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Chief Hubert Adedeji Ogunde D.Lit. (// ⓘ; 10 July 1916 – 4 April 1990) was a Nigerian actor, playwright, theatre manager, and musician who founded the first contemporary professional theatrical company in Nigeria, the African Music Research Party, in 1945.
In 2005, President Olusegun Obasanjo announced plans to privatise the National Theatre. This sparked controversy amongst Nigerian entertainers and playwrights like Wole Soyinka [3] On 30 December 2014, it was reported that the National Theatre has been sold to a Dubai-based conglomerate for the sum of 31.5 billion naira, and that the building will be converted to a duty-free shopping centre.
Before his start in professional theatre, Ogunmola was a schoolmaster in Ado-Ekiti. [3] At Emmanuel School, Ado-Ekiti, Ogunmola created school plays performed by students inside and sometimes outside the school. He formed his drama troupe, Ogunmola's Theatre Party around some of the pupils and his fellow teachers.
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Nwazuluwa Onuekwuke "Zulu" Sofola (22 June 1935 – 5 September 1995) [1] was the first published female Nigerian playwright and dramatist. [2] Sofola was also a university teacher and became the first female Professor of Theater Arts in Africa .
This unit was a re-organized local unit, which united the broader term 'Nigerian Film Unit' which had been established in 1949; [2] the function of this film unit was to produce documentary films and newsreels on local events of great importance, leading to the dominance of educative films in Nigerian theatres in the late 1950s [15] As at 1954 ...
Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi (13 April 1938 – 18 August 2000), [1] was one of Nigeria's leading playwrights and theatre directors. He has been called "a complete man of the theatre [2] – an actor, director, choreographer and designer – who created performance spaces, influenced by traditional architectural forms."
Channel 10 (Lagos) NTA Lagos is a Zonal Network Centre of the Nigerian Television Authority in Lagos , Nigeria's largest city. It was established in 1962 as the first station under the federal government - all other television stations in Nigeria were set up under the individual state governments.