9ice set to star in a Yoruba movie

The singer is currently shooting a Yoruba flick titled Jejere (Tumor), produced by Laide Bakare and featuring Fathia Balogun, Emeka Ike and a host of others. Heard he's playing the lead character in the drama that deals with the girl-child value and lack of interest in the importance of female children in most Nigerian families. The movie will be out soon. Watch out for this movie.

Photos from Genevieve Nnaji's 33rd birthday party

  

 More explusive photos from Genevieve Nnaji's birthday bash after the cut...........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eku Edewor, Genny and BeatFM OAP, Toolz

Desmond Elliot and Genevieve

Peter Okoye of "P'Square" set to star in a movie

   

From all indication, it seems like the proud papa of one, Peter Okoye will soon star in a movie, going by what I've heard and by a tweet from top Nollywood producer, Kunle Afolayan. Looking forward to such switch in the entertainment circle.

Nollywood Actress, Ini Edo Is Pregnant

Ini Edo and Husband

Information reaching us  at NGB from a very reliable source indicates that nollywood sexy actress, Ini Edo is now on the regular Nine months course courtesy of her husband. According to what Top Enquirer reported, Ini Edo is pregnant and is expecting her first child after some years of marriage.
Ini Edo married Phillips Ehiagwina, a US based businessman of Edo State origin some years ago in the United States.

Photos: Nollywood Actress, Adaora Ukoh Lauches "Adaora Couture"

 

Actress Adaora Ukoh launched her plus size clothing line yesterday at Scintilla, Lagos. More photos when you continue...

Adaora Ukoh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Know Marriages Don't Last These Days But I Need Another Man - Shan George

Shan George

In a recent interview with news men, popular and controversial nollywood artress, Shan George revealed her desire for a man in her life. Here is a n excerpt from the interview:

"My husband left me for someone else. There are a lot of women their husbands leave for someone else, I don’t think I am the only one. I married as an adult to a man that I saw and liked, and believed in my mind that I had seen someone I want to be with.

I spent four years of my life with him and the person decided to walk out, and move on with another woman, I don’t think I should be carrying matchet pursing people for that. He found another woman and decided to move on with his life".

Having been disappointed in marriage twice, would you still give marriage a chance?

I think so; I think there are still good men despite what we women say about men being this or that. I have seen a lot of men staying married to their wives and becoming good husband to their wives and good fathers to their children. So I think there are a lot of good men, out there, women should not because of what happened in a particular affair keep judging men as being all bad. If you had a relationship and it did not go down well, don’t use that to spoil the next one. So I am sure I will meet a good man out there someday. There should be a lot waiting for your yes or no - I have not seen a man yet, that is just the truth.

2face Idibia and Annie Macaulay are officially married

If you have never believed anything I've written on this blog, please believe this one. Annie and 2face are officially married. Stella Dimoko first wrote it yesterday but I wanted to be extremely sure it was true before writing it. And I have confirmed it, from the couple themselves. I spoke to 2face and Annie this afternoon and 2baba excitingly confirmed that he's now a married man. The lovebirds didn't want to give out too much info but confirmed they indeed officially got married at a very private ceremony on Wednesday May 2nd 2012, witnessed by only a few close family and friends. I asked them if they were planning a white wedding later, and they said yes. All the details for that will be revealed when they are ready. So there you have it folks, 2face Idibia and Annie are now officially husband and wife!

So so happy for them and big congrats to them!

Nollywood Actress Uche Jumbo Arrested For "Abusing" Nigeria Police

Report reaching us indicates that Nollywood top actress, Uche Jumbo, Ghanaian actor, Van Vicker and some crew members were arrested by men of the Nigeria Police in Lagos on Thursday.

It was gathered that the beautiful actress and her colleagues were picked up while on location in the Surulere area of Lagos. As at the time of posting, they were still detained at Bode Thomas police station in the city.

Yes, they now know why the police arrested them. I think it was a mixed up kind of because they are not the only ones guilty of this offence... The policemen say Nollywood movies always abuse and misrepresent Nigeria police, and painting them in bad light. So they want to know what the movie they were shooting is all about before knowing whether to allow it or not, a source told a reporter.

Efforts by one of my peeps to speak directly with either Uche Jumbo or Van Vicker to know the next line of action proved abortive.

Me And Senator Ita-Giwa Will Not Talk About Our Relationship –Chidi Mokeme

Chidi Mokeme

Nollywood actor and model, Chidi Mokeme was quoted in a recent interview as saying him and Senator Ita Giwa own nobody explaination regarding their relationship. The actor who got married two weeks ago was quoted in a recent interview as thus: "I don’t know what they mean by delay. Delay is subjective. Whose point of view is it? Who has the yardstick for measuring delay? Some people want to get married at 16, 18 and some people want to wait till 70. Read more after the cut......
Some people have certain things they want to do or have before getting married. So, there are no hard and fast rules here. There are no standards. I really can’t respond to that. Marriage happens for everybody when it happens for them. And this is when it is happening for me. And there are no excuses, no apologies.

About being friends with Senator Ita Giwa? We have always been friends.We are still friends. You can’t ascribe a measurement to every relationship. So, we are not going to explain ourselves to anybody".

Segun Arinze resigns as Actors' Guild of Nigeria president

Nollywood star, Segun Arinze has resigned as the president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) following a failed AGN election that was held in Benin last week. Here is the statement released yesterday by Segun Arinze:

"The events in Benin on the 28th of April 2012 is now common knowledge (a failed AGN election held that day in Benin). I know I constituted an independent AGNEC that was supposed to be devoid of any electoral rancour or external influences.

For my integrity and honour, I hereby resign as president of Actors Guild of Nigeria and it comes into effect immediately.

I thank the state chapter chairmen, his fellow presidents from other guilds in Nollywood, all AGN members and especially the media for their tremendous support.

I want to thank profoundly my wife, Julie, for holding on during the challenging period of service to the guild".

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Film maker, Evag. Helen Akpabio's 3 brothers all killed in one night

According to a report by an online entertainment magazine, Cross River based film maker and founder of Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries, Evangelist Helen Akpabio lost all 3 of her younger brothers on the same day in March.
The brothers, Joseph, Charles and Emmanuel Akpabio, were killed on Sunday March 25th in front of their aged mother.
The killings - shocking, barbaric and reminiscent of a mafia-styled gangland bloodletting -  crime was allegedly perpetrated by a combine team of the State Security Service (SSS) operatives and a Nigeria Police squad. Continue to read what allegedly happened.......The killing which was a culmination of a well-laid plan started on March 24, when three anonymous white men came to Mbente Village in Nkari clan, Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, the village where the decased, Emmanuel and Joseph, lived. They (white men) came in the company of one of one Benjamin Christopher Akpan Otu from Ifa village of the same clan. The three white men allegedly came on a courtesy visit, inviting youth leaders of the clan to come for a meeting concerning a dam that is to be constructed on their land.

Joseph Akpabio, one of the youth leaders, invited people in the village to welcome the visitors. The visitors requested for a formal meeting the next day. The youths had no idea that Benjamin, whom they consider a friend and who escorted the white men was a bait and that the other men in the white men’s entourage were actually SSS operatives. The next day’s rendezvous was fixed at Ikot Ekpene, which is about one hour drive from Nkari clan.

Benjamin, further suggested to Joseph that the meeting should be in his wife’s house at Ikot Ekpene. Joseph unwittingly accepted. The “Judas” went ahead by calling the Akpabio elder brother, Charles, a sailor who resided in Calabar, and informed him of the meeting. The latter called his brother to confirm it. To forclose any suspicion, the scheming Benjamin and his white men invited a few other youths, who were executives of the Nkari Youth, one Solomon Udoette, two others from other villages in Nkari and also the last of the Akpabio brothers, Emmanuel.

The next day March 25, the invited youth leaders left for the meeting not knowing they were on their way to their death. Joseph the host of the meeting bought drinks and prepared snacks for the coming visitors. He went the extra mile by asking his wife to buy petrol so that they could put on light and fan while the meeting lasted. The white men and their escort, Benjamin, called Joseph Akpabio to be sure he was there. They also confirmed whether his elder brother Charles, who lived in Calabar would make the meeting and the still-unsuspecting Joseph told them he was on his way.

Before long they were all assembled in Joseph’s compound. The mysterious white men came in a truck driven by one Toppa, who incidentally was a friend to the younger Akpabio, Joseph. Also in attendance was Benjamin Christopher Akpan.

Shortly into the meeting, the white men called for an interlude so they could hold a brief discussion among themselves outside. Just as they stepped out, the generator went off. The host’s wife who went out to check the cause of the power outage was confronted by about 20 policemen who all wore black T-shirts. She witnessed the final betrayal as the white men shook hands with the leader of the squad, a certain Noel Nduka before they departed.

Then the nightmare unveiled. The policemen rushed into the house rounded up those inside, handcuffed them and herded them into their trucks. Thereafter, the true intention of the meeting began to unfold as Benjamin Christopher Otu who was also handcuffed had his own handcuffs released and he suddenly began to discuss freely with the police. The police wasted no time in showing that they meant business: they shot all the six young men in their knees. Then the bizarre happening began to take the shape of a vendetta, as the Judas, Benjamin, replied that they should “go and shine in the grave”, when questioned by his friend Joseph about what crime they had committed to deserve such a treatment.  With the traitor acting as their guide, the police drove their victims to their village allegedly to find the father of Emmanuel, Charles and Joseph with the intention to kill him also.

When the death squad got to the village, they gave their traitor guide a mask to cover his face so as to hide his identity. Back to the very compound where the meeting was held the previous day, the policemen stormed the house searching for Chief Essien. However, their quarry was not at home. As they ransacked the whole house, breaking down locked doors, the masked accomplice (Benjamin) led them on with sign language, directing them to pressurize the Akpabio’s mother, madam Atim to produce her husband. When that failed, they dragged out two of their victims Charles (whose broken legs had been tied wit rafia ropes) and Joseph and dumped them by plantain trees. The two elderly women, one, their 72-year-old  mother, the other their uncle’s wife, aged 82 years cried, begged the policemen to set them free and to tell them what their crimes were. At that point Joseph did manage to tell his mother that Benjamin had set them up using the dam project.  The two boys were shot before the very eyes of their mother and their uncle’s wife while their other brother, Emmanuel, and the other three young men were taken away.

Later, Benjamin confided in one Peter Ekpenyong Inuaeyen that the four boys who were not killed were being detained at the State Police headquarters, Ikot Akpan Abia. He also gave out some phone numbers which include that of Noel Nduka, the SSS officer who allegedly shot the brothers.
When a call was put through to him, Nduka allegedly confirmed that he killed the three brothers, claiming that they were terrorists. According to reports, when asked about whom they had terrorized, the SSS operatives was alleged to have claim that he has the right to kill anybody he is asked to kill.

How the other captives met their end gave a picture of a mindless cruelty. By the next day, March 26, the remaining four young men who were still alive—Emmanuel Akpabio, Solomon Udoette and two others – were driven to Obot Akara and then shot at the boundary of Nto Edino and Obot Akara at about 1a.m. of March 27, 2012. Benjamin, the Judas, again called his confidant, Peter Ekpenyong Inuaeyen and told him that “all are gone”.

Noel Nduka, later told a local newspaper that the police team encountered some robbers who operated between Abia State and Akwa Ibom and had killed all four of them.

Meanwhile, two weeks before the tragedy, Benjamin, the deceiver, came with his accomplice, Toppa, and told the late Joseph of how the youths of the land were vandalizing the property and equipment for the dam. Benjamin insisted that since Joseph is the youth president he should call Charles to accompany him to go and pick some of those things for safety. Charles later told his wife that Benjamin did a strange thing by filming them with his camera phone while they were doing that. Today, the police are using what Benjamin recorded as their evidence to the fact that the boys have been stealing from the dam.

Killed and abandoned by the road, efforts made by the family of Chief Essien Akpabio to have the corpses of the murdered young men buried decently has been futile. A lawyer, who went to see the DPO of Obot Akara, was sent back empty-handed by the recalcitrant police boss.

At the moment, it is alleged that Noel Nduka is still insisting that he must kill Lady Apostle Helen Ukpabio whom he claimed has been aiding the kidnappers. He has also sent threat messages and calls to the only brother of the deceased, Henry Akpabio who is resident in UK. He is alleged to have boasted that “they” are commissioned to eliminate him and the entire family of Chief Essien Ukpabio.

In a brief phone chat with Sunday Express, grief-stricken Helen Ukpabio, said all her family wants now is justice and the recovery of the corpse of her remaining brother. “My life is in danger, but I’m not deterred, my family and I will follow this wicked case of injustice till we get justice. You cannot kill my innocent and defenseless brothers and expect me to keep quiet because you are working for the government.”

Genevieve Nnaji & Stephanie Okereke star alongside Isaiah Washington, Jimmy Jean-Louis & Vivica A. Fox in Tony Abulu’s “Doctor Bello”

“The Cure for Cancer has been found in the sky mountains of Africa and an American Oncologist will risk everything to get it.“

That’s the synopsis for Tony Abulu‘s new movie “Doctor Bello“. Just a few hours before the AMAAs which took place in Lagos last week, the cast and team behind this movie gathered at the Radisson Blu hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos for a media event to introduce the movie to the press and stakeholders.

Isaiah Washington, Producer Tony Abulu and Genevieve.

Filming kicked off last week and BN spotted Genevieve Nnaji with co-star Isaiah Washington and fillmaker Tony Abulu. “Doctor Bello” is the first movie project financed with support from the Nigerian Intervention Fund for the Arts and NEXIM Bank.

Brilliant cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant is emotionally troubled, wrestling with the traumatic loss of his 10 year old daughter from cancer. Immersing himself in his work from the hospital, away from his wife who blames him for their child’s death, he forms an unlikely bond with a sick, loving, but rambunctious seven year old boy Sam, the son of a
rich Jewish couple who are major contributors to the hospital’s cancer research fund.

Unfortunately, Sam’s health deteriorates drastically, and soon, he slips into a coma, with only a few days to live. Dr. Durant becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the child’s life. A surreptitious Nigerian Nurse convinces him to seek the help of Dr. Bello, an uncertified Nigerian Doctor, known in Brooklyn-African underground as a miracle worker.

Dr. Bello, an introvert with a controversial past, secretly visits the child at night and administers a strange African potion, replete with incantations and by the next morning, miraculously, the child begins to recover, the cancer speeding into remission.

The hospital medical board immediately orders an investigation and soon the secret is revealed and Dr. Durant is suspended. Dr. Bello is arrested and charged with medical malpractices. Dr. Durant soon falls into depression after his wife leaves him. Meanwhile, Dr. Bello has fallen critically ill in jail and can only be saved by the ingestion of that same potion that can only be found in the mysterious “garden of life” nestled on the peak of Nigeria”s sky mountains.

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