Celebrities in the News
The Figurine
The Figurine is getting international attention barely three months after its release. The flick was produced and directed by Kunle Afolayan.
Kunle Afolayan has been invited to major international festivals, to showcase The Figurine to international audience who are very interest in the Nigerian film industry.
From January 28 he will be taking his multi-linguistic film, The [...]
Entertainment Gossip
Before now many had wondered why this Nollywood diva, Genevieve Nnaji couldn’t keep a relationship long enough to translate into marriage.
Genevieve may have found true love at last, she presently neck-deep in a relationship with a handsome and light-skinned Ghanaian actor, which may actually lead to marriage.
The lovebirds were said to have met each other [...]
RECENTLY at the Coral Reef in Ikoyi during the third concert by Quirk and Glee, one of Nigeria’s talented musician Asa put paid to rumours that she was arrested in Hearthrow Airport in London on allegations of drugs by performing Fire On the Mountain to many of her teaming fans. The event which started in [...]
Yoruba Movie
Lovers of Yoruba TV soap operas are in for a new addition as Igba Otun is poised to grace Nigerian TV screens. The 13-episode soap which was written by Mrs. Taiwo Giwa was shot in Ogun State and features an all Yoruba cast which a multitude of popular names like Dele Odule, Tola Oladokun, Akeem [...]
The movie Taiwo & Kehinde is a story of twins (male & female) who were too fond of each other, that they found it difficult to get married.
On noticing this, their parent decided to separate them by sending Kehinde to London, while Taiwo stayed behind Nigeria.
But unfortunately, incidentally Kehinde was poisoned from a drink [...]
Premiere
On December 7, 2009 – Vivian Ejike’s latest box office “Silent Scandal” featuring Genevieve Nnaji and Majid Michael breaks the rules of silence during its grand premiere at the Silverbird, Accra. About three of Silverbird’s large cinema halls were filled to capacity with several movie lovers pushing management of Silverbird to arrange for additional showing [...]
It’s a Production of Jude Idada and Lucky Ejim, two Nigerian emigrants in Canada. The Tenant was shot at various locations in Canada and Nigeria.
The movie tells the tale of the average African emigrant in search of a better future for himself and family
The character – A Nigerian refugee in Canada, Obinna was facing deportation [...]
Celebrity Birthday
COME November 18th this year, the duo of Peter and Paul Okoye of the P-Square group will be marking their birthday and to make it outstanding like never before, they plan to celebrate with the less privileged in the society (charities and motherless babies’ homes around Lagos) and also do some humanitarian jobs like controlling [...]
A great son of the soil, King Sunny Adé (Sunday Adeniyi) was born on September 22, 1946, to a Nigerian royal family in Ondo. His father was a church organist, while his mother was a trader. Sunny is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian Jùjú music and Pioneer of Modern world music.
Wishing you many [...]
Entertainment Extra
By Opeoluwani Akintayo
Divorces today is becoming alarming, more so when the reasons given are flimsy, which could have been settled amicably. That’s why celebrity marriages don’t last more than few months.
In Nigeria, the case is a bit different because of the African culture which usually does not allow a wife to leave her [...]
By Benjamin NJOKU (Vanguard News)
If what happened last year and the previous years is anything to reckon with, then the motion picture industry, otherwise known as Nollywood, is surely on the right track to redefine the entertainment industry in Nigeria.
However, while the ovation is loud, industry watchers posit that there’s need for practitioners to return [...]









