Nigerian Times

The movie adaptation of We Need to Talk About Kevin , the 2003 novel of American author Lionel Shriver is the winner of the best film at the 55th BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday. The novel won the Orange Prize for fiction in 2005. The British-American film described by Mike Collett-White as an unflinching portrayal of a mother's troubled relationship with her son featured Oscar winner Tilda Swinton, starring as Eva, Kevin's mother Kevin (Ezra Miller), 15, commits a massacre at his high school and goes to jail. Stunned, his mother, Eve (Tilda Swinton) can only react to tragedy when it begins to correspond with her husband, Franklin (John C. Reilly), who lives far and recalls the boy's troubled past. We Need to Talk about Kevin premiered at the last Cannes Film Festival, was directed by Scottish film maker Lynne Ramsay. It beat eight other films, including Russian Alexander Sokurov’s Faust that won the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. ...

Sam Loco Efe The famous Nollywood actor, Sam Loco Efe has been reported dead in his hotel room Sunday on location in Owerri, Imo State. He is regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time in Nigeria since he started acting in the early 1960s. He excelled in all the stages of his acting career in theatre, television and cinema. And he was known for acting excellently in English and the major local dialects in the most populous country in Africa, receiving many awards over the decades. May his soul rest in peace. The following is the biography of Sam Loco Efe from Edo World Sam Loco Efe is one of the most talented actors of contemporary Nigerian theatre. He has for many years distinguished himself as a rare talent for both Television (TV) and stage drama. I am Sam Loco from Benin in Edo State. Many people misplace my surname for a Delta man. Efe is a Benin name although the Urhobo people popularized it. Efe means Wealth in Benin as it also means in Urhobo but it means Cloth in Ibo. ...

Fake Prophet, Madam Boy’s Quarters, Iyobosa and other Nigerians In his gripping play, The Anger of Unfulfillment, Jekwu Ozoemene has captured the heart and soul of the disenchantment and discontentment of majority of Nigerians in his contemporary analysis of the Nigerian crisis. The title of his captivating book of three plays is deduced from the indignation of the victims of the lingering anomie plaguing Nigeria as desperate times call for desperate measures in the struggle for survival and a sense of belonging. The author gives us a naturalistic montage of glaring realities of the challenges of living and working in Nigeria under a corrupt government of kleptomaniacs. He takes us into the human trafficking ring of the fake Prophet, a tall bald and bearded middle-aged man with an imposing stature and his bootylicious assistant Madam Boy’s Quarters who must have been a Nigerian prostitute in Italy and their willing clients posing as the congregation of the fake duo posturing as minist...