Monday, May 13, 2013
There is a storm presently brewing in the Nollywood and if not quickly calmed, it could turn out to something disastrous. The reason is not far-fetched. The movie industry players are not happy with President Goodluck Jonathan over the appointment of Danjuma Dabo as head of the Nigerian Film Corporation NFC. In a Blackberry protest, stakeholders in the motion pictures industry in Nigeria believe it is an insult to appoint Dabo, who is a Marine Engineer, to overseer the creative industry, e
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Friday, May 10, 2013
If the Actors Guild of Nigeria President, Miss Ibinabo Fiberesima ever envisaged that she was coming to face an herculean task, she might probably, have given it a second thought before vying for the number post in AGN.Shortly after he came on board, Ibinabo, the first female ever to be elected president, initiated a health scheme to better the lots of the thespians at old age or as a result of unforeseen incidents.Good thinking you would say Her people, the Nollywood people both old an
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Saturday, May 04, 2013
The Nigerian film industry has come under fire over the warped values it espouses.Most Nigerians either love or hate Nollywood, with not too many occupying the middle ground. In primary school, children play clapping games while singing songs about Living in Bondage, considered the first Nollywood blockbuster, and the film that launched the Nigerian cinema industry.However, as the industry grew, parents began to forbid their children to watch Nigerian movies due to the abundant depic
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Thursday, May 02, 2013
President of Actors Guild of Nigeria AGN, Ibinabo Fiberesima has intensified her efforts in making members of the Guild to embrace the health insurance scheme she promised during her inauguration. The former beauty queen, upon her assumption of office in November 2012, promised to make the poor health of members a thing of the past. Before assuming office as the boss of AGN, many veterans had problems with their health which caused them to solicit for help from the government and kind-
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Some years ago, it was unthinkable that a Nigerian artiste would be given the opportunity to serve in any official capacity in government. In those days, it did not matter if an artiste had a good educational background or not. As long as he had chosen to earn his living as musician or actor over real professions, he was regarded as no better than a dreg of the human society and treated as such. But over the years, the artist managed to win some respect from the same people that had despis
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Genevieve Nnaji is no longer the Queen of Nollywood since the most authoritative and most powerful news magazine in the world TIME magazine has recognized leading Nollywood diva Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde as the new Queen of Nollywood in its citation on her as she became the first Nigerian actor/actress to make the highly coveted and esteemed annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world of TIME magazine. She is among the icons on the list. Omotola has overtaken other Nollywod star
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
The Abia Chapter of Actors Guild of Nigeria, AGN is currently rocking in a six million Naira fraud and of the presidential aspirant of the association, Emeka Rollas, has been allegedly indicted for his involvement in fraud. Further investigation revealed that the fund was said to have been donated to the guilds treasury by the State governor to support the guild after visitation by Emeka Rollas, who was the AGN National secretary in the last dispensation and some members of the executives.
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Emem Isong, the prolific film maker, has denied the rumour going round that her Royal Academy Empire has become a cartel where most of her works only favour those who have passed through the academy.Hear her reaction, I dont have any cartel. I dont know where the clique idea is coming from. That may be because I work with a certain group of people every now and then. I think if youre constantly working with certain kinds of people, theres the tendency you will keep calling them to do y
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Premium Times has exclusively obtained a letter purportedly signed by the Head of Legal Services of the National Film and Video Censors Board NFVCB, Effiong Inwang, warning a short-film producer, Bako Ishaya, not to release his documentary on Nigerian poverty, Fuelling Poverty. It was reported that the Nigerian government has banned the airing and distribution of the documentary, which is believed to have element that could incite or encourage public disorder and undermine national securi
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Friday, April 05, 2013
Not many people know that Patience Osokwor popularly referred to as Mama G is just an actor and the character she plays in movies is quite different from her real person.This character which is robbing off on her image might have led the Senior Pastor of Dominion City and founder of the New Covenant Family Ministry, David Ogbueli, to have warned top actress, Mama G, to stop behaving like a Jezebel.Pastor Ogbueli, we learnt, gave the stern warning to her during the churchs camp meeting held
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