Mercy Johnson fires movie marketers back.

Well I guess Mercy Johnson has given us the answers to our guesses. She truly is getting blacklisted for being too expensive. She confirmed this as she took to twitter to fire back. See tweets below...

But seriously she has a point, If you can't afford Heineken, make do with Kai Kai! So if movie marketers and producers can't afford to pay Mercy Johnson they could make do with cheaper actresses rather than blacklist her, or what do you guys think?

Rita Dominic and Lynn Whitfield named Goodwill ambassadors for Africa.

 


The Executive Director and Founder of The Africa International Film Festival, Chioma Ude, has announced  the appointment of Rita Dominic and Lynn Whitfield as AFRIFF Goodwill Ambassadors. The announcement was made today during a media parley at the AFRIFF offices in Victoria Island, Lagos.

Remarking on the choice of the two star actresses, Chioma said, “Rita Dominic is a consummate actress and indeed an African screen Icon, having won several awards and nominations throughout her career, most recently she became Africa’s Best Actress by winning The 2012 Africa Movies Academy Award (AMAA) for her role in the Kenyan film Shattered . She also has won The Nollywood Movies Award, The Nigeria
Entertainment Award and City People’s Face of Nollywood Award. With over one hundred films to her credit, she has played a pivotal role in showcasing Nigerian cinema popularly known as Nollywood.” She further disclosed that it was not a difficult decision to make considering Rita’s accomplishments in the industry and the fact that she has been a regular face at, and contributor to, the AFRIFF dream from its
inaugural edition.

As for the Emmy Award winning Hollywood actress, Lynn Whitfield, Chioma said, “Lynn is a natural choice as AFRIFF Goodwill Ambassador not just for her accomplishments in Hollywood, but also because of her passionate support for the AFRIFF project since its inception.” Whitfield began her acting career in television and theatre, before progressing to supporting roles in film. She won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special and a NAACP Image Award for her performance as Josephine Baker in the HBO movie The Josephine Baker Story (1991). She also won NAACP Image awards for her work in Touched by an Angel (1998), The Planet of Junior Brown (2000) and Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004).

On her expectations from the newly appointed Goodwill Ambassadors, Chioma said, “We believe that these two talented, beautiful and popular stars will deliver maximum value to all stakeholders and participating communities, as the AFRIFF brand grows and continues to positively impact Nigeria and Africa as a whole.

In her response Rita said, “I love that AFRIFF’s focus is youth empowerment and opening doors for the development of the African film industry which is my primary constituency. I am delighted to have been appointed an AFRIFF Goodwill Ambassador. It’s an organization that I cherish and respect and I look forward to working with stakeholders in the industry, the government, the private sector and non-governmental
organisations and social enterprises to see how we can ensure that this fantastic festival achieves its objectives and full potential.”

Ex-Miss Black USA 2010, Osas Ighodaro launches her foundation.

Ex-Miss Black USA 2010, Osas Ighodaro launched her foundation called Joyful Joy Foundation Sunday, October 27, 2013 at the Avenue Suites on Tiamiyu Savage, Victoria Island, Lagos.

The foundation was created to immortalize Osas' sister, Joy who while pregnant a few years ago
 had visited Nigeria, but alas had caught malaria, complications of which led to her untimely 
demise with her yet unborn baby. 

The foundation's aim is to help bring awareness towards the good fight against Malaria. Celebrities, stars & socialites alike all came to the venue to show support for a good cause. The event began with the magnificent rendition of the National Anthem, by the sonorously blesses Seyi Shay. Comedy was by Elenu, who as usual cracked the ribs of the audience. Included as part of the event was dance by Gongbeat Production. Thereafter the thoughtfully crafted Joyful Joy Foundation theme song , which was produced by Tee Y Mix was sweetly delivered by Ella. The day's deejay was DJ Xclusive. 

The Joyful Joy Foundation was named after Osas' late sister, Joy and is is all about spreading Joy and touching lives, one community at a time. 

Some of those seen at the event were the likes of Majid Michel, Banky W, Ice Prince Zamani, 
Seyi Shay, Toolz Oniru and many others. 

See pictures after the cut...

 

 

 

Nigeria smashes Uruguay.

Seems like the Nigerian football is getting so spicy! The U-17team golden eaglets left the Uruguayan team in tears as they smashed with a 2-0 win!

The match was a heated one, but the golden eaglets made sure they were at the top of the game with Taiwo Awonyi tactically scoring the pair of goal and sending Uruguayans packing in Sharjah. 

The champions of Africa are through to the semi-finals against Sweden 5 November.

Nigeria however have played against Sweden in the group stage and there was sadly no clear winner thanks to the 3-3 draw. Let's hope this time Nigeria clearly hits it or it'll be a bye bye to a chance to get the the World Cup.

GEJ set to re-open Nigerian Universities next week with or without ASUU.

It's been 5months since the Academic Staff  Union of Universities started the ongoing strike and President Goodluck Jonathan seems to have had enough as he plans to re-open universities next week, with or without ASUU. Read the details below...

In a last ditch effort to resolve the ASUU strike, President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday, November 4, meet with the leadership of ASUU at the Presidential Villa.

An official of the Vice President’s office who pleaded anonymity told Scan News that the President will at next Monday’s meeting present to the ASUU leadership the administration’s last concession for them to call off the prolonged strike.

But if ASUU fails to call off, the Federal Government will then resort to plan B, which will be to compulsorily open the universities, using the instrumentality of the governing councils and the school managements. 
Already, most of the governing councils of the universities have started meeting to work out modalities for the compulsory re-opening of the universities should ASUU fail to honour the personal request of President Jonathan.

Scan News gathered that the Supervising Minister of Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike and the Vice Chancellors of Public Universities also discussed the re-opening of the schools last Monday. Most of the Vice Chancellors suggested the compulsory re-opening of the schools, should the last ditch efforts fail.

It was gathered that security report available to the Presidency may have necessitated this line of action to salvage the universities system from the direction it is facing.

Source: Scan News

Movie marketers threaten to blacklist Mercy Johnson

Now there are two sides of this story which I've heard, wonder which is true, but hey, my job is to give you the amebo, so I'll just tell you guys both stories...

First I heard that the movie marketers under the Film and Video Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria, FVPMAN plan to blacklist Mercy Johnson Okojie in what they call "withdrawing of service from her" due to the "unbecoming attitude of the actress as it affects her work"

They accused her  of forming the habit of disappearing while on location after she has been paid for the job and also giving them difficult conditions. The marketers have also vowed to sanction any member who disregards the association's decision to blacklist the star actress.

The chairman of the association further advices it's member to release all the films featuring Mercy Johnson on or before January 2014.

Then the second story I heard is that the association plans to blacklist the start actress because her charges are pretty high. The star actress is currently the highest paid in the movie industry, she charges between 1.8 and 2million actress whereas other actresses like Ini Edo charge between 700k and 1.2million.

40% workers retained as FG finally privatizes PHCN.

The Federal Government, Friday , officially concluded the the privatization of Power Holding company and retained 40% of it's workers. These retained workers are given temporary appointment by the Federal Government to run the newly privatized company for the period of six months.

The handing over ceremony took place in Lagos, Ibadan, Benin, Enugu and Abuja respectively.

The Federal Governement handed over three power assets in Lagos on Friday . The assets include Egbin Power Plc, Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company and Eko Electricity Distribution Company.

At the official handover ceremony of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company to it's new owner, The Kaan UtilityConsortium Nigeria, The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, stated that the government had paid out a huge sum #360 billion to workers of the defunct PHCN, further explaining that  there might be an increase in tariff as soon as the new power owners commence operation, but this problem will be solved subsequently.

The FG formerly handed over the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, to the investors, Vigeo Power Limited, which with 60% is the major investor of the BEDC.

The Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company was also formerly handed over to Integrated Energy Distribution Company on Friday at the Premier Hotel,  Ibadan. The permanent secretary of the ministry of finance, Anastasia Nwaobia, represented the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, expressing that the FG is committed to ensure uninterrupted Power supply.

The Ibadan distribution company dispenses power to Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Osun and parts of Kwara, Kogi and Niger States.

Enugu Electricity Distribution was handed over to Interstate Electricity Limited in Enugu on Friday by Sambo, giving the new company the mandate to check the epileptic power supply in the state.

Sambo further stated that privatization is a necessary tool for power regulation.

Father uses daughter as sex slave.

Wale Akanusi, 50 began to defile his own biological daughter since she was 12, for 5 good years. The victim said she had been in this pain since her mother left her father and married another man making her father to rely of her for sexual satisfaction.

Akanusi allegedly had even impregnated his daughter 3 times and aborted the pregnancies. He threatened to kill her if she told anybody about the act. However, as she grew older, the victim who is now 17 summoned courage and reported the case to the police.

Akanusi has been apprehended by the police, and is presently facing a two-count charge of defilement and killing of unborn babies at the Apapa Magistrates' Court in Lagos, SouthWest Nigeria.