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Natural way to get rid of emergency issues

You might have been considering on how to generate money that will take care of your hospital bill and many other health related issues. Worry no more, after reading this write-up you will save a lot money which you may invest in other things.

1.poison from snake bite: just take two spoons of honey and mix with bitter kola(grinded) and give to the person.

2. Dry skin: take cucumber,carrot,and avacado pea,mash it one by one and collect the water,mix together all the collected water and any cream(optional) then apply as normal cream.

3. Reactions from taking over dose of any drug:Not to panic, just give coconut water to the person it will make the drug non functional

4. Rashes on the skin: cut guava leaves,pawpaw leaves and lemon grass.cook together and use to bath for one week and wait for result.

I will be revealing more hacks to life in my next article,so check always for more post.

Rico swavey was involved in motor accident

 

Rico Swavey is actually the coolest and the most easy going guy to come out of Big brother. No weapon fashioned against him shall prosper. God will heal him.

EPL: Haaland impacts the football history after scoring hat-trick in Man City's win over Man Utd.

Manchester City striker, Erling Haaland, on Sunday left a mark on the world subsequent to scoring a hat-trick in his side's premier league 6-3 win over Manchester United together.

Man City crushed Man United at Etihad Stadium, because of three goals each from Haaland and Phil Foden.

Antony and Anthony Martial scored for Erik ten Hag's men against Pep Guardiola's side.

Notwithstanding, Haaland goals against Man United implies the Norway striker has now turned into the very first player in the Premier League history to score a hat-trick in three sequential home games.

The 22-year-old had scored a hat-trick against Nottingham Forest, Crystal Palace and presently Man United together.

Haaland will presently expect to proceed with his great showcase for Man City when they have Copenhagen in the Champions league on Wednesday.

The history of Nollywood as a film industry

 

Nollywood history overview

 The creation of nollywood started in the 1960s. It was when the first nollywood movies were being created by historical filmmakers such as Ola Balogun, Hubert Ogunde, Jab Adu, Moses Olayia and Edidie Ugboma. They are regarded as the pioneer of Nigeria filmmakers. These pioneers started the Nigerian movie industry in a country full of citizen that looked to Hollywood for their entertainment.

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Hubert Ogunde according to Britannica.com reviews that he was a pioneer in the field of Nigerian folk opera. In 1945 he founded Ogunde theatre which was the first professional theatrical company in the nation, because of his donations to the industry, he is often applaud as the father of Nigerian theatre.

The term "Nollywood" was coined by the new York times journalist Norimitsu Onishi in 2002, when he observed film making activities in Lagos, Nigeria. The term mirrors two of the most notable areas in film production, Hollywood in us, and Bollywood in India's Bombay.

The term nollywood refers to "nothing wood" which means creating something from nothing.

Nollywood divided it's audience with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in UK. NTA was the sole broadcaster of media content back then before it stopped producing media content in 1990, which sprout out talent from actors, writers, director and producers who cut their teeth in the NTA environment and who had profited from state-sponsored training, albeit for television production.

 

Nollywood as a unique film industry:

Nollywood has remained a unique film industry since it's creation. The early stories were United with by popular theme such as love, conflict with mother-in-law and marriage. 

They reflect the colourful culture,relative affluence and the architecture in our Nigerian societies, remaining true to authentic, believable storytelling.

In the early days, movies like living in bondage, violated Glamour Girls, Nneka the pretty serpent and Rattlesnake were financially very successful. In this recent times, movies like Omoghetto, merry men (the youruba Demons) is as well successful.

The sole reason Nollywood was created 

Nollywood was created to make it possible for Africans to view film made by follow African on a huge scale. Which encouraged intra African tourism, trade, traditions, habits and culture across the world. They cultivated a monolithic African audience as a result has become the world's second largest film industry.

Biography of Hubert Ogunde/education/career/photos.

 Family background

Sir Hubert Ogunde was born on July 16, 1916 in Ososa, near Ijebu-Ode, ogun state, Nigeria to Mr. and Mrs. Jeremia Ogunde. His hometown is Ile-Apena, also in Ogun state. Ogunde’s father was a Baptist while his mother and maternal grandmother were respecters of the African traditional religion. However, after Ogunde’s birth, Eunice Ogunde was converted to Christianity. Ogunde was raised and taught about African culture and demagogues; he also stayed shortly  in his grandfather’s compound where he was exposed to Ifa and Sango (Yoruba traditional god of prognostication and thunder respectively) celebrations and so he ended up being dandly prejudice by both the Christian and traditional African religion.

Ogunde mother during his marriage.

Education

Ogunde’s education lasted between 1925 and 1932. He was admitted into Saint John’s primary school, Ososa at the age of nine for his elementary education. After this time, he left for Saint Peter’s Faji School in 1928 where he was till 1930. He went to Wasinmi African School, Ijebu-Ode between 1931 and 1932 which marked the end of his formal education. During 1933 to 1941, Ogunde was a school teacher at Saint John’s Primary school, Ososa and he taught primary school for eight years. He was also a devoted church organist who unionized his first band as a teacher at Oke-Ona United School, Abeokuta. During this time, he developed his enthusiasm and improve his special skills for opera and folklore.

Ogunde joined police force

While on a holiday in Ibadan, Ogunde joined the Nigeria Police Force in 1941 where he was eventually appointed as a constable. In 1943, the police force posted him to Ebute-Metta where he joined an African initiated white garment church. In 1945, he founded an amateur drama group called the African Music Research Party. Ogunde soon resigned from the police force in order to focus on acting and also due to what he considered a misconduct of the colonial regime within the ranks of the force.

It should also be noted that Ogunde married twelve wives. His first wife, Adesewa, was probably his most famous wife as she played prominent roles in some of his performances especially in the 1960s. Unfortunately, she died in a ghastly vehicle accident on the way to a performance in 1970.

Career

Ogunde’s first contact with performance art was actually as a young member of Egun Alarinjo and Daramola Atele’s travelling theatre group during his elementary school days. However, his theatre began under the patronage of the church in 1944; he produced his first folk opera, The Garden of Eden and Throne of God which was commissioned by the Church of the Lord, Lagos in order to aid contributions to a church building fund. The play meshed realism and dramatic action in the acting, singing and dancing; a pioneering approach at that time which fueled to the play’s success. At the Alake of Abeokuta’s (prominent King in Ogun State) request, Ogunde performed The Garden of Eden again at the Ake Centenary Hall. The success of this encouraged him to write more operas and so he wrote and co-directed Africa and God in 1944, Isreal in Egypt in 1945 and Nebuchadnezzar’s Reign and Belshazzar’s Feast in 1945. Many of Ogunde’s early works frowned on colonialism, such as his much talked about 1945 opera, Worse than Crime, which was a political play infused with Yoruba dance and ancient folk songs.

Ogunde imitable theatre

Ogunde’s African Music Research Party which would be later known as Ogunde Theatre Party was the first contemporary professional theatre company in Yorubaland. Ogunde’s group was distinguished by his promotional approach such as advertisements and posters and his use of a proscenium as opposed to the traditional round stage. In November 1945, he wrote Strike and Hunger, inspired by the general strike by the labor unions and later on went professional with the production of his Tiger’s Empire which premiered on March 1946. Tiger’s Empire condemned colonial rule in the pre-independence era and marked the first time in Yoruba Theatre that women were billed to appear in a play as professional artists. Following the success of this play, he wrote Darkness and Light and Devil’s Money and he will also write the opera Herbert Macaulay as a tribute to life and death of the late nationalist.

In 1947, Ogunde and his wife, Adesewa, travelled to Lagos to make contacts for the promotion of his shows in England. Though they were unsuccessful in making the right contacts, they seized the opportunity to take waltz and tap dance classes which Ogunde would later infuse with the traditional Batakoto dance and Yoruba Epa dance. In 1948, Ogunde went on a tour to the major Western Nigeria cities with his group and also had stops at Abeokuta, Ibadan, Oyo, Ede, and Ogbomosho. However, he had clashes and encounters with the police when he toured Northern Nigeria due to the political context of Worse than Crime and Tiger’s Empire. Ogunde’s first tour outside Nigeria was not well received by Ghanaians and this was largely due to their inability to comprehend the Yoruba language and the style of his opera. This obvious disconnect caused a setback to Ogunde’s reputation and finances. An unfazed Ogunde returned to Ghana with another variety program called Swing the Jazz which became a huge success and redeemed his reputation. Shortly after Ogunde introduced English language into his plays as dialogue in 1950, Ogunde wrote and performed Bread and Bullet which was based on a coal miners’ strike in Enugu which resulted in the shooting of 22 people. Empire condemned colonial rule in the pre-independence era and marked the first time in Yoruba Theatre that women were billed to appear in a play as professional artists[/mks_pullquote]He also reproduced his play Black Forest and Bullet and Bread introducing English and Yoruba dialogue with African music played by both Western and African instruments. With the release of the Islamic morality story, My Darling Fatima (1951) and humorous pieces Portmanteau Woman (1952), Beggar’s Love (1952) and Princess Jaja (1953), Ogunde delved into producing plays with dialogue which were either spoken or sung. During this period, Ogunde’s company changed from the Ogunde Theatre Party to the Ogunde Concert Party.

In the 1960s, Ogunde produced two important plays: Yoruba Ronu (meaning Yoruba people ponder) and Otito Koro (meaning truth is bitter) which echoed the political events in Western Nigeria leading to the the state of emergency announcement in 1963 by S.L Akintola who had broken away from the western region’s Action Group to form the Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP). Ogunde’s company was banned from the region due to this political upheaval for two years. In reaction to this, Ogunde produced Otito Koro to protest against the injustice of his ban. The ban was lifted in 1966 by Nigeria’s new military government and in that same year, the Ogunde Dance Company was formed. With the birth of the Western Nigeria Television, Ogunde was able to reach a broader audience without travelling and produced the plays Ayanmo (meaning Karma) and Mama Eko (meaning Lagos Mama) for an eager television audience.

In 1967, Ogunde’s Theatre had grown into a formidable institution and he was asked to represent the Nigerian Government at Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada. The theatre also performed at the famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York city. In 1968, Ogunde’s theatre was invited to perform at the International Llangollen Eisteddfod, North Wales and Fairfield Hall, Croydon, Great Britain. Ogunde also produced Ire Olokun (meaning goodness of the river goddess) and Keep Nigeria One. In 1969, Ogunde took a 45 member dance troupe abroad and performed extensively in Britain and Europe with a special production called Oh Ogunde and also produced Obanta (first king in the Ijebu Kingdom who reigned in the 14th century) and Ogun Pari (meaning the War is over). Later on that year, Ogunde will also perform at the Municipality Milano, Italy.

In the late 1970s, Ogunde joined the trend of film making and did an adaptation of one of his stage plays, Aiye (meaning life). The film premiered in 1980 and addressed Yoruba spirituality, witchcraft and traditional notions of light and darkness. After this was Jaiyesimi (meaning let the world rest), a sequel to Aiye followed by Aropin N’Tenia (meaning Humans will think the worst).  His fourth film was Ayanmo which was adapted from the play dedicated to his late first wife, Adesewa. In 1990, Ogunde briefly featured in the movie Mister Johnson, an American drama film based on the 1939 novel by Joyce Cary. The movie, set in 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, tells the story of Mister Johnson – a learned black man who doesn’t really fit in with the local natives or the British. Sadly, while on set for this production, Ogunde got very ill. He didn’t recover from this illness and passed away on April 4, 1990 at Cromwell Hospital, London.

Sir Hubert Ogunde’s plays were usually a reflection of the prevailing political climate in Nigeria and illustrated the major issues and conflicts of government authorities. He was an outspoken contemporary political commentator who believed that liberation could only be achieved by a united national front. He was an original thinker who was ahead of his time and always found ways to better his craft. Ogunde was the founder and first president of the Association of Nigerian Theatre Practitioners (ANTP) and his demise left a huge void in the performance theatre industry. He also paved the way for women in Nigerian theatre because he provided a platform for women that offered them the opportunity to perform in plays as professional artists.

At home, Ogunde was widely recognized for his contribution to Nigerian theatre and his advancement of African dances. In 1983, he was awarded the Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (OFR) by President Shehu Shagari but rejected the honor citing his stance against government corruption. Ogunde would receive the honorary degrees of Doctor of Literature and Doctor of Letters by the Obafemi Awolowo University and University of Lagos respectively in 1985 and 1986. A few year later, he will accept the Excellence Award in the field of Drama and Film Production from the government of Ogun State.

 

Ogunde awarded by the white people 

Not only was he admired by Africans, Ogunde also was recognized abroad. After a 1986 rendition his play, Destiny, at the Commonwealth Festival of Arts in Edinburgh, Scotland, the Scots were noted to have described the play as an “epic of its time”.

Forgive me mum, Reginal Daniel son knees as he begged for spoiling toy

 

Regina Daniels, left fans gushing over a video of her son, Munir, apologising for being naughty In the video, the little one showed remorse by kneeling down and even prostrating after spoiling a toy his mother bought. Munir told his mother he was sorry and begged her to forgive him, and the video has trended on social media. 

Popular Nollywood actress, Regina Daniels, has shared one of the cute parts of motherhood with her two-year-old son, Munir. Taking to her Instagram page, the movie star shared a video of herself scolding the little boy for destroying a toy she just bought. Skip Ad In the video, the little boy was seen showing remorse as he apologised to his mother for being naughty. Regina Daniels' son pleads with her for forgiveness after destroying a new toy. Photos: @regina.daniels Source: Instagram Munir told his mum that he was sorry as he continued to plead with her to forgive him. Not stopping there, the little one knelt down and even prostrated to show the extent of his remorse.

He, however, left the onlookers laughing when he switched from saying ‘forgive me mama’ to saying ‘I forgive you mama’. Regina eventually told Munir to hug her to show that he was sorry and forgiven. The actress accompanied the video with a caption explaining what went down.

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