Nollywood finally gets nod from Oscars

From 2015, Indigenous Nigerian movies will begin to compete the Best Foreign Language Film category of the Academy Awards, also called The Oscars, reports Pulse.ng

The announcement was made during the introduction of  the Nigerian Oscar Selection Committee.

Chineze Anyaele, director of the Nollywood film 'Ije' will preside over the 12-man selection committee that includes journalist Shuaibu Hussein, film makers Charles Novia and Mildred Okwo and actor, Ramsey Nouah.

Oh No!! Chris Brown's haggard and dishevelled look will make you Cry

Chris Brown was photographed for the first time yesterday(Thursday May 1st) in an Orange prison suit looking very downcast during his latest hearing in Rihanna 2009 beating case..The Judge James Brandlin ruled he will remain in jail until May 9.

This Twitter user foretold Nyanya's second bomb blast; saw how the bomb got into Abuja

A twitter user simply identified as @MicahOnly foretold yesterday's bomb-blast, after seeing a very suspicious incident on his way from Kaduna to Abuja on April 20th, about 12 days ago. Please read his tweets below (FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP)

Nigeria's Beyonce & Jay Z -rock Dr Sid's birthday party

Nigeria's self acclaimed Jay Z and Beyonce - Tiwa Savage and Tunji Balogun - were spotted at Dr Sid' birthday party which held at Intercontinental hotel, Lagos yesterday.
The newly weds also rocked a gangster pose...oh by the way, we love the SURULERE cake!

Nyanya May 1st bomb blast. My experience yesterday.

I was at a client's house in Nyanya when I heard the thunderous sound. My client said it was a gun shot, I thought it was the tyre of a vehicle. Before you know it, we saw smoke in the air and almost immediately phone calls started coming in. In no time it was confirmed to be a bomb blast. A friend who was on the way to the house from travel to the East, got to the scene some minutes after the explosion and called to find out where I was. I thought, who should be more worried?

It was really another bomb blast. Eye witnesses said the vehicle loaded with explosives was hurriedly parked by the driver and three occupants alighted from it and ran into the crowed before the car went up in flames.

The road was sealed. I was lucky not to have driven to my client's place, because there was no road to drive through after the explosion. Security agents were trouping in from all angles with blaring sirens.  People were stranded, angry and crying for the deceased. Everybody is scared now. They have finally come to Abuja.

I left the scene on a bike with a fellow Nigerian and I was able to find my way home.

May God help Nigeria and may the souls of those that died rest in peace.

Zack Orji takes lead role in "St Mary"

A new film staring veteran actors, like Zack Orji, Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey, Paul Obazele and Ibinabo Fiberesima titled St Mary is set to be released soon.

The story of St Mary uncovers a massive web of conspiracy on human trafficking and crime on board 'St. Mary', an oil vessel on voyage bound for Amsterdam.

Nonye gets lured by a face book confidant and friend into a seeming breakthrough in her singing career.

Her excitement banishes caution and her world is thrown into a spiraling string of turmoil and disaster.

She lands in a cabal's dragnet stripping her away from the safety of family and imposing a terrifying adventure amidst her pleas for survival.

 The Nollywood flick is directed by Matthias Obahiagbon

Peter Okoye loses N800k ($5,000) football bet to Phyno

Peter is a die hard Chelsea fan &  Atletico Madrid won them 3-1 last night to clinch a ticket to the Champion League finals where they play against Real Madrid...

Phyno Test the money ...lol

Aww, you'l love these photos of Kanu Nwankwo and his family

Aww, Kanu Nwankwo has got the most beautiful family!

We just found these family photos of the Nigerian football legend - the photos were taken last year Januray, during the christening ceremony of their beautiful daughter Pinky Amarachi Kanu Nwankwo in Hadley Wood, London, UK.

Kanu and 26 year old wifey, Amarachi tied the knot in 2004 and welcomed Pinky in February 2012. 

Amarachi, Pinky and her two older brothers were all beaming at the ceremony. 

See photos below (courtesy of BN):

              

Checkout Toyin Lawani's super long braids

The fashion designer rocked her new hairstyle last week.

Air Search for Missing Malaysian plane officially comes to an End

After over 7 weeks since the disappearance of MH370, authorities have officially called off all air search .To mark the official end of the international search, all the men and women who took part in the search posed for farewell photos with their aircraft  in Perth Australia.

They say an underwater search for the Boeing 777, will still continue for an indefinite amount of time.Prime Minister Tony Abbott has conceded that if anything was left floating after the aircraft had, as experts believe, come down in the ocean, it would by now have become waterlogged and sunk.

Eight nations Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Malaysia, the US, Japan, South Korea and China were involved in the search ,covering more than two million square miles.It is the biggest search in Aviation history.
Despite all the reports of pings from the black box, not a single piece of debris, stretch of oil, or a clue of any kind has been found to pinpoint the location of the plane.

MH370 lost contact on March 8 with 239 passengers and crew.

So sad ......

Bow Down!!! Beyonce named Highest Earning Black Artist of All Time

Beyonce has been named the highest earning black artist of all time following her hugely successful Mrs Carter Show world tour.According to Billboard Magazine,she earned $212 million (£126 million) for the year-long tour, and sold over 1.8 million tickets.

This means she has beaten the record of previous high earners,Micheal Jackson, Janet Jackson and Prince has overtaken previous earning records held by Michael Jackson, Prince and Janet Jackson.
Her most recent tour in Europe between February and March - earned her $41.1 million (£26m) alone.

They don't call her queen Bey for nothing.....

"Shut up and stop hitting on 'light skinned people' Stephanie Henshaw's daughter writes Lupita Nyong a memo

Guys, meet Jessica Henshaw - daughter of  Pastor Chris Okotie's estranged wife, Stephanie Henshaw.

A few weeks back, the world's most beautiful woman according to People, Lupita Nyong made a very beautiful speech where she condemned bleaching creams and insisted that black is beautiful.

Well light skinned Jessica is not pleased and here's what she has to say:

"A lot of women just have very low self esteem. It's not about being light or dark skinned even a man who likes light skinned girls wouldn't date a zombie looking light skinned girl just because she is light skinned which mean we all recognize real beauty no matter the shade it comes in.

If you choose to be dark skinned please be dark skinned and happy with it and stop criticizing people for lightening their skin to make yourself feel better. 

If you are dark skinned and you don't feel beautiful that's your problem. All I'm saying is life is too short not to be comfortable in your own skin.  Tone your skin, in fact bleach it if you want the consequences are on you. If you choose to be dark skinned that's also on you. 
 
In my opinion a lot of women who vent at light skinned people only do it because they are insecure if not they would just mind their business and focus on other world threatening issues. 

How many Nigerians die from skin cancer anyway with all the noise people make about it? I like lupita and I think she's gorgeous but I think she should just shut up with the skin color issue and stop acting so crude. It's a civilized era black people should make better speeches without talking about race and akin tone. A lot of dark skinned women have broken grounds right from time."

Who agrees with Jessica?

Psquare's publicist calls out Linda Ikeji; Laura Ikeji defends her sister

So while we were all worried that Nigeria's biggest musical group was gonna break up, the parties involved while actually laughing at the media reports. 

Their publicist  Bayo Adetu in a recent interview with Icon Weekly magazine  said it was all a publicity stunt and that celebrity blogger Linda Ikeji who broke the story properly misled us all.

He even dissed Linda and called her a mere blogger and this didnot go down well with her sister, Laura.  

Laura mocked Bayo and told him to his face that her sister earns more than Psqaure!!!

See excerpts from the interview below and Laura Ikeji's response:

"Greetings, Bayo, we heard that the Okoye brothers have finally reconciled, can you give us an insight on what really happened?

(After a long laugh…) “My brother, I'm telling you this as a friend, there was no fight at all. The whole thing started after Jude tweeted some days back and bloggers feasted on it and gave it several interpretations which never existed, and that was how we got here.


“Are you saying there wasn't a fight at all, how then did Peter and Paul keep releasing comments through their Facebook accounts?

“My guy, I can authoritatively tell you that neither of the P-Square brothers, nor even Jude operate their Facebook accounts anymore. Whatever Facebook posted was from an impersonator, pretending to be anyone of them. P-Square is active on twitter, not on Facebook, so you see, the whole thing was founded on lies.

“If what you are saying is true, why did they all tweet a re-conciliatory tweet this morning indicating that they have mended fences?

“There's one thing you should know, P-Square are not politicians, and neither are they businessmen to be worried about what one useless blogger or the other has to say about them.

“In this game, bad publicity is good publicity. When we read those funny posts, we decided to play along with the general public and what they were meant to believe.

“Yesterday, Thursday, April 24, 2014 was Jude Okoye's birthday and he also used the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend while we laughed at the stupidity of some Nigerian bloggers. Yepa!

“We later decided to further play into their hands by reaching a consensus to tweet what they have termed the 'reconciliation tweet'.

“However as a journalist, I am pained that trained journalists allow themselves to be remoted by Linda Ikeji, a mere blogger without any professional training to stall them from investigating serious news material like this. These days, immediately Linda posts anything on her blog, journalists just go there and copy and paste the story without any checks and balances, it is outrightly wrong, I'm really upset about this.

“She called me after posting the story and I just decided to ignore her calls, because I didn't think we had anything more to say when the milk has been spilt.

“I have taken my time to explain to you this way because you are a friend and did not join the bandwagon.


“As for those bloggers out there, I allowed them to write whatever they like; after all, they are consuming their internet data, not mine.”

Dear Publicist you have just successfully dented your client's image..weldone to you! 

Laura Ikeji's response

checkout our look of the day. Lol

This is live from South Africa. Hennessy shopping I guess. Boys are not smiling. Anyway, this pics was voted as our look of the day. Among several entries that were sent in, it emerged as the winner.

What do you think?

"Fuji house of commotion' producer Amaka Igwe is dead!

Respected Nollywood filmmaker, Amaka Igwe has been  pronounced dead!

She was the creator of popular TV soap,Checkmate and Fuji House of Commotion as well as the founder of Amaka Igwe Studios and Top FM Radio.

She died last night, April 28, 2014 after battling with Asthma attack.





Amaka, who hails from Obinagu, Enugu, Nigeria is survived by her husband and kids.