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  • Johnbull calls for community engagement to tackle oil bunkering in the south-south region

    Johnbull calls for community engagement to tackle oil bunkering in the south-south region

    Honourable Gift Johnbull, the senior special assistant to President Bola Tinubu on community engagement (South-South), on Thursday, March 28, addressed the issue of oil bunkering and its impact on local communities in the South-South region.

    During the women in oil and gas stakeholders’ forum, Gift Johnbull highlighted the immense financial toll inflicted on Nigeria by illicit oil bunkering activities, revealing an annual loss exceeding N2 trillion.

    She also highlighted the significant hardship experienced by communities reliant on fishing and farming, who are now compelled to abandon their livelihoods due to oil spillages resulting from these activities.

    She stressed the importance of engaging locals in meaningful dialogue and addressing the adverse effects of oil bunkering on their health, environment, and economic well-being.

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    Gift Johnbull said: “For us to address the detrimental impact of oil bunkering on our communities, it is imperative that we recognize the loss annually incurred by Nigeria.

    “Beyond the financial toll, this illicit activity inflicts untold hardship, particularly on local communities reliant on fishing and farming. As we confront these challenges, empowering and involving these communities is paramount.

    “Through meaningful dialogue and acknowledgement of the adverse effects on health, environment, and economic well-being, we can develop targeted and sustainable solutions.

    “But, empowering local communities to participate in decision-making processes and grassroots initiatives is key to addressing the root causes of oil bunkering. Together, let’s build a safer, healthier, and more equitable environment for generations to come.”

  • Professor Johnbull shoots Season 6

    Professor Johnbull,  the very humorous television drama on national and cable television, has resumed shooting for a new season.

    The recording of Season 6 of the series  is taking place in  the Coal City ,  Enugu, which has since  become a busy and bubbly hub with the arrival of most of the actors and the production crew.

    From Friday March 16th when the first set of the shooting team arrived, the picturesque but quiet South Eastern city has livened up and the excitement around town is palpable as ordinary townsfolk begin to catch glimpses of their favourite actors and idols around town.

    One week after, almost all the cast and crew are on ground and shooting has started for the next 13 episodes.

    Professor Johnbull is sponsored by the telecommunications company, Globacom, and produced by Tchidi Chikere. The program is a satirical comedy set around the home of  the erudite but retired Professor Johnbull, acted by Kanayo O. Kanayo, who spends his retirement resolving community problems and educating his “proximate people” on social and moral etiquettes.

    The backdrop of the drama is Enugu and his home in the city has become a village square of sorts.

  • Glo-sponsored Professor Johnbull kicks against stigmatisation of ex-prisoners

    This week’s episode of TV drama series, Professor Johnbull, sponsored by national telecommunications company Globacom will be focusing on stigmatisation and discrimination against ex-convicts and people living with HIV and other diseases.

    Titled Stigma, the programme, which comes up on NTA Network, NTA International on DSTV Channel 251 and NTA on StarTimes at 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday enjoys the society to put an end to stigmatisation of ex-convicts. It also calls for timely and proper integration of ex-convicts to the community so that they will not return to the vices that led them to the prison in the first place.

    The erudite Professor, Nollywood’s Kanayo O. Kanayo, KOK, elaborates on the usefulness of having a reformatory prison system for ex-convicts as well as the need for robust public enlightenment campaign on how they can also be useful to the society if fully integrated.

    KOK, who advises people not see people living with HIV as outcasts, also urges every citizen to make conscious efforts to know his HIV status, adding that “there is no ordinary crime as every crime has a devastating effect”.

    A repeat broadcast of the programme comes up on Friday at 8.30 pm on the same TV channels.

  • Johnbull, Bovi clash in Glo Tv series

    It is the tenth episode of Glo-sponsored TV comedy series, Professor Johnbull, and the excitement keeps growing.

    The episode, billed for airing at 8.30 p.m. on NTA Network, NTA International on DSTV channel 251 and on Startimes today, promises to be another basket of laughter, drama and wisdom.

    Ace comedian, Bovi Ugboma, will add his patent humour to the drama as he makes a guest appearance on the show.

    Regulars like Kanayo O. Kanayo, the erudite, Bombastic Professor; Yomi Fash-Lanso, the nkwobi merchant; Mercy Johnson Okojie, Caro the maid; Queen Nwokoye, the Professor’s audacious daughter and Ogus Baba, the porter, will be on set to add flavour and excitement to the show.

    In a statement issued in Lagos yesterday, Globacom urged viewers to tune in to this episode 10 and discover new tricks technology geeks play with images of women.

    The company, which is the series’ executive producer,  stated that viewers will find the episode, titled: “Beautiful Girls”, funny, intriguing and thought-provoking.

    A sneak preview of the  episode showed that the saying  “pictures do not lie” may not always be true after all, especially in this age of image manipulations with the aid of computers.

     

  • How Professor Johnbull relieved current economic hardship

    How Professor Johnbull relieved current economic hardship

    THE axiom that Nigerians are the happiest people in the world received a boost in the Episode 4 of the ongoing television series, Professor Johnbull, when issues relating to the recent tomatoes and fuel scarcity were treated with the kind of sarcasm that erupted in tears induced laughter.

    Recall how the nation’s economy was partially grounded at the mercy of petrol black marketers, and how tomatoes became gold even in the raining season. This is the throwback that indigenous telecommunications company and producers of the drama series, Globacom, rekindled, albeit with soft knocks, in the last episode. In it, viewers were treated to a combination of rib-cracking plot and moral enlightenment, woven around realities on the streets and in different homes.

    The sitcom which airs on NTA network, Startimes and NTA International on DSTV has been gathering followership in torrents since it made debut four weeks ago.

    The show opened with the hotelier Udo Etuk from South-South Nigeria (played by Ime Bishop) who resorted to the town crier method of bell ringing to draw patronage to his hotel.

    Relaying the petrol scarcity incidents, Flash (Stephen Odimgbe) becomes an emergency black marketer of petrol in his community, while on the other hand, Chinwe Akabueze (Chidinma Ezeogbuka) buys three pieces of tomatoes for N500 only to get threats of beatings from her husband, Akabueze ( David Chukwumere) who also pledges to divorce his wife for alleged mismanagement of his hard-earned resources.

    When the erudite professor steps in and the grammar begins to flow, it is to remind one of Patrick Obahiagbon, a member of the House of Representatives. Professor Johnbull says of the economic crisis: “This is caused by global economic indices, not ineptitude or inefficiency of our leaders or the citizenry”. Then the wit: “if the price of tomatoes has risen, eat vegetables, masticate it and swallow it, he advised.”  What that price of tomato has put asunder, let love join together,” he declared.

    Even Mai Doya intervenes in the squabble of the Akubuezes. He does it with such comical seasoning, including a poor imitation of the Professor’s refrain “mon dieu” which he vocalises as ‘man Due’.

    Etuk’s mother-tongue was very thick in his expression and that is evident in his spoken English. But in a case of kettle maligning the pot for blackness, Etuk lambasts Olaniyi for calling professor with Yoruba accent.

    Episode 4 of Professor Johnbull is another comedy laced with lessons in economic survival and the evils of economic sabotage.  The professor counsels Nigerians not to engage in feasting on the woes of the masses, but urged them to be positive, share and synergise to overcome the high cost of living.

    The laughter and lessons continue on NTA network, Startimes and NTA international Channel 251 on DSTV.

  • PROFESSOR JOHNBULL FLAYS ‘SORTING’ IN EDUCATION SECTOR

    THE various manifestations of sleaze in educational institutions in the country is the topic examined in the third edition of Professor Johnbull, the Globacom sponsored TV drama series broadcast on Tuesday night on NTA Network, NTA International and Startimes.

    The third episode, titled Sorting Things, began with a riotous dialogue between Abednego, the recharge card seller and the peripatetic Janet Jumoke which incurred the wrath of Professor Johnbull who gave them a lecture on good neighbourliness in Government Reserved Areas in his inimitable bombastic manner.

    The opening scene was followed by a tryst between Janet Jumoke, Elizabeth and Caro during which Janet Jumoke sought to know the cream and aerobic exercise preferred by Professor Johnbull’s daughter, Elizabeth. Janet Jumoke exhibited the mannerism of fake ladies pretending to be “tush” with funny accents and euphemisms like saying “I need to do the biiig one” rather than simply saying she wanted to “go to the toilet.”

    In the next scene, the ambulant Janet Jumoke butts in on a teaching session where Carol, Professor Johnbull’s maid was learning English Grammar and made fun of Caro’s ludicrous efforts resulting in fisticuffs. Adjudicating on the tiff, Professor Johnbull ruled that Caro should receive tutorials from Janet Jumoke whom she beats up.

    Flash, the University student acted by Stephen Odingba taught Caro the principle of “sorting” by allowing her to watch how he gave money to one of his lecturers, Professor Gozie, acted by Chiwetalu Agu who directed students to pay N20,000 each into his “ministry.”  Flash tried to play smart by offering him N5,000 which Professor Gozie regarded as an insult and rejected, threatening to drive off and Flash begged him to receive the money so that he passes his course.

    In an indicative manner, Janet Jumoke reported Caro to Professor Johnbull for bribing her, which made the professor to ask “who taught you this evil?”  Professor Johnbull and his voluble daughter roundly condemned the practice of “sorting” in strong words using adjectives like “crass corruptibility”, “contextual plagiarism”, ”national misdemeanor” and “intellectual piriri- pararam”.

    Rounding off the episode, Professor Johnbull who claimed to have written a petition reporting Professor Gozie to the Senate of the University, highlighted the inimical effects of “sorting” on the society and asked everybody to join the fight against corruption in the ivory tower.