Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho comes to Nigeria to visit the The Kwara Football Academy (KFA) in north-central Nigeria. Tickets for the match between a KFA selected team versus Belgium's Royal Antwerp FC junior team have gone on sale for N1,000,N1,2000, and N3,000.
The match will be played on Saturday, July 4th. Jose Mourinho will be on the KFA bench acting as technical adviser for the Kwara Football Academy team.
Tickets are available at Ilorin branches of Intercontinental Bank, GTBank and Zenith Bank.
Nollywood Babylon is a gritty documentary that sheds light on Nigerian cinema and shows how it's fast becoming one of the biggest movie industries in the world. The documentary recently had the privilege of being screened at this years Sundance Film festival.
New York Times today released a rather interesting review of the movie:
"While Americans sweat the fate of independent film at places like Sundance or South by Southwest, movie-mad Nigerians flock to the outdoor electronic markets of Lagos to buy the latest offerings from Nollywood.
Inaugurated in 1992 with “Living in Bondage,” an exploitation number about witchcraft and social climbing distributed on VHS, the contemporary Nigerian film industry is one of the world’s largest, according to “Nollywood Babylon,” a documentary by Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal.
The film profiles the explosive success of this truly populist cinema. The filmmakers provide a cursory survey of the evolution of Nigerian cinema — from colonial origins and decline during the economic hardships of the 1970s and ’80s to its resurrection as a D.I.Y. video phenomenon — before focusing on the contemporary scene.
We follow Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, a 37-year-old director at work on his 157th feature (take that, Fassbinder!) and learn of the stories and themes, characteristic of Nollywood movies, that propel his success: cautionary tales, rags-to-riches narratives, broad comedies and dramatic thrillers full of sex, money, religion and violence.
The documentary concludes with a provocative, if shallow, examination of the impact of evangelical Christianity on Nigerian movies. The exploitation and wish-fulfillment ethos of Nollywood, Mr. Addelman and Mr. Mallal also imply, has a narcotic function on the culture, arresting its development from “tradition to modernity.”
Such questions call for a deeper, more rigorous treatment than they are given here, though, for all its limitations, “Nollywood Babylon” serves as an intriguing primer."
The videos shows Nigerian scammers getting tricked by American news network abc. The news team then take it one step further by travelling to Nigeria and getting the scammers arrested.
