Hello Guys,
PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO READ THIS POST TO THE END, I KNOW PEOPLE RUN AWAY FROM LONG POST LIKE PLAGUE.


I'm currently working on a script for a soap opera. Matter of fact, out of the intended 30 episodes, I've written over 20. I've even outlined the story from EP 01 to EP 30. The story concludes at EP 30, but that doesn't mean the story ends there. In fact, the story can continue as long as I can write because it circles around the lives of five non contemporary characters that are friends and are unique. And I introduce some really weird characters in a couple of episodes.

I don't want to sound pompous or blows my own trumpet, but to say the least, I know the story is different from what we are accustomed to in Nigeria. I've shown my friends, and they are all excited and screaming 'this is good', 'this is hot', but like I said, they are my friends; I don't expect them to say otherwise. I do not doubt their judgment, but I know they won't want to hurt my feelings and also, none of them is a writer or a scriptwriter, so a junk might probably look like a blockbuster no them. No pun intended!

This now brings me to one of the reasons I'm here. I need someone who can read the script, and give me a sound and accurate judgment. At no cost, that is. But the underlying problem to this 'help' is; how can I be sure the person won't steal my idea? I don't mean to hurt anybody's feeling, but we all know how things go in this country. I don't want to be a victim again.

Number two, how do I get a good producer to just read the script?

I've been googling my heads off, but I've not come up with anything. It seems it is easier to get your script to Hollywood, thanks to their numerous agents. And if I may add this: A Hollywood agent just requested for my feature length movie script that I submitted a query letter for. It's nothing yet, but, considering those agents get scripts from all over the world in thousands every day, for my script to even be considered is a boost for me. Hopefully, if my script is good enough for her, something will happen.

But this soap opera is for the Nigerian community only. At least, it is based on a Nigeria settings and environment.

Why making some little research, I came across a producer named Fidelis Duker. His works are good, and everything I've read about him indicates that he is more concerned about the development of Nollywood rather than making some crappy movie and making profit. Now, I didn't say he's not interested in profit.

I feel this man will be interested in my work. But the problem is getting to him. I've used all my skills on google to try and find a way to contact him albeit unsuccessful. Twitter; he has a profile, but he hasn't twitted a single tweet. Facebook; I'm sure that was opened ghostly for him, only achievements and no info on how to contact him.

So, I need the following help;
1- How can I get somebody to read my script and give me an accurate judgment on it? I'll prefer a very strict movie critic. *Who won't steal my idea*.
2- Does anyone know how I can get across to Fidelis Duker?
3- Are they any other producers that I can try to contact? Suggestion of names.
4- Does anyone have any other suggestion for me?

I attached a random scene to this post for anyone interested in helping out. Kindly note that the attached is just a scene, a single scene, and it's the only scene I could find that won't give away too much info. I'm sorry if I'm been uptight, but we've all heard the adage, 'once beaten' before. If anybody is interested to help out with the reading/editing and he/she is unsure if the work is worth his/her time, I can write a full episode containing all the characters, but it won't follow the story line, it will be  a stand alone, and I will upload it.

ADDENDUM 1
I wrote the script formatted in standard Hollywood format. I don't know if Nollywood style is different. But the Hollywood style is great. With a balance mixture of action and dialogue, a page equals one minute of shooting time. It's great for timing!

ADDENDUM 2 (For people who download the attachment)
In the attached, did anybody notice how intelligent that woman, Tess is? She stylishly avoided all Max's question without him noticing. She's 46 y/o though. Max is one of the five friends. Can anybody say the type of human being he is?
What do you think of the dialogue?



I'm on my phone ryt nw, so I cant upload the attachment to this post.

Dude's only flaw is verbosity. But at least we know his stands in Nigerian issues. He's not afraid to air hìs mind. Can you say this of the other house members who can barely construct a simple and CORRECT English, but have perfected the art of embezzling?

For all ye criticizing him, can you tell me the name of the person representing your constituency in the Senate? No. U wonder why? He will never say anything as long as his pockets are getting soiled with our treasure.

How will Nigeria be great? Your profile pics pretty testify to that!

Please, forgive my bluntness on this matter. Nigerian politicians must rank among the most pitiable lot in the world. I will endeavour to substantiate this assertion. For most of our politicians, life begins and ends with controlling power and wealth. Nothing else is important. Not even the future of their children and many generations unborn would make them think and work as visionaries.

The average Nigerian politician hates his country with a passion. He lacks positive ambition. That is why his performance score sheet remains at F-Failure and he still believes he’s God’s own gift to mankind. He is unrepentantly shameless. That is why the roads leading to everywhere are in such a dreadful condition and he just can’t be bothered.

Except you live on a different planet, you must have noticed the total collapse of infrastructure in our country. That is even an understatement. The story is virtually the same everywhere you turn. You begin to wonder how our politicians can have the audacity to walk around the streets in broad day light to ask for your votes in such a commanding manner. How on earth can the ruling party at the centre and many of the junior parties at the state levels, even have the effrontery to call themselves political parties when all they do is to rig their cronies into power and share the booty immediately after?

The Nigerian politician loves the good things of life that he finds in Las Vegas and Sun City, but as far as he’s concerned such heavenly beauty is not desired or deserved by his own country. He has enough money to fly to any part of the world with his harem of women and a multitude of children. So what does it really matter if our country parades some of the filthiest cities in the world?

Yet no politician in the world travels aimlessly like the Nigerian politician.

He stays in the choicest hotels. He knows the juiciest restaurants in any world capital. And he lavishes handsome cash on fashion in the most exclusive shops for the super rich. No designer in the world can intimidate him. He’s a very familiar face on Rodeo Drive. All the estates agents know him in Malibu and Marbella. He loves to walk the hills of San Marino. The Swiss watchmakers close down their shops as soon as the oil-sheikhs of Nigeria saunter in with their latest madams.

I’m sure many Nigerians must have been asked if they knew this or that politician as soon as they walked into certain boutiques in London, Paris and Milan. You must have seen their pictures plastered on the walls of fame of restaurants in New York. There is no country where the rarest cognacs and champagnes are drowned with the rapidity we find in our country. Not even in France where some of the world’s finest vineyards are situated. You’ll be shocked to discover that the average white man has never heard of Dom Perignon or Cristal. But that is what our men of power pop with a vengeance in our part of the world.

The good things of life are supposed to be the reward for hard work. Not here. As they say, monkey dey work, baboon dey chop. The more you work, the less you earn. Most of our citizens have given up hope that when tomorrow comes, life will be better. They have come to see politics as a curse rather than a blessing. You only need to open the internet to see the level of despondency and crude bitterness.

Everyone and anyone is a rogue. No one who has a semblance of comfort is regarded as a friend of the people. Suddenly, success has become a burden and an albatross indeed. You can no longer work and hope to enjoy the sweat of your labour in bliss. But can you really blame the people. They have inadvertently come to the realisation that it is almost impossible to make it here without the hand of Satan dangling somewhere. How can you now claim to have done it the God’s way when most of your contemporaries have tried and failed? Such is the pestilence that has bedevilled our land.

The Nigerian politician is a rare breed. He has the heart of a lion. No amount of money is too little or too big to pilfer. He must make something from every transaction. Didn’t they say there was no free lunch in China? There is no free deal in Abuja and all the state capitals of Nigeria. Kickback is the key word. He must collect and collect until he begins to vomit.

Since we already agree that he’s shameless, he doesn’t have to hide the fact that he’s a thief. He runs back to his village to open his new sprawling mansion, and to take his latest wife. He would announce his arrival at the village entrance by the long stretch of his powerful convoy with his bodyguards, usually paid for by you and I, firing staccato shots in the air to tell the hapless people of the coming of the latest rogue from the city. After that brief visit, he’s not likely to come around again until the next festive season or when one of his usually aged relatives dies and he comes to declare surplus, as the cliché goes, and when his kinsmen find the opportunity to partake in the orgy of food and wines.

Everything has been bastardised by the Nigerian politician. He’s convinced that there is only one way elections can be won. You must be in the political party that controls the apparatus of power and coercion. Election is taken as a war, and those who can muster enough weapons from the armoury would always carry the day.

The theory no matter how bizarre is not without foundation and justification. In truth, that is the main attraction of the People’s Democratic Party in Nigeria. The icing on the cake is that practically all the retired warlords in Nigeria are members of what is arrogantly described as the largest political party in Africa. One often wonders how they arrived at such thoughtless claims in a country where these irritants have ignorantly frustrated every attempt to conduct credible census and register citizens for identity cards.

It is difficult to find a Nigerian politician today who’s a true statesman. Everyone reverts back to ethnic jingoism as soon as politics is mentioned. None wants to be a nationalist or a true Nigerian. Zoning or federal character supersedes the Constitution. Merit has been sacrificed at the altar of greed and selfishness. And no Nigerian politician has been able to challenge the malady of doing the same things repeatedly while expecting a different result.

Nowhere is this madness so palpable than in what is called the Governors’ Forum, where every governor portrays the image of an Emperor. The latest craze is the belief that no one can unseat an incumbent Lord of the Manor. Even where the governor is about to complete his tenure, he believes he must install the next governor from amongst his lackeys.

The Nigerian politician does not even communicate with the people. He’s closer to his Alsatian dogs and German Shepherds. The Nigerian politician has murdered the principles of separation of powers. His deputy while in office is nothing but a glorified housekeeper. The duty of the deputy is to do what he is told, just like a robot. Any deputy who steps out of bounds is told in clear cut terms who dictates the tune. Those who survive are those who confess and atone for their sins of omission and commission early enough. The obstinate ones were promptly kicked out, sooner than later.

Not even the legislature is spared this fiendish treatment. Any speaker of a state parliament who carries his legislative autonomy on his head is soon disgraced out of office. And from many examples we’ve seen, there are always ambitious colleagues hovering in the wings to take over.

The governors now know who the boss of all bosses is. You must have noticed how they are filing to Abuja with their traditional rulers in tow to pay homage to their new Master. Gone is the swagger of those last days of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua when they treated Jonathan with such mean disdain. Today the game has changed. Most of the governors now look like penitent school boys. We all have lessons to learn from all this.

The question on everyone’s lips is: Are we going to continue with this musical chairs forever? What is the way forward? I will attempt the answer on this page soon. No country has ever lived perpetually in stupidity. Something must give.

Pendulum By Dele Momodu

Email:[email protected], 07.17.2010

Hmmnnn..What exactly is this kind of thread doing here? Somebody lost his/her brain?

It is shame some people are still dreaming about this sham! I won't say much, cause there is no need to bother much. You still don't realise that the problems of Nigeria are Nigerians. Whether Biafran, Yoruban, or Hausawan or whatever. We still carry the same bad blood!

Well, this saddening issue is getting more rampant this days especially with the increase in AIDS in our society, and the bad pun about it is that our A*#S Nigerian law is protecting the women. if you sue a woman to court for molesting you, you are going to jail my brother! the law is blind when it comes to this. Cause the law is based on 'penetration'! It is so bad that you'll be charged with rape if you are sleeping with your wife, and just at the last second when you re about to erupt, and she ask you to stop...-we all know how close to impossible that is-, if you don't stop, you are guilty of rape!!

I guess the not-so-core Northern Nigeria are extremely friendly with the core North. (I'm hiding my hat under my palm!)

This is a case of Dumb and Dumber!

Facebook maybe...Naijapal is too much forum for me!

Thats the estimate of all Nigerian Political Leaders..From President to Councillors!
Not the number of corrupt Nigerians...

Believe me,Nigeria is no near any change at all.
We cant start counting Nigeria's problem..No Road! No Water! No Electricity! No Job! So, what do we have? Corruption. We keep talking,no Action! Its time we rise up to the Challenge..
Our youth have lost hope.They have started following in the step of the adult.. They've shown us force in forms of corruption,let us show them force back! How can we allow the fate of over 140million people to be marshed upon by lesser than 25,000 corrupt leaders!
Our leaders have shown us that they believes NOT in negotiation,what they need is force.They abandoned Niger Delta untill  ND start kidnapping people! Now they want negotiation! Same with ASUU...
Nigerians are loosing hope,lets be the source of hope for them!
I need just few over 300 PATRIOTIC people,and we'll embark on a masterplan to change Nigeria once and for all!! Plz inbox me or send a mail to [email protected] if you are truly interested in a change for Nigera.If we continue talking and doing nothing,we'll be getting worse everyday. Ghana was down before,they lost their value..They were broke and they ran to Nigeria..We pursued them away after sometimes..sic GHANA MUST GO BAG..they went back to their country and rebuild it,today Nigerians are running to Ghana..Inbox me now and lets plan!

Believe me,Nigeria is no near any change at all.
We cant start counting Nigeria's problem..No Road! No Water! No Electricity! No Job! So, what do we have? Corruption. We keep talking,no Action! Its time we rise up to the Challenge..
Our youth have lost hope.They have started following in the step of the adult.. They've shown us force in forms of corruption,let us show them force back! How can we allow the fate of over 140million people to be marshed upon by lesser than 25,000 corrupt leaders!
Our leaders have shown us that they believes NOT in negotiation,what they need is force.They abandoned Niger Delta untill  ND start kidnapping people! Now they want negotiation! Same with ASUU...
Nigerians are loosing hope,lets be the source of hope for them!
I need just few over 300 PATRIOTIC people,and we'll embark on a masterplan to change Nigeria once and for all!! Plz inbox me or send a mail to [email protected] if you are truly interested in a change for Nigera.If we continue talking and doing nothing,we'll be getting worse everyday. Ghana was down before,they lost their value..They were broke and they ran to Nigeria..We pursued them away after sometimes..sic GHANA MUST GO BAG..they went back to their country and rebuild it,today Nigerians are running to Ghana..Inbox me now and lets plan!

Akuta, im happy to see this post,because im actually recruiting member for Change Nigeria Initiative..I believe the time has due for action.We've done enough talk!!
I think we need to discuss at length on this..

You can email me [email protected]

See how de mouth of all una dey smell shit (?) (!) ;@

Most Bicycle are better than some girls..Guys..Just count the no of disappointments you've receive from bicyle..Sorry, women

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Guy,grin,define joke for me?

Why bicycles are better than
Women...
Bicycles don't get pregnant. You
can ride your Bicycle any time
of the month. Bicycles don't
have parents. Bicycles don't
whine unless something is really
wrong. You can share your
Bicycle with your friends.
Bicycles don't care how many
other Bicycles you've ridden.
Bicycles don't care how many
other Bicycles you have.
Vote for Why
bicycles are better than
Women...

PLEASE....HOW CAN I REQUEST FOR MY SPECIAL NUMBER IN ETISLAT NETWORK...I went to thier website...but it was vague