Eastern Filmmakers Are Not Professionals'- Funsho Adeolu

Funsho Adeolu is not one to be toyed with, especially concerning professionalism.

 Nigerian Entertainment Today met with the 45-year-old actor at a movie location in Ikorodu, and he spoke candidly on why he has been absent from English movies, and why Yoruba movies and actors are not in the spotlight like their English counterparts.

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Let us start with your assessment of the Nigerian movie industry.

There has been a lot of improvement. At the moment, we don’t have a control agency, [which] is why we see some very funny things on TV, but when I started acting, the kind of cameras we used and technical know-how we had was nothing close to what we have now. We use very high-tech cameras now, the kind they use overseas. We are progressing.

Eastern Nigeria Can't produce President with five states

THE theoretical case for the emergence of a Nigerian president of Igbo extraction has been eloquently established beyond any reasonable doubt. The economic case is persuasive; the legal case, which is a derivate of the constitutional principle of federal character, is incontrovertible; the political case is self-evident and the moral case is utterly compelling.  But the establishment of the case at the intellectual and theoretical plane is quite clearly insufficient to meet the rigorous demands of our ambition. Genuine ambition is contingent upon action.