The film also has secured a distribution deal for Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Gyang who has continued to beef up his profile partnered with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as director on “Wetin Dey”. Equally, he produced and directed the “Finding Aisha” series for which he won the Young Producer Award at the last edition of The Future Awards.

Chike Ibekwe, whose project “Letter to the Prof” is slated for the Babylon International Assisted Funds, has continue to add more feathers to his cap. The young Nigerian film maker won the Best Film Prize award at the just concluded 14th Ecrans Noire Film Festival in Cameroun.

Call it a season of political appointments for artistes and you may not be wrong. Nollywood actors are beginning to take the front seats in the scheme of things as they join forces with the powers-that-be to steer the ship of state.

According to the writer and director Mr. Azubike Erinugha, The Champion Sportsman is a Nollywood movie realised in an unusual Nigerian-German co-production. “The aim of the project is to approach and reflect the complexities of migration in a way which confronts cliches and offers divergent perspectives on the issue. The focus is split, on high-pitched African expectations of a life in Europe and on the humiliating European politics against African migrants as well,” he said.

Following the unimpressive outing so far in the ongoing 2010 World Cup in South Africa , former Shooting Star boss, Elder Bode Oyewole has said Nigeria lost to Greece as a result of technical deficiency on the part of the Super Eagles coach Lars Lagerback.