Odunlade Adekola Odunlade Adekola is one of the most popular Yoruba movie actors in the Nollywood Movie Industry. After surfacing in the Nigerian Yoruba movie industry some years ago, Odunlade Adekola has since become a household name, as the tall, handsome actor has won the hearts of many Yoruba movie watchers both in Nigeria and beyond. Biography : He was born on December 31st, 1977, in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. He attended the Saint John RCM primary school, and later Saint Peter’s college, both in Abeokuta. Odunlade Adekola started acting at a very early age. According to him, whenever any anniversary was to hold in his church (the Christ Apostolic Church, Lafenwa, Abeokuta), he and a friend, named “Tunde”, would request to play jesters, and this request was always granted. Career:  He wrote a “script” for a comedy play involving just two characters (him and his friend). That was how it all began for this professi...

........This is the continuation of the series that was discovered last week. Last week's edition ended at #7 (Bomb/Bomber/bombing) and so I present to you another edition of the 25 words (#8 -#15). Welcome on board. 8. Buffet. This is another French loanword in English that retains its original French pronunciation. The last “t” in the word is silent. It sounds like “biufey.” But note that the word is pronounced “biufey” only when it refers to the kind of meal where customers pay a flat fee in a restaurant and eat all they want so long as they don’t take out any food. If the word is used as a verb to mean strike against something forcefully and repeatedly (as in: “the violent winds buffeted him”) the terminal “t” isn’t silent. It is pronounced something like “biufit.” 9. Brochure . Several Nigerians pronounce this word as “brokio.” That would throw off almost every non-Nigerian English speaker. It is pronounced something like “browsho(r) in all native varieties of...