• IBB survives life threatening disease and endorses digital portrait of his life
• Obi Emelonye to produce the epic
A weary thing is sickness and its pains. It almost snuffed out the life of Ibrahim Babangida and cast his family in the vicious grip of inconsolable grief. But thanks to providence, the former military president has bounced back to vitality. It could be recalled that news of his debilitating ailment hit the social space months back like an unconquerable ogre.
Yes, Babangida is back in the country after a medical trip to Switzerland. Babangida, who arrived the Minna International Airport on Saturday evening, left the country on December 18, 2016. However, are we going to call it a visual biography or money making venture as Obi Emelonye, award-winning Nollywood producer and director, has announced a new movie “Badamasi: Portrait of a General”, a work on former military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.
The filmmaker announced the project on Tuesday in Lagos. He said “Badamasi”, which would be released later this year, would paint “intimate portrait’’ of IBB, the General that ruled Nigeria from 1985 to 1993”. Emelonye is popularly known for directing films like “Last Flight to Abuja”, “The Mirror Boy” and “Onye Ozi”.(NAN)
