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In the recent disclosure that has since gone viral on social media,  Nollywood actor and content creator Ijoba   Lande recounted how he worked on a film project under  Funke  Akindele’s production for an entire month, only to be paid  ₦90,000,  what he described as a disappointing amount. His exposure stirred conversation in the Nigerian entertainment industry knowing that Funke Akindele who is popularly known as “Jenifa” following her Television series, “Jenifa Diary” which has recently been in the news with the project hitting the Nigeria Box Office with a shocker of great height, a  feat where she became the second director to gross over a billion naira at the Nigeria box office and currently the Highest Grossing Nigerian Director in Nigerian Box Office with a total Gross of over ₦2.9 billion. Noticeably  is that Funke Akindele was also recently  honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024 by the SILVERBIRD GROUP, Nigeria. Lande...

  As a Nigerian, in most occasion the believe attached to success is sometimes synonymous to seeking "greener pasture" elsewhere around Europe, America and so on; in what has been termed "Jakpa Syndrome". But in this sensational story we are about see how a British lady believed in a black skin man from Nigeria and how she later went on to become a great name in the Nigeria societal history.  Here is the story of Dulcie Ethel Adunola a white English-Nigerian Woman. When World War II broke out David Oguntoye hid in a ship and traveled to Britain to volunteer for the Royal Air Force. He arrived in Britain in June 1942, and was selected to train as a navigator in Canada for four years. Unfortunately the time he was returning to Britain in 1946, the war had already ended, which meant couldn't be deployed on the battlefield. Instead he was posted to Bicester Oxford as a welfare officer for the Caribbean airmen stationed there. In June of the same year a young b...

  So emotional that makes one wonder if such love and affection still exist in over world. With no misunderstanding, resent times has seen relationship strive only on the existence of financial power and social status, in other words; money and connection. This definitely make one analyse and doubt if love actually exist. So many relationships nowadays are product of what we can get and not how we feel about each other. Emotions has been affected and replaced with greed and selfish interest.  On social media these things have becomes everyday thing where young adults come on live videos to openly preach their affection for money and material possession rather than the the first purpose of being in a relationship (love).  Here is an evidence of true love definition when Annie pens down an emotional message to Innocent Idibia, the popular Afrobeat megastar 2Face now also call 2Baba. "Dear Innocent, this is my first and only true love; forgive me if I have disrespected you b...

  Justice Nuagbe aka Ushbebe as popularly known a Nigerian comedian and actor has called for national prayers for music legend 2Face, claiming there is more to his intimacy with Natasha Osawaru, than what the eye is seeing, in other words, it is not ordinary and thereby insisting that the singer free himself from the lawmaker’s clutch. In a video uploaded via his social media, he particularly frowned at how the music icon follows the Edo State lawmaker around like a schoolboy. Speaking in the video, Ushbebe said: “I like minding my business but on this particular issue, I have to speak up. Which one be all these rubbish na? Which one be all these see finish na? You go dey hold legends hand, dey carry am waka like person wey you wan go drop for school. Let’s just call for prayers for legend o! “Dem go hold legends hand dey carry am waka like tata wey dem wan go drop for school. Legend supposed be legend o, 2Face free yourself. Emancipate yourself o! I like keep quiet before but ...

  It has been reported that Nigeria’s net foreign exchange reserves have risen to $23.11 billion in the first quarter of 2025, the highest in over three years from 2021 to 2024, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced this on Tuesday 1 st April. That these reserves reflect the country’s actual foreign currency holdings after accounting for short-term liabilities like FX swaps. This rise marks a strident increase from $3.99 billion at the end of 2023, signalling improved liquidity and renewed investor confidence. Gross external reserves also climbed to $40.19 billion, up from $33.22 billion. According to Central Bank’s governor, Olayemi Cardoso, he explained that growth was attributed to policies aimed at reducing FX liabilities and boosting foreign exchange inflows, particularly from non-oil sources (tax, etc.). Cardoso in his statement said; “it is the outcome of deliberate policy choices aimed at rebuilding confidence, reducing vulnerabilities, and laying the foundatio...