Category: Media – TV & Radio

Osita Osadebe

Entertainment – Music, History – Social, Media – TV & Radio, Music – Old, Music – Others, People

Stephen Osadebe Osita; musician credited with contributions to the growth and development of highife as well as re-inventing the music. Osadebe was the first highlife musician to bring in a Cuban sound,… read more
Jerry Gana

Government, Media – Print, Media – TV & Radio, People, Politics – Public Service, Popular Culture

Jerry Gana; senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Chairman, defunct Mass Mobilisation for Social and Economic Recovery, MAMSER, Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Information and Culture, Cooperation and National Orientation.… read more
Mike Bamiloye

Media – TV & Radio, Music – Gospel, People, Religion

Mike Bamiloye; evangelist, producer and film director, is Nigeria’s best known maker of Christian- themed films. A graduate of the Osun State College of Education, Bamiloye has thrived in movie-making despite lacking… read more
Murtala Sule

Media – TV & Radio, Nollywood – General, Nollywood – Yoruba, People

Murtala Sule: Film maker and presenter of NTA 7 popular Sunday television programme, Lagbo Video. Murtala left secondary school in 1973 and joined LatdaFilms to learn film making. Murtala Sule went to… read more
Ajibola Ojesola

Entertainment – Nollywood, Media – TV & Radio, People

Ajibola Ojesola; Popular television presenter and actor, started acting as a student of the Polytechnic of Ibadan. Ajibola joined a drama society at the University of Ibadan. Then, he would leave my… read more
Zebulun Ejiro

Entertainment – Nollywood, Media – TV & Radio, Nollywood – General

Zebulun Ejiro; Filmmaker who held sway in the Nollywood from the late 1980s to the next two decades. Ejiro brought about the renaissance of cinema in Nigeria when in 1997, he made… read more
Joke Silva

Entertainment – Nollywood, Media – TV & Radio, Nollywood – General, People

Joke Silva; Celebrated actress of the Nollywood. Joke commenced acting at the University of Lagos as part of the cultural centre, rehearsing plays directed by Prof. Bode Osanyin. She also performed at the… read more
Christopher Olusola Kolade

Business, Human Resources, Media – TV & Radio, Music – Others, Music – Pop

Christopher Olusola Kolade; described by his biographer as a subject that embodies the healthier, sterner, firmer fibre of the nation’s soul, Kolade was from 2002 to 2007 the Nigerian High Commissioner to… read more
Segun Olusola

Entertainment – Media, Media – TV & Radio

Segun Olusola; Creator of the most popular and the longest running drama programme of the Nigerian television; The Village Headmaster. Born March 18, 1935 in Iperu-Remo, Ogun state, Olusola had his education… read more
Ben Murray-Bruce

Entertainment – Media, Entertainment – Pop Culture, Media – TV & Radio, Politics – Public Service, Property

Benedict Murray-Bruce; Entertainment entrepreneur, music promoter and director-general of the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA under President Obasanjo. A man of tremendous style and charisma, Ben Murray-Bruce’s era witnessed a flurry of unprecedented… read more