower… It was amazing, without missing or losing any sense of security in the process.

The movie based on true events, stars Femi Jacobs, Enyinna Nwigwe, Yakubu Mohammed, Keppy Ekpeyong, Francis Duru, Uzee Usman, Paul Apel Papel, Funky Mallam, Saeed Mohammed, Patience Ujah among others.

The late movie veteran, Sadiq Daba, also starred in the film, playing the role of the president of Nigeria.

molotough:
*Igbos you are not our enemies*, and when would the majority of you come to realise that the power which the landless fulani black arabs wield over us is not more but one. One which strength is inversely proportional to how well we continue to react to the numerous falsehood disseminated by the many provacatur they have planted within us. These provacatur are mongrels; those fulani-Igbos, fulani-Yoruba fulani-etc who are half-breeds with knowledge of our language, ways and culture. They do more damage from within than the real fulanis themselves. Why should we continue to hate, fight, quarrel when the way to successfully achieve the disintegration of this evil and failed so-called country? The fulani black arabs continue to do everything to ensure that the seeds of discord, hatred and enmity which they have planted among us continue to yield more a behavior that marks a disunited South. We the Yorubas, have always demand for the deamalgamation of this Zoo even long before you lots gave the fulani (_whom the British left the administrative control with (in order to keep the indeginous natives perpetually underdeveloped and backwards_) a reason to attack your people under the pretext of a civil war which is nothing but a genocidal war masterminded against your people. These same half-Fulani-Igbos mongrels misguided Ojukwu to invade Yorubaland when he should have logically taken his forces up to Kaduna to destroy where the largest and only armory the fulani-dominated army relied on, this intrusion into the West and Edo led to the Yorubas who have been sitting on the fence, to join the war as many Yorubas had to go enlist to be a soldier. All this led to the civil Biafran war. BEFORE all that's the Yorubas have always wanted out of the contraption, even long before and after Tony Ngrube called Frederick Fasheun's attention to the vacuum in the west of a not having a socio-cultural group in Yorubaland assigned with the sole responsibility of securing and protecting its people from those who hide under the umbrella of Nigeria to decimate its people. The fight for the actualization of an independent ethnic nationality trapped in this expired, mere geographic expression on the map is what we should combine forces to achieve and not responding to lies and untruths posted on Nairaland by mongrels pretending to be Yoruba and Igbos. If you disagree with the point raised herein and still want to believe the Yorubas are not be trusted because you can not shake the thoughts instilled in your mind that makes you all think Yorubas are cowards race who will forever act as the backstabbing slaves licking the shoes of the caliphates in Sharialand as ruled by the fulani aliens, then please the article below:

*ARE YORUBA COWARDS OR SLAVES? ANSWERING THE IGBO'S QUESTIONS*

I do not really have any reason to make any senseless tribal stereotyping, I don't like doing it, and it pisses me off when people do it, but today, the rate by which some uncultured IGBO guys on the social media are going by calling YORUBA cowards needs to be addressed and sorted out.
As we love to say in Yorubaland that: a single wayward slave would always bring festered mess upon other slaves. Let us have some words together.

After the Civil War, the Igbo nation had always pitched all her tents with the Hausa/Fulani.

They voted for Shagari, and the Igboman called Alex Ekwueme was his running mate. They cohered and cohabited, we did not say a thing until Buhari and the gangs struck on the last day of 1983.

When Buhari came in 1984, he left Shagari in his comfort, in his house, but put Ekwueme in KIRI-KIRI. Did Igbo raise any eyebrow?

No.

Then who is a coward?

How many states did MKO win in the South East in '93? The Igbos simply voted for Bashir TOFA against MKO as they did against Awo in 79 and 83.

We did not call you cowards for your choice. No.

Before June 12 election was annulled by IBB, the Igbos were already seen going up and down in support of the ill-fated annulment.

Did we call you cowards or Fulanic slaves? No.

When Sani Abacha came, the Igbos took center stage in his government, the Igbos did not feel ashamed for dining and wining with the Hausa tyrants to make sure that the June 12 did not see the light of the day.

Did we fight or call IGBOS cowards? No.

The supposed Igbo's intellects like Nzeribe, professor Chukwumerije, Ojukwu and even Chinua Achebe were going everywhere for Abacha. Onyeka Nwenu and others sang praises to whitewash Abacha on the world's stage.

We did not call you cowards. We didn't.

One deranged Daniel Kanu put a One Million Match together, YEAA(Youth Earnestly Ask For Abacha), for no one but Abacha. The entire Igbo generations were for Abacha. We, Yoruba, did not call you cowards for your choice to wine and dine with the demons, we respected your choice.

And if you conclude in your hearts that we were cowards for voting Buhari, especially in 2015, then you must see yourselves as illiterates for not knowing that president Goodluck Jonathan and his goons were running the country's economy aground through corruption and inexperience.

You blamed Yoruba for your loss over the Civil War, now let me ask you: were Lagos State and Ọ̀RẸ̀ in Ondo State parts of Biafran territory?

During the Civil War, the major actors responsible for the victory of the ill-fated civil war were the Yorubas (Benjamin Adekunle, Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen Yinka Adebayo, Obafemi Awolowo etc).

Did you know that it was "ONLY" the Yorubas that stood by Ojukwu in his early days in exile despite committed a treason?

Did you know that "NO" Igbo leader, not even one, had the gut to visit Ojukwu in exile within the first seven years. Only Yoruba "Cowards" like Wole Soyinka, Tai Solarin and others were brave enough to visit and spend time with him in Abidjan.

Did you know that out of all his contemporaries it was only the Zik of Africa that "ran" abroad during the political turbulence of late 60s.

Did you know that if MKO Abiola was to be an Igboman in the case of June 12, Igbos wouldn't have gotten Obasanjo.

Did you know that despite the heroic welcome given to Ikemba upon his return from exile, the same people "rejected" him from becoming a senator less than a year after?

Yorubas are not cowards.

We are Compassionate Deep Thinkers who don't do things precipitously, and we see way beyond tomorrow and present.

We don't fight wars we can win with "brains" with hands. We don't make senseless noise just to attract needless attention or sympathy.

We are Warriors who use Great Ideas, Intellect and Strategies to fight wars.

We can decide to lose a battle just to win a war.
We are the most Sophisticated Microcosm of this entity called NIGERIA.

You must agree with this wholeheartedly.

We are the "Bolts and Nuts" that hold Nigeria together.

We are not brutes, we are not animals, we are not cowards..

I don't like doing ethnic stereotyping but my blood boils when some misled Igbos call us cowards for our political decisions.

For your information...., two of my brothers married your sisters, Chinyere and Nneka. I don't have any problem with the IGBO nation but the brutes amongst them must be called to order.


*Credited to:*
Oladele Idowu Joseph

slawormiir:
Damnnnnn niggarrrr
Isoright.....
Another overrated dumb fuckkk

molotough:
*Igbos you are not our enemies*, and when would the majority of you come to realise that the power which the landless fulani black arabs wield over us is not more but one. One which strength is inversely proportional to how well we continue to react to the numerous falsehood disseminated by the many provacatur they have planted within us. These provacatur are mongrels; those fulani-Igbos, fulani-Yoruba fulani-etc who are half-breeds with knowledge of our language, ways and culture. They do more damage from within than the real fulanis themselves. Why should we continue to hate, fight, quarrel when the way to successfully achieve the disintegration of this evil and failed so-called country? The fulani black arabs continue to do everything to ensure that the seeds of discord, hatred and enmity which they have planted among us continue to yield more a behavior that marks a disunited South. We the Yorubas, have always demand for the deamalgamation of this Zoo even long before you lots gave the fulani (_whom the British left the administrative control with (in order to keep the indeginous natives perpetually underdeveloped and backwards_) a reason to attack your people under the pretext of a civil war which is nothing but a genocidal war masterminded against your people. These same half-Fulani-Igbos mongrels misguided Ojukwu to invade Yorubaland when he should have logically taken his forces up to Kaduna to destroy where the largest and only armory the fulani-dominated army relied on, this intrusion into the West and Edo led to the Yorubas who have been sitting on the fence, to join the war as many Yorubas had to go enlist to be a soldier. All this led to the civil Biafran war. BEFORE all that's the Yorubas have always wanted out of the contraption, even long before and after Tony Ngrube called Frederick Fasheun's attention to the vacuum in the west of a not having a socio-cultural group in Yorubaland assigned with the sole responsibility of securing and protecting its people from those who hide under the umbrella of Nigeria to decimate its people. The fight for the actualization of an independent ethnic nationality trapped in this expired, mere geographic expression on the map is what we should combine forces to achieve and not responding to lies and untruths posted on Nairaland by mongrels pretending to be Yoruba and Igbos. If you disagree with the point raised herein and still want to believe the Yorubas are not be trusted because you can not shake the thoughts instilled in your mind that makes you all think Yorubas are cowards race who will forever act as the backstabbing slaves licking the shoes of the caliphates in Sharialand as ruled by the fulani aliens, then please the article below:

*ARE YORUBA COWARDS OR SLAVES? ANSWERING THE IGBO'S QUESTIONS*

I do not really have any reason to make any senseless tribal stereotyping, I don't like doing it, and it pisses me off when people do it, but today, the rate by which some uncultured IGBO guys on the social media are going by calling YORUBA cowards needs to be addressed and sorted out.
As we love to say in Yorubaland that: a single wayward slave would always bring festered mess upon other slaves. Let us have some words together.

After the Civil War, the Igbo nation had always pitched all her tents with the Hausa/Fulani.

They voted for Shagari, and the Igboman called Alex Ekwueme was his running mate. They cohered and cohabited, we did not say a thing until Buhari and the gangs struck on the last day of 1983.

When Buhari came in 1984, he left Shagari in his comfort, in his house, but put Ekwueme in KIRI-KIRI. Did Igbo raise any eyebrow?

No.

Then who is a coward?

How many states did MKO win in the South East in '93? The Igbos simply voted for Bashir TOFA against MKO as they did against Awo in 79 and 83.

We did not call you cowards for your choice. No.

Before June 12 election was annulled by IBB, the Igbos were already seen going up and down in support of the ill-fated annulment.

Did we call you cowards or Fulanic slaves? No.

When Sani Abacha came, the Igbos took center stage in his government, the Igbos did not feel ashamed for dining and wining with the Hausa tyrants to make sure that the June 12 did not see the light of the day.

Did we fight or call IGBOS cowards? No.

The supposed Igbo's intellects like Nzeribe, professor Chukwumerije, Ojukwu and even Chinua Achebe were going everywhere for Abacha. Onyeka Nwenu and others sang praises to whitewash Abacha on the world's stage.

We did not call you cowards. We didn't.

One deranged Daniel Kanu put a One Million Match together, YEAA(Youth Earnestly Ask For Abacha), for no one but Abacha. The entire Igbo generations were for Abacha. We, Yoruba, did not call you cowards for your choice to wine and dine with the demons, we respected your choice.

And if you conclude in your hearts that we were cowards for voting Buhari, especially in 2015, then you must see yourselves as illiterates for not knowing that president Goodluck Jonathan and his goons were running the country's economy aground through corruption and inexperience.

You blamed Yoruba for your loss over the Civil War, now let me ask you: were Lagos State and Ọ̀RẸ̀ in Ondo State parts of Biafran territory?

During the Civil War, the major actors responsible for the victory of the ill-fated civil war were the Yorubas (Benjamin Adekunle, Olusegun Obasanjo, Gen Yinka Adebayo, Obafemi Awolowo etc).

Did you know that it was "ONLY" the Yorubas that stood by Ojukwu in his early days in exile despite committed a treason?

Did you know that "NO" Igbo leader, not even one, had the gut to visit Ojukwu in exile within the first seven years. Only Yoruba "Cowards" like Wole Soyinka, Tai Solarin and others were brave enough to visit and spend time with him in Abidjan.

Did you know that out of all his contemporaries it was only the Zik of Africa that "ran" abroad during the political turbulence of late 60s.

Did you know that if MKO Abiola was to be an Igboman in the case of June 12, Igbos wouldn't have gotten Obasanjo.

Did you know that despite the heroic welcome given to Ikemba upon his return from exile, the same people "rejected" him from becoming a senator less than a year after?

Yorubas are not cowards.

We are Compassionate Deep Thinkers who don't do things precipitously, and we see way beyond tomorrow and present.

We don't fight wars we can win with "brains" with hands. We don't make senseless noise just to attract needless attention or sympathy.

We are Warriors who use Great Ideas, Intellect and Strategies to fight wars.

We can decide to lose a battle just to win a war.
We are the most Sophisticated Microcosm of this entity called NIGERIA.

You must agree with this wholeheartedly.

We are the "Bolts and Nuts" that hold Nigeria together.

We are not brutes, we are not animals, we are not cowards..

I don't like doing ethnic stereotyping but my blood boils when some misled Igbos call us cowards for our political decisions.

For your information...., two of my brothers married your sisters, Chinyere and Nneka. I don't have any problem with the IGBO nation but the brutes amongst them must be called to order.


*Credited to:*
Oladele Idowu Joseph

Odewaleadesoye:
Nollywood is coming up.

Well done guys!

This is very awesome.