Category: Entertainments

By Mandy Park The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has announced a four-week extension of the ongoing strike in public universities. A statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja partly confirmed the development. It partly read, “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognisance of Government’s past failures to abide by its own timelines in addressing issues raised in the 2020 FGN/ ASUU Memorandum of Action (MoA), NEC resolved that the strike be rolled over for four weeks to give Government more time to satisfactorily resolve…

Veteran Nollywood actress, Sola Awojobi Onayiga, is dead. The gap-toothed actress, popular for playing Ireti in the now-defunct family drama, Fuji House of Commotion, died on Monday. Her death was announced by a renowned movie critic and film specialist, Husseini Shaibu, via his Twitter page. Shaibu said, “Just learnt that the accomplished Stage and Screen Actress and Fellow of Theatre Arts Auntie Sola Awojobi Onayiga passed on today. “Auntie Sola is best known for living delightfully the role of Ireti aka Cooking practicals in the defunct TV sitcom ‘CHECKMATE’! Journey…

By Sylvester Kwentua Nigerian celebrities have taken to Twitter to express their grief over the death of a colleague, Ada Ameh. On Monday morning, news filtered on social media that the beautiful and talented Nollywod actress had died in a hospital in Warri, Delta State on Sunday. As soon as the news started spreading, celebrities took to Twitter to mourn the star actress of the popular sitcom, ‘The Johnsons’. Here is what some celebrities had to say about Ada. “The fact that we have to experience grief at some point…

By Mandy Park The wife of Nollywood actor, producer, and director, Yul Edochie has reacted to a post the husband made on his verified Instagram page on Wednesday announcing the birth of his son by Nollywood actress, Judy Austin, who he also confirmed as his second wife. Yul Edochie who is married to May Edochie with 4 lovely kids welcomed a bouncing baby with his colleague turned baby mama, Judith Austin in 2021. Announcing the birth of his son, Yul wrote: “It’s time for the world to meet my son.…

By Mandy Park EME record boss, Bankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W, has replied to music producer, Samklef’s allegations that he took his name off as the composer of Wizkid’s hit song, ‘Pakurumo.’ Samklef, who is currently at daggers drawn with Banky W following his tell-all interview with Ebuka, had called out the label boss for ripping him off his royalties for his contribution to Wizkid’s debut album. Recall that Wizkid released two albums, ‘Superstar’ and ‘Ayo’, under the EME records before he left to chase international acclaim. Banky…

By Mandy Park Music producer, Samuel Oguachuba, popularly known as Samklef, on Saturday explained why renowned Afrobeat musician, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun aka Wizkid, left Empire Mates Entertainment (EME) in 2014. EME records label is owned by a rapper, Bankole Wellington aka Banky W. Samklef, who featured in an Instagram live session, said Wizkid realized he was bigger than EME records after serving the label for almost six years. He was reacting to Banky W allegation during an interview with Ebuka Obi-Uchendu on The BlackBox that the Afrobeat musician still owed…