The uncensored, talk programme, anchored by veteran journalist, author and publisher, Femi Akintunde-Johnson, will air, from 7am to 9am WAT.
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The uncensored, talk programme, according to a press release is anchored by veteran journalist, author, and publisher, Femi Akintunde-Johnson, will be on air Saturdays, from 7 – 9 am WAT.
The Coach, Femi Akintunde-Johnson, said this in a statement he personally signed and made available to The Eagle Online.
FAJ and his two friends, Olakunle Sikiru Bakare (or Kunle Bakare) and Isiaka Mayowa Akinpelu (or Mayor Akinpelu), founded FAME on a conviction that the time was ripe for an authoritative tabloid capable of giving all those glossy and glamorous foreign tabloids a run for their money – they didn’t want it to play in the local league! And although their collective credentials were never in doubt as to their ability to run a newspaper, the huge investment in ambition made colleagues predict to FAJ, Kunle and Mayor that FAME would not last six months.
Abati and Pastor Babatunde Bakare, another alumnus of Lisabi Grammar School, Abeokuta, joined other dignitaries to fete FAJ at his 60th birthday held virtually on October 30.
Akintunde-Johnson believes his action, and similar others, could help redirect deserving attention to the fading culture.
It was scheduled for 5pm on June 15, 2021.
The 300+-page book is filled with enriched information, personal recollections, detailed fact-checking of many of the major works of Nigeria’s movie and theatre stars across the ages.
FAJ will be the first to confess that he’s a “reporter for life”; consequently, Reflections, subtitled Salute to Pioneering Creativity & Perseverance, is his attempt to honour and memorialise the folks who felt their way blindly along until they uncovered the elephant that is today the Nigerian movie industry – aka Nollywood. Toss the provision of “data” and “original stories” about these key players into the mix and a book is done. Written in a conversational style, clearly a stylistic choice to draw in all eyeballs, Reflections can be considered a natural outcome of Akintunde-Johnson’s decades-old dance with entertainment in Nigeria. From reporter at The Punch Newspapers to editor and co-founder of publications like Fame and Encomium, to being the brain behind the nation’s leading music and movie awards, the author has never been far removed from the people whose lives he chronicles in this book.
Unlike Ogunbiyi, the man we admirably call FAJ did not set out to produce a reference document of academic dimension (even though he is more than competent to do that with enviable success), yet his 166-page e-book provides the historical trajectory that Ogunbiyi gives drama for the emergent film industry.
Nigeria is celebrated across the globe as being amongst the three biggest movie-making nations in the world. The United States through Hollywood, India via Bollywood, and Nigeria with her irrepressible Nollywood are the acclaimed three leading countries in the art of telling stories with moving pictures. Femi Akintunde-Johnson, popularly known as FAJ, in his book: Reflections on Nigerian Movie Industry: Salute to Pioneering Creativity and Perseverance,” offers a list of the pioneers and players of the dramatic and filmic arts that made the Nollywood phenomenon possible.
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It would have been heart-warming if Ms Genevieve Nnaji had kept sealed lips. It would have been gracious if frazzled selectors had promptly apologized, and speedily assumed responsibility, and offered to resign (or feigned it). It would have been a shocking binge of fresh air if our social media influencers and critics had done a little research before crashing into the current controversy surrounding America’s Oscar Awards’ treatment or maltreatment of our dear lovely Lionheart. It would have been great to see how the supposed second-placed work which is predominantly rendered in an indigenous language would have fared. It would have been uplifting if after five years of “searching” for the right movie to represent Nigeria at the Oscars, we didn’t bungle it.
I wanted a magazine that from page one to the last, you can’t put it down. A magazine that will be error-free. A generally good and interesting magazine