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Yul Edochie
Nollywood actor Yul Edochie has written an open letter to President Bola Tinubu. He recently expressed deep concern over the critical issues of escalating insecurity and unbearable economic hardship currently plaguing Nigerians.
Outlining various issues that he believes require immediate intervention, he revealed that his letter is a direct challenge to the government’s main promise of renewed hope.
According to him, bandits have been gradually taking over the whole country, and they cannot keep spilling the blood of Nigerians at will without consequences.
He stated that Nigerians being kidnapped in numbers on a daily basis is a trend that cannot be allowed to continue.
Noting that the cost of living is becoming a joke, he declared that the suffering is presently unbearable for Nigerians.
Edochie concluded by directly asking the government if this is the renewed hope they promised the people.
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Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.
The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.
Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.
Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.
