Popular TV Series Village Headmaster Returns With New Cast

The re-launched popular television series show, The Village Headmaster, will go on air on Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) from Sunday, April 24. The Nation Reports. 

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this during the re-launch of the TV series at the NTA headquarters in Abuja.

Mohammed said the show still maintains its fictitious Yoruba village, Oja, while it was woven around the lives of the villagers from royalty to education and so on.

The minister, who was represented by the Director-General of NTA, Mallam Yakubu Mohammed, said the TV series would air from 8 pm to 9 pm every Sunday on NTA, then 9 pm to 10 pm every Wednesday on AIT, and 8 pm to 9 pm every Friday on WAP TV.

The minister said: “The Village Headmaster was an addiction for many television viewers across Nigeria. Lovers of the sitcom rushed home by 8 pm every Sunday to watch it. Each of the stories of the series was gripping and every episode was memorable.

The programme was the first major show since the country gained independence and was also the longest soap opera in production for many years until 1984.

“Several efforts were made to revive the programme. The one that readily comes to mind was in 2001 when NTA made a concerted effort to reintroduce The Village Headmaster. The viewing public was seriously excited.

 “That excitement was dashed. Little did we know that those hiccups were the ingredients that would eventually give a lasting hope for the series.

“And so on Friday, September 4th, 2020 history was made when the NTA led by my humble self and Chief Wale Adenuga, CEO of Wale Adenuga Productions signed an MoU that officially marked the beginning of a partnership to bring

“The Village Headmaster” is back on television. Immediately after, the two organizations started work in earnest leading to the commencement of production.

“As of today, many episodes of the programme are in the can and ready for the pleasure of the viewing public,” he said.

Mohammed however lamented the absence of some of the members of the original cast who have passed on and therefore could not witness the rebirth of the iconic series.

He said prominent among them is Ambassador Segun Olusola, former Nigeria’s Ambassador to Ethiopia, who created the series as a staff of the then Western Nigeria Television – WNTV, now NTA Ibadan.

The re-launched show, according to the minister, still features some of the founding members of the series, notably Kabiyesi Dejumo Lewis, Ibidun Allison (Amebo), Dan Imodu (Dagbolu), Dele Osawe (Teacher Fadile), to mention but a few.

Other prominent members of the new cast include Chris Iheuwa, Mr. Latin, Funky Mallam, Jide Kosoko, Omo Ibadan, Okele and Fathia Balogun.

Others are Rycardo Agbor and Yemi Shodimu. There are also Binta Ayo Mogaji, Jide Alabi, and many others.