| | | I act romantic roles with seriousness & my hubby understands | Tall, sexy and creative, Chika Ike-Ebireri joined Nollywood five years ago as an undergraduate. Luck smiled on her and she became a household name. Blessed with a husband, who doesn’t complain about her busy schedule and her romantic roles in movies, Chika loves life and all the good things of life. In an interview with Daily Sun, she confessed that marriage is not a bed of roses, although she enjoys hers. Excerpts:
How did you meet your husband? “I met him just like every lady meets her soulmate. You can meet your soulmate anywhere, but I met him while I was at the University of Lagos where he came to broker some business deals. He hails from Sapele, Delta State. We got to know each other better after our first meeting. It took us time to finally come to terms with what we feel for each other. We have been married for three years now.”  Chika Ike-Ebireri Read more...
Read or post comments: 0 | | | | | | Why Nollywood stars deserted Stella Damasus at Dad’s burial | Except for actor, Richard Mofe Damijo, Delta state commissioner for culture and tourism, who represented the State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan and top actress, Kate Hewshaw Nuttal, no other notable Nollywood star was present at the burial rites of the father of one of their own, Stella Damasus, which took place last Friday in his home state.
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Read or post comments: 6 | | | | | | Toni Payne divorces 9ice on stage | She didn’t have to say much. Well, maybe she didn’t have much to say. The five minute or less that erstwhile wife of pop singer 9ice, Toni Payne Akande, spent on The Future Awards stage last Sunday would have passed without strings until she ended her talk by introducing herself without her marital suffix- Akande.  •Toni Payne Read more...
Read or post comments: 0 | | | | | | Enhancements not an advantage at pageantry – Glory Chukwu MBGN’10 |  •Glory Chukwu Third child of a family of five children and born to a diplomat father, growing up for Glory Chukwu, current Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria (MBGN) 2009 was one filled with fun and a lot of travelling. And this also meant she was never steady in one country for more than four years.Glory Chukwu who flew the nation’s flag at the last December held, Miss world beauty pageant in South Africa, frowned at the declining quality of the contestants saying, “At the Miss World beauty pageant, breast, buttock and facial enhancements seem to have placed natural beauty permanently in the back seat”.
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Read or post comments: 0 | | | | | | Face of Africa: Why I won the prize, by Lukando | Zambian born Lukando Nalungwe, who shocked the world penultimate Saturday when she emerged the 6th winner of the M-Net sponsored Face of Africa competition has attributed her success to her persistence to be a part of the competition.
According to her revelation, she started participating in the competition at the age of 17 years. Since then, she has not relented in her effort to make her dream come through.  Lukando Read more...
Read or post comments: 0 | | | | | | “In Nigeria, an album is a business card” | We know how quickly artistes move from releasing one album to the next these days. The average life span of a Nigerian released album is perhas 15 to 18 months before a new one breaks out. Now, this is regardless of the listing of the artiste: A list, A plus, B plus plus… Here Bankole Wellington aka Mr Capable, explains that an album is not worth more than a business card in the Nigerian system.
How do you come about your songs? The way I work when I’m making albums is simply to tell the experiences that I have been through and to tell whatever is on my mind and heart at that time. In Mr. Capable, I had to pick from over 20 songs that I had at that time. I had to figure out what fits into the content of the album.  Bankole Wellington aka Mr Capable, Read more...
Read or post comments: 0 | | | | | | Re-marry! It has never crossed my mind, says Agatha | Agatha Amata, the talk show screen diva of Inside Out TV, is one of the few Nigerians who have dared to speak the minds of the masses. In this encounter, she bares her on issues bothering on her marriage, pet-project and darling talk show.
Through her talk show, Agatha irons out issues of moral decadence among the youths and women in society. For 14 years now, she has sustained the tempo and passion with which she presents national, cultural and personal issues on air. And this has continually warmed her into the hearts of many Nigerians. Read more...
Read or post comments: 5 | | | | | Nollywood actors-turned politiciansNollywood Gossip On Friday 26 February 2010 - 14:52:47 | Read or post comments: 0 9ice in alleged lyrics theft scandalNollywood Gossip On Friday 26 February 2010 - 14:51:33 | Read or post comments: 1 | Could it be true of Emem Isong? | There’s a rumour making rounds that reputable screenplay writer and producer, Emem Isong is in a hot romance with a lecturer in one of the higher institutions in Akwa-Ibom state. Emem is a highly respected female film maker in Nigeria who devotes little time for frivolities.
To her credit, she discovered the likes of Dakore Egbuson, Stella Damasus, Stephanie Okereke and many others. These big names today are not only hot, they are among the most sought after actresses the movie industry is proud of. Unconfirmed source had it that since the crash of marriage plans between herself and her European based ex-lover few years back, Emem has been secretive about her personal life.
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