Did you really attend the rank of Samanja, i.e. Sergeant Major or Warrant Officer?
No. I was a Staff Sergeant when I left the service. For those familiar with the NTA in the 80s and 90s you happened to be a regular face in most of the plays, hence Samanja became a household name in both NTA and FRCN. http://nigeriafilms.com wonder why such high profile drama is no longer seen on NTA. What really happened that you hardly feature? Well, you know, we have not been getting the usual support we are supposed to get. Secondly, we have not gotten sponsors now. In those days there were so many companies that sponsored our programmes. The last sponsor we had was PTF. After the Fourth Republic came into power PTF was abolished. That was the end of my programme. So, lack of sponsorship accounts for why you have not been seeing Samanja now. Apart from corporate organisations, are there no wealthy individuals in the North that can sponsor the programme so that you keep entertaining the people? Well, the problem we are having in the part of the country is that, unlike in the South,
