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The Village Headmaster is one of the most iconic Nigerian TV series of all time. Created by Olusegun Olusola and produced by Dejumo Lewis. Originally a radio drama series. It ran for 2 decades making it the longest-running series aired on the National Television Authority (NTA).

The Village Headmaster which featured greats such as the late Justis Esiri, Dejumo Lewis, Funsho Adeolu, and Enebeli Elebuwa. The TV series focused on topical issues such as "inter-ethnic harmony, problem-solving and intervention in public affairs, health education and family enjoyment" according to The Nation.

Cast and characters
•Dejumo Lewis as kabiyesi Oja's traditional ruler
•Femi Robinson "Ife Araba" as headmaster (replaced Mukoro)
•Justus Esiri as headmaster (replaced Robinson)
•Clara Olushola as headmaster's wife (Clara Fagade)
•Albert Egbe - Lawyer Odunuga
•Ibidun Allison as Amebo, village gossip.

•Jab Adu as Bassey Okon supplies store owner
•Funso Adeolu as Chief Eleyinmi
•Joe Layode - Teacher Garuba
•Counselor Bamisebi
•Albert Kosemasi as Gorimapa
•Counselor Balogun
•Chief Afilka

•Gorimakpa
•Mr Ogene
•Comas Aderibigbe Ali
•Boniface
•Okoro
•Iyanda
•Lakunle Ojo
•Charles Awurum

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The Village Headmaster

The Village Headmaster (later renamed The New Village Headmaster) is a Nigerian television drama series created by Olusegun Olusola and produced by Dejumo Lewis. Originally a radio drama series, the programme was Nigeria’s longest-running television soap opera showed on the NTA from 1968 to 1988 and starred Ted Muroko as the original headmaster.

The television series was developed by Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, and is considered one of the early successes of television drama in the country.
In 2021, a new revival of the show was announced, with Chris Iheuwa in the lead role of the headmaster.A number of actors from the earlier series are also returning.

The Village Headmaster was set in the fictitious  Yoruba village of Oja, with plot lines dealing with social problems and effect of government policies in Oja. The television series was produced after Nigeria gained independence, and was the first major television drama with an ensemble cast from different ethnic groups.

 Nigerian Pidgin was mixed with standard English and Yoruba as the Oja residents' language of choice, with most scenes occurring in the Oloja of Oja's palace, the headmaster's school, and Amebo's palm wine shack.
Cast:
-Ted Mukoro as Headmaster #1, an old-fashioned school headmaster
-Femi Robinson as Headmaster #2 (replaced Mukoro)
-Justus Esiri as Headmaster #3 (replaced Robinson)
-Dejumo Lewis as Kabiyesi, Oja's traditional ruler
-Elsie Olushola as headmaster's wife (Clara Fagade)
-Albert Egbe as Lawyer Odunuga
-Ibidun Allison as Amebo, village gossipJab
-Adu as Bassey Okon, supplies store owner
-Funso Adeolu as Senior Chief
-Joe Layode - Teacher Garuba.
Charles Awurum Albert Kosemasi as Gorimapa.

Production:
The drama was produced in 1958 and aired on radio for six years before its format transitioned into a television series on NBC TV Lagos (later NTA). A full series began in 1968 with an initial order of 13 episodes and ran until 1988. The original recordings are not known to have survived. The 1964 master-script by Segun Olusola was published by Ariya Productions in 1977 with a cover drawing by cartoonist Josy Ajiboye.

2021 Revival:
In a 2013 interview with the Nigerian Tribune, Tunde Oloyede, who produced 364 episodes of the series stated: "Before the Ambassador (Olusola) died, we had been working on bringing back The Village Headmaster in three possible formats. On film, on stage, and back to television."

In 2021, three decades after the short-lived 1991 revival, a new series of The Village Headmaster was announced. Filming had commenced in 2020, and trailers were released on the NTA and YouTube. The revamped series is a collaboration with the NTA and Wale Adenuga Productions,[15] and is expected to air in April 2021.

As majority of the previous cast are either deceased or retired, most roles have been recast, notably with Chris Iheuwa who is the fourth actor in the lead role. Demujo Lewis reprises his role as the village's chief, as do Ibidun Allison (Amebo), Dele Osawe (Teacher Fadele), Dan Imoudu (Dagbolu), and Melville Obriango (Teacher Oghene). New actors include veterans Rachel Oniga (Iyalode) and Jide Kosoko (Eleyinmi), and Monica Friday (Tega Abaga).

Popular culture:
The Village Headmaster is responsible for coining several terms now part of Nigerian culture. "Amebo" is used to refer to rumourmongers; in 2019, actress Ibidun Allison appeared as her Village Headmaster character Amebo in an advertising campaign for telecommunications company Globacom.The term "Gorimapa", after Kabiyesi's servant, is a common nickname for follicly-challenged men, and "Okoro" is used to describe Igbo stereotypes.

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When NTA ballz...

Indomie generation will never know or understand.

Nostalgic feelings about those good old days. Gone are those good days when we watched educative home movies on home grown local TV stations.

Good old memories.Let's help these legends when they are still alive

I still remember the drama 😁

Biafra war ended in 1967
And we Yorubas were launching tv series in 1968
No wonder no tribe takes us serious

When life is so easy in Nigeria

See wetin balablu don cause, people are now missing their past lives.

Good old days

But now is better

When life was easy then...I even remember reading it's novel way back in primary school...

"Iyanda is now a lawyer"

Good one but me no watch am

The world has moved on abeg

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Is the latest edition still on air

Good

Racoon:
Indomie generation will never know or understand.

Didn't know this indomie generation really existed till yesterday. I was talking to a junior at HQ and small talk led to me using Ice cube to give him an example ,
He didn't know who Ice cube is!! I went on and asked him if he knew who Easy E or Big daddy kain are and he didn't honestly know them ...

He had never heard of battle of the planets cartoon or fraggle rock either. .

I gave up then

gone are those good old days when u watched educative home movies on local TV not all these scammer like Gotv, DSTV u have in Nija.Those days when Nepa go allowed u watched ur Samanja jeje, tale by moonlight, foreign movies like Bruce Lee etc on ur black and white box TV.. Only the Rich have VHS that look like ur travelling box back then.When Adults wan watched that tin (withheld. Only the legend go sabi) dem go send u to go buy bread/Coke for them and 🔐 🚪 and window ,.When they finished ,dem go opened door come slotted one Indian film like dat for kids .Nija sweet those years

bennybuhari:
Good old memories.Let's help these legends when they are still alive

Most if not all them in that set are dead

Tolu181:
Biafra war ended in 1967
And we Yorubas were launching tv series in 1968
No wonder no tribe takes us serious

Please, which Biafra war ended in 1967?

I read your comment and I began to question my knowledge of Nigerian history. I want to believe you erroneously wrote that, but please correct it so you don't misinform the younger generations of nairaland users.

lexy2014:


Most if not all them in that set are dead

we all for this NL go die one day

NTA still using same background to give everyone eye problem in 21st century

How can defunct NBC turned mumu NTA no fit preserve recordings as Historical records which kind people we get sef

Tolu181:
Biafra war ended in 1967
And we Yorubas were launching tv series in 1968
No wonder no tribe takes us serious

History should obviously be re-introduced in the curriculum. Did Biafra war end in 1967 or 1970? Note also that the war only affected the old Eastern region and part of Mid-Western region and it did not affect Yorubaland because they were pushed off when they tried to advance into Ore.

Tolu181:

Biafra war ended in 1967
And we Yorubas were launching tv series in 1968
No wonder no tribe takes us serious

Money must be made.

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Make Actors/Actresses & professional showbiz people nor feed their families , recoup their financial losses during the war again?🙄 Must we all be Doctors? Engineers ? Traders & polithicians?

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Let Actors & professional show biz people breathe.. thats how they put food on their table.

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But still, not to stiffle creativity for professional artists, there is no financial guarantee that a music or tv series about the war in 1968, would automatically sell more & rake in more profits than a creative work of art with good appeal .

Whatever rocks their boat, The aim of any businessman, is to make profit (legally). & money must be made, bills must be paid.💰Biko Let the artists & professional show biz people breathe.

livebyday:


Didn't know this indomie generation really existed till yesterday. I was talking to a junior at HQ and small talk led to me using Ice cube to give him an example ,
He didn't know who Ice cube is!! I went on and asked him if he knew who Easy E or Big daddy kain are and he didn't honestly know them ...

He had never heard of battle of the planets cartoon or fraggle rock either. .

I gave up then

It's a shame NTA is still very backward in terms of broadcasting, being one of the first tv stations in Africa.

livebyday:


Didn't know this indomie generation really existed till yesterday. I was talking to a junior at HQ and small talk led to me using Ice cube to give him an example ,
He didn't know who Ice cube is!! I went on and asked him if he knew who Easy E or Big daddy kain are and he didn't honestly know them ...

He had never heard of battle of the planets cartoon or fraggle rock either. .

I gave up then

you dey call Rap legends give Indomitable generation 😂🤣😂🤣,they only know Portable,Davido and Lil wayne

unfortunately, what u watched nowadays nah confam Nonsense. U can predict wetin ho happen next.Imagine a ghost crossing and wiped his face with handkerchief,

VOsimhen144:
When life is so easy in Nigeria

Iffa hear...

Fela and Osadebe dey complain in their songs for nothing?

Villa?