Sunday, September 05, 2010
A star of many hit movies like Made in Heaven, Outcast, Generals wife, Wrong Number and her latest movie Superzebraman among others, the University of Lagos graduate of Mass Communication recently surprised the entertainment industry with the slated release of her debut music album Nkenkene. In this interview with ESTHER IJALANA, she speaks about her music, marriage and other matters. Excerpts:Where did you grow up?I grew up like every normal child. I grew up in a village called Idiba i
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
When Jennifer Lopez some years ago announced that her bursts and behind were both insured, many highbrows were raised. Those were her selling points, and she wanted security for them. Thats life in Hollywood. What will we say about a Nigerian actress who says she wants to insure her assets too. DEBORAH NWOKOCHA had a chat with Nollywood actress Nuella Njugbigbo, who disclosed plans to insure her eyes and lips.Where is Nuella from?I am from Ozubulu in Anambra state. I am from a family of
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Iyabo Ojo is a popular actress in the Yoruba film genre. An indigene of Abeokuta, in Ogun State, she is from a family of three where she is the youngest and only girl. She went to Great ChildrenPrimary School, then to National College, Gbagada. She proceeded to the Lagos State Polytechnic, where she read Estate Management. She started acting in 1998, in an English film titled Satanic. She had a break and came back in 2001 to join the Odunfa caucus where she started acting in Yoruba movies.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
They are very busy but not on movie locations or preparing to face the camera. Each of them has her hands in another pie other than the usual light, camera and action terrain. Stephanie, who broke the cinema jinx with her movie, Through the glass, is on a mission to five Northern states to preach the gospel against VVF. She is negotiating with five states including Sokoto, Kano , Kaduna , Bauchi, and Zamfara on her project to stop the plague of the dreaded but avoidable disease. Stephanie
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
We promised to bring you the concluding part of the Ghanian saga that involved our own Kalu Ikeagwu. Reading it alone, i could feel the tension, danger, selfishness and manipulations of man.I urge that you read on my people.The new hotel we moved into was large and spacious and I was checked into it at about eleven pm by the production manager and the producer who did not speak to me throughout the journey and remained in the vehicle while I was being checked in. I supposed she was
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Saturday, August 07, 2010
Being a big player in the movie or nightlife entertainment sector doesnt give you right to break the rules as you like and get away with it and so did the security at Black and White Ball put together by softsell print Encomium Weekly did act. Ken Caleb Olumese of Nightshift Coliseum, Actor Saheed Balogun, Bacchus Nightclub chief Frank Okamigbo were among the celebrities bounced and denied entry into The Encomium Black and white Ball for their refusal to comply with the dress code. EVe
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Monday, August 02, 2010
YOU actually studied science in the university?I studied medical biology, but Im living my passion which is entertainment. Someone said to me that the sweetest thing you can ever get is being paid for something you love doing, something as easy to you as sleeping and waking.Is there any occasion where you have had to put what you studied into practice?I have sometimes had to apply my knowledge on set where there is a laboratory and I can show people the proper way to tackle medicall
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Saturday, July 31, 2010
The Associate Producer of Total Crisis, War Game, Girls Cot, and many other Nollywood home videos, Stanley Ebonline, has been reported by his colleagues who are equally promising and established actors like him, from Lagos, Asaba and its environs, of swindling them of their hard-earned sweat running into several thousands of naira. As the story goes, Stanley who is prominent in Lagos and South East was said to have collected the sum of N15, 000 each from some people as registration fee to
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Friday, July 30, 2010
Dele Odule, a veteran in the film industry, in this exclusive chat with Remi Aderibigbe in Ibadan, expressed his views on the activities of the theatre practitioners in Nigeria, while lamenting the uncomplimentary roles of the film marketers. Excerpts:ProfessionalismBecause of the language, we have taken professionalism for granted in the Yoruba film industry. We believe we do not need the orientation. Theatre is beyond I know how to speak Yoruba. It is beyond I have been trained by o
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Friday, July 23, 2010
For those born in the 60s and early 70s, they would be familiar with the musical group BLOW which took the nation by storm with their brand of music. The boom in the music industry in the 70s and 80s like every other thing in the country, witnessed a downward plunge as piracy began to take its toll on the entertainment business. A member of that group and a music producer of repute, song writer and arranger, Laolu Akins in this interview with Vanguards Godfrey Bivbere, speaks on the devel
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