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Joke Silva
Joke Silva , MFR is a Nigerian actress, director, and businesswoman. In 1998 she had a major role, starring opposite Colin Firth and Nia Long in the British-Canadian film ''The Secret Laughter of Women''. In 2006, she won "Best Actress in a Leading Role" at the 2nd Africa Movie Academy Awards for her performance in ''Women's Cot'', and " Best Actress in a Supporting Role" at the 4th Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2008 for her performance as a grandmother in ''White Waters''. Silva is married to actor Olu Jacobs. The couple founded and operate the Lufodo Group, a media corporation that consists of film production, distribution assets, and the Lufodo Academy of Performing Arts where she serves as Director of Studies. She is also the pioneer managing director of Malete Film Village, in association with Kwara State University. On 29 September 2014, Silva received recognition as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic, one of Nigeria's National Honours, at the Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of The Federal Republic
The Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) is one of two orders of merit, established by the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1963. It is senior to the Order of the Niger. The highest honours where the Grand Commander in the Order of the Federal Republic and Grand Commander in the Order of the Niger are awarded to the President and Vice-President respectively. The Presiding Judge in the Supreme Court and the Chairman of the Senate are qualitate and ex officio Commander in the Order of the Niger. The Nigerians have followed the British example in the form and structure of the Order. There are also post-nominal letters for the members of the Order of the Niger. There is a Civil Division and a Military Division. The ribbon of the latter division has a small red line in the middle. Grades The order has four grades: * Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR) * Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) * Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
4th Africa Movie Academy Awards
The 4th Africa Movie Academy Awards ceremony was held on 26 April 2008 at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria, to honor the best African films of 2007. The ceremony was broadcast live on Nigerian national television. Special guest of honor at the event was Hollywood actress Angela Bassett. The nominees were announced to a large gathering of African film industry representatives, African actresses & actors on 19 March 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa by African Movie Academy Awards CEO Peace Anyiam-Osigwe. Winners Major Awards The winners of the Award Categories are listed first and highlighted in bold letters. Other Awards The winners are written first and emboldened and not all categories had winners. Best Film African Diaspora *Through the Fire (film) *Bleeding Rose Best Drama (Short) *Kingswill – Sirrie Mange Entertainment *Magical Blessings *Sky line Best Animation * ''The Lunatic'' – Ebele Okoye Best First Film by a Director *Daniel Adenimokan (Specia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kingmaker (2003 Film)
A kingmaker is a person who can influence the selection of a monarch, without themself being a candidate for the (perhaps) figurative throne. Kingmaker may also refer to: Games * ''Kingmaker'' (board game) (1974), set in (English) Wars of the Roses ** ''Kingmaker'' (video game), a 1994 strategy video game based on the board game * '' Neverwinter Nights: Kingmaker'', a 2004 expansion pack for BioWare's ''Neverwinter Nights'' * '' Pathfinder: Kingmaker'', a 2018 video game by Owlcat Games Television * ''King Maker'' (TVB) (2012), TVB drama * '' Kingmaker: The Change of Destiny'', a 2020 South Korean television series * "Kingmaker" (''Law & Order'') (2006), episode of NBC drama * "The Kingmaker" (''The Blacklist'') (2014), episode * ''King Maker'' (ViuTV) (2018-), ViuTV survival reality show series ** ''Good Night Show - King Maker'' (2018), the first season of the series Music * Kingmaker (band) (1990s), British indie rock * ''Kingmaker'' (Tami Neilson album), a 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bimbo Akintola
Bimbo Akintola (born 5 May 1970) is a Nigerian actress. Early life and education Akintola was born on 5 May 1970 to a father from Oyo State and a mother from Edo State. She studied at Maryland Convent Private School in Lagos State. She proceeded to Command Day Secondary School, Lagos. She earned a degree in Theater Arts from University of Ibadan. Early life A family of six includes Abimbola as the third child. She began portraying a student alongside her peers for the school's end-of-year theater events, encouraged by her mother's encouragement. Her enthusiasm for performing intensified as she participated in more plays, eventually becoming second nature. She was raised in Maryland, Lagos, where she received her elementary education at Maryland Convent Private School and her secondary school at Command Day School, also in Lagos. She completed her undergraduate studies in theatre arts at the University of Ibadan. The actress used to perform every weekend with the late Jaiy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Major
English studies (usually called simply English) is an academic discipline taught in primary, secondary, and post-secondary education in English-speaking countries; it is not to be confused with English taught as a foreign language, which is a distinct discipline. An expert on English studies can be called an Anglicist. The discipline involves the study and exploration of texts created in English literature. English studies include: the study of literature (especially novels, plays, short stories, and poetry), the majority of which comes from Britain, the United States, and Ireland (although English-language literature from any country may be studied, and local or national literature is usually emphasized in any given country); English composition, including writing essays, short stories, and poetry; English language arts, including the study of grammar, usage, and style; and English sociolinguistics, including discourse analysis of written and spoken texts in the English lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webber Douglas Academy Of Dramatic Art
Webber may refer to: *Webber, Kansas, a US city *Webber Township, Jefferson County, Illinois, USA *Webber Township, Lake County, Michigan, USA *Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, USA *Webber (surname) Webber (/ˈwɛbər/) is an English occupational surname meaning '' weaver''. Etymology Webber is an occupational surname referring to, "a maker of cloth". The ending "er" generally denotes some employment, examples include Miller and Salter. Th ..., people with the surname ''Webber'' See also * Weber (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Child College Obalende
Holy Child College is a Catholic secondary school for girls in Lagos, Nigeria. It was set up on 9 April 1945 by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus (SHCJ) and run by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos. It is located in South-West Ikoyi on the cusp of Obalende and Keffi; next to its brother school St Gregory's College, Lagos. Holy Child College consists of three years of Junior Secondary School (JSS) and three years of Senior Secondary School (SSS) as part of the 6-3-3-4 educational system in Nigeria, and the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations, allowing eligibility for graduation. History The Reverend Sisters of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus came to Africa in 1930 with their first school being set up in Calabar. The Society founded Holy Child College, Lagos in 1945 at the invitation of Archbishop ''Leo Taylor'', who wanted a good Catholic secondary school for the girls in his archdiocese. The school started on the 9 April 1945 with two classes of 15 g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Herbert Pearse
Samuel Herbert Pearse, F.R.C.I. (born November 20, 1865) was a pioneer Nigerian shipper and produce exporter of Sierra Leone Creole and Egba heritage. He established the first Hotel in Lagos in 1907. He was also a member and secretary of the Lagos branch of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society. Life and career He was born on November 20, 1865, to the family of Reverend Samuel Pearse of the Church Missionary Society. He attended C.M.S. Grammar School, Lagos for secondary education and started work as an apprentice in 1883. In 1888, he teamed up with Sierra Leonean businessman, I. Thompson and the two began trading in Lagos and London. However, both men parted ways in 1894. Pearse soon started his own trading account in Calabar and Lagos and also became an agent for the African and Gold Coast Trading Company.Walter H Wills, R J Barrett. The Anglo-African Who's who and Biographical Sketchbook, G. Routledge & sons, 1905. p 127. He made extensive wealth trading in palm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Phillips (bishop)
Charles Phillips was a member of the Church Mission Society (CMS) based in the Lagos Colony who became Bishop of Ondo State, Ondo. Early career Charles Phillips was the son of an Egba people, Egba Saro people, former slave also called Charles Phillips who returned from Sierra Leone to work as a catechist at Ijaye. Phillips gained his secondary education at the CMS Training Institution at Abeokuta. He was taught by G.F. Buhler, who served from 1857 to 1864. For twelve years Phillips was catechist at Breadfruit Church in Lagos. Phillips was ordained as a Native deacon on 5 March 1876, with Daniel Coker and Nathaniel Johnson (clergyman), Nathaniel Johnson. In 1873 John Hawley Glover, Captain Glover, the Governor of Lagos colony, helped to restore the deposed king of Ondo to his throne. In gratitude, the king invited the CMS to establish a mission in his city. The mission was opened two years later. In January 1877 Phillips took charge as pastor at Ondo City, Ondo. Pastor Conversion o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazilians In Nigeria
Brazilians in Nigeria, Amaros or Agudas consist of the descendants of freed Afro-Brazilian slaves who left Brazil and settled in Nigeria. The term ''Brazilians in Nigeria'' can also otherwise refer to first generation expatriates from Brazil. Starting from the 1830s, many emancipated Africans who had been through forced labour and discrimination in Brazil began moving back to Lagos, bringing along with them some cultural and social sensibilities adapted from their sojourn in Brazil. These emancipated Africans were often called "Aguda" or "Amaro", and also included returnees from Cuba. As of today there are less than 200 Brazilian citizens registered within the consulate in Nigeria. History At the height of the Transatlantic slave trade in West Africa, many prisoners of war or those kidnapped for sale in slave markets were sold to Europeans and transported across the Atlantic. Estimates of the number of slaves from the Gulf of Guinea to Brazil totaled about 300,000 in the ninete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saro People
The Saro, or Nigerian Creoles of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were Yoruba Liberated Africans emancipated and initially resettled in Freetown, Sierra Leone by the Royal Navy, which, with the West Africa Squadron, enforced the abolition of the international slave trade after the British Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act 1807. Those freedmen who migrated back to Nigeria from Sierra Leone, over several generations starting from the 1830s, became known locally as ''Saro'' ''(elided form of Sierra Leone, from the Yoruba sàró''). Consequently, the Saro are culturally descended from Sierra Leone Creoles, with ancestral roots to the Yoruba people of Nigeria. A related community of people were likewise known as ''Amaro'', and were migrants from Brazil and Cuba. Saro and Amaro also settled in other West African countries such as the Gold Coast (Ghana). They were mostly freed and repatriated slaves from various West African and Latin American countries such as Sierr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abuja
Abuja () is the capital and eighth most populous city of Nigeria. Situated at the centre of the country within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it is a planned city built mainly in the 1980s based on a master plan by International Planning Associates (IPA), a consortium of three American planning and architecture firms made up of Wallace, Roberts, McHarg & Todd (WRMT – a group of architects) as the lead, Archisystems International (a subsidiary of the Howard Hughes Corporation), and Planning Research Corporation. The Central Business District of Abuja was designed by Japanese architect Kenzo Tange. It replaced Lagos, the country's most populous city, as the capital on 12 December 1991. Abuja's geography is defined by Aso Rock, a monolith left by water erosion. The Presidential Complex, National Assembly, Supreme Court and much of the city extend to the south of the rock. Zuma Rock, a monolith, lies just north of the city on the expressway to Kaduna. At the 2006 ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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