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By Nsikak Nseyen, Fikayo Olowolagba
The entertainment industry in Nigeria was hit terribly in the year 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic which shook the world earlier in the year.
The pandemic affected everyone in the entertainment industry in Nigeria, ranging from actors to artists.
Tours got cancelled, Cinemas were shut, shows were moved to 2021. However the famous reality show, Big Brother Naija, BBNaija and other controversies brought life into the entertainment industry.
DAILY POST brings you the top nine issues in no particular order:
1. Funke Akindele’s arrest: The Nollywood actress, popularly known as Jenifa, was arrested in April for flouting COVID-19 protocols when she hosted a birthday party for her husband Abdulrasheed Bello, aka JJC Skills.
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Chico Ejiro: One last journey by a content creator
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By Okoh Aihe
THERE was one appellation I could never call him, even grudgingly, Mr. Prolific. But that never adulterated my respect for him. Mr. Chico Ejiro who exited the stage on Christmas day morning was a movie maker of note, a guy with a mission which, as it has turned out now, had little time to accomplish it. It was the frenetic activities cramped between life and permanent departure that made some of my friends to stamp that rubric on him.
A few years ago, at an Association of Movie Producers, AMP, event in Lagos, executed by the restless Zik Okafor, I saw Chico for the first time in about ten years. We looked at each other hard in the face, with mutual suspicions diminished over the years.
Farewell, Jimanze Ego-Alowes, aka “Wiseman From The East” (1957-2020) By Nduka Otiono
An audacious and original thinker and public intellectual par excellence, Jimanze wished that his humble missives be given more exposure than they can get in Nigeria.
by Nduka Otiono
Dec 30, 2020
And Jimanze Ego-Alowes passed on before we could hatch his next-level proposal. A prolific author, he described himself on his Twitter handle as a journalist, poet and writer with a passion for new knowledge and human development. He was the founding Director of The Brace Institute, a Lagos-based think tank; and founder of a fledgling civil society advocacy group, Minority Rights Defense Initiative, MRDI; and Publisher of The Stone Press Ltd., with which he reissued his remarkable 2006 book, How Intellectuals Underdeveloped Nigeria and Other Essays, originally published by the University of Michigan Press. Prior to eventually dying from liver cancer at 63, fans and friends had begun to worry
Farewell, Jimanze Ego-Alowes, “Wiseman from the East”, (1958-2020), By Nduka Otiono 5 min read
…Do go gentle into that good night, Wiseman from the East, a.k.a. “Ahiazuwa,” a philosophical Igbo expression about the world as a marketplace with which he signed off his column in
The Sun newspaper. We will continue to treasure your bold and provocative works, which include the seven books you cited in the…email to me…
Jimanze Ego-Alowes died from liver cancer at 62, before we could hatch his next-level proposal. A prolific author, he described himself on his Twitter handle as a “journalist, poet and writer with a passion for new knowledge and human development.” He was the founding director of The Brace Institute, a Lagos-based think tank; founder of a fledgling civil society advocacy group, Minority Rights Defense Initiative (MRDI); and publisher of The Stone Press Ltd., with which he reissued his remarkable 2006 book,
On Christmas day, reports of the shocking demise of Nollywood legend, Chico Ejiro topped headlines.
Also known as Mr Prolific,
Chico Ejiro was one of the most popular filmmakers of Nollywood s second generation (between the late 90s and early 2000s). The famed film director once revealed that he had produced and directed no less than 80 films, some of which include Nollywood classics.
To celebrate Chico Ejiro, Pulse lists five classic films that established the truly prolific filmmaker s career.
1. Full Moon (1998)
Starring
Regina Askia, Pete Edochie, Sola Fosudo, Kanayo O Kanayo, Full Moon is one of the earliest classics directed by Chico Ejiro. The thriller s first and second parts were released in 1998 to positive reviews especially for Askia s performance as a possessed teenager.