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Why I’m backing Tinubu, not supporting Funke Akindele — Bimbo Akintola
Nollywood actress, Bimbo Akintola, has explained why she has pitched her tent with the All Progressives Congress, including its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the 2023 elections.
The prominent Nollywood actress revealed this in an interview she granted Television Continental recently.
Akintola said she belong to the APC Presidential Campaign Council.
She said: “I am with the PCC.
“I’m working for Asiwaju.
“And I’m also with CGI (Connecting Grassroots Initiative), which MC Oluomo started.
“What we are doing is going door to door.
“First and foremost, Asiwaju built talent.
“He found people who can do things.
“Look at his cabinet when he was governor.
“Those are the names we call now.
“We see (Babatunde Raji) Fashola, (Yemi) Osinbanjo, Wale Edun.
“And they are the so-called young names we call in politics.
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“And they all came from where?
“It’s because Asiwaju sourced them and brought them on.
“We would be excited about the changes that would happen in this country.”
Akintola said one of the reasons she is backing the former Lagos State Governor to emerge the president of the country was his support for the creative industry.
She said: “I know he has a vision for Nigeria, which is crucial.
“Where we are in the world right now, if you know you don’t have a picture, you shouldn’t try to serve.
“He has an idea.
“Tinubu has supported so many people.
“Our industry for one.
“You don’t need to know him to get support.
:When we lost Moji Olaiya, and she wasn’t in the country, he flew her in, he paid for everything.
“So many actors have received help from him.
“And he doesn’t know them from anywhere.”
When asked about her colleague, Funke Akindele, who is Peoples Democratic Party deputy governorship candidate for Lagos State, Akintola said: “I think more and more people who feel they have a service to give to this country need to step up.
“Nigeria needs all the help.
“They should step up.”
She noted that she has currently been speaking up because of how other people try to downplay her choices.
Akintola added: “Normally, I don’t share my politics or what I believe on social media, but because of how people are attacking others, I said no, we won’t be bullied.
“Every Nigerian has the right to make a choice.
“My choice might be different from yours, but it doesn’t change the fact that we are both Nigerians.”
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‘Tiwa Savage paid IT expert to wipe sextape off internet’
‘Tiwa Savage paid IT expert to wipe sextape off internet’
Nigerian singer, songwriter, and actress, Tiwatope Omolara Savage, popularly called Tiwa Savage, has spoken up about her leaked sextape and the fears she faced during the period it rocked the internet.
Recall that in October 2021, the renowned Afrobeats queen revealed that she was being blackmailed over a sex tape.
The Nigerian singer stated this during an interview with Power 105.1 host Angie Martins in New York.
Tiwa Savage disclosed that the sex tape was one she did with someone with whom she is currently in a relationship.
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She said that her manager had sent her the video that had been sent to him by the blackmailer.
However, few weeks later, a video clip of her and her lover in compromising positions hit the internet.
Speaking on the issue three years after the incident, the ‘Kelekele love’ crooner noted that her biggest fear at the time was her son Jamil seeing the clip.
However, she noted that she paid an IT expert to wipe the clip off the internet and everybody’s phone.
“My biggest fear about my sex tape leaking was that my son might one day see it,” she said. “But I got in touch with an IT expert who hacked the video from the internet and everyone’s mobile device. Right now, you can’t find it anywhere. Even if you had it stored on your phone,” she added.
The Afrobeats queen is set to premiere her debut Nollywood movie, Water & Garri, on May 10, 2024.
‘Tiwa Savage paid IT expert to wipe sextape off internet’
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Nollywood actor Zulu Adigwe is dead
Nollywood actor Zulu Adigwe is dead
Another Nollywood actor, Zulu Adigwe has been reported dead.
Zulu Adigwe, actor and singer most recently featured in the 2019 blockbuster Living in Bondage: Breaking Free.
Adigwe was born in Enugu where he spent most of his childhood, but moved to Austria where he attended primary and secondary school.
Prior to acting he studied French and German, worked as a teacher, and briefly studied Medicine before returning to Nigeria after his father’s death.
He enrolled with the University of Ibadan where he studied Theatre Arts, graduating with First Class Honours.
Adigwe’s interest in acting started when he was seven.
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His earliest appearance on Nigerian television was in Basi and Company where he played the lead character Mr. B, replacing former actor Albert Egbe who left the series after a dispute with the show’s creator Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Adigwe’s introduction to the cast saw Mr. B re-invented as a guitar-strumming layabout composing and singing get-rich-quick ditties.
He also performed Basi and Company’s new theme song, and an album coinciding with the series – Mr. B Makes His Millions – was released under Polygram Nigeria in 1990.
In 1991, Adigwe was among the original cast of Checkmate, playing lecherous university lecturer Monday Edem in the pilot episode, but the role was recast after production moved from Enugu to Lagos. His first movie was Blood of the Orphan, which earned him acclamation and recognition.
In 2004, he also starred in Living Abroad, directed by Elvis Chuks and also starring Ernest Asuzu, Emeka Enyiocha, and Anne Njemanze.
In 2019, Adigwe featured as Pascal Nworie in Living in Bondage: Breaking Free.
Nollywood actor Zulu Adigwe is dead
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JUST IN: Yoruba actor Baba Ijesha appeals conviction
JUST IN: Yoruba actor Baba Ijesha appeals conviction
Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, has asked the Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, to set aside his conviction by a Lagos State High Court over the sexual assault of a minor.
But dissatisfied with the judgment, Baba Ijesha approached the appeal court to challenge his five-year jail term.
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Baba Ijesha through his counsel, Kayode Olabiran on Tuesday, April 23, told the appeal court that his client was set up and that he acted according to a script that he was invited to act on by his colleague.
“The Appellant was set up. The Appellant is an actor. He acted in a script that he was invited to act by his colleague (PW1), Damilola Adekoya,” he said.
But the Director of Public Prosecution, Dr Babajide Martins, urged the court to dismiss the appeal for lacking in merit and also a misconception.
He urged the court to affirm the judgment of the lower court.
JUST IN: Yoruba actor Baba Ijesha appeals conviction
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