Saturday, October 31, 2009

Ije, the movie.




"IJE tells a tale of Chioma, a child growing up in the Nigerian countryside, who warned her restless sister, Anya, about the trappings of the American Dream. Now ten years later, Anya is accused of killing three men in a Hollywood Hills mansion—one of them her record producer-husband. Chioma travels from Nigeria to Los Angeles, and with the help of a young, unproven attorney, discovers that the dark secret her sister wants to keep hidden might be the only thing that can win her freedom."

It stars Genevieve Nnaji and Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

It will be released in March 2010...



One word! Brilliant. I cant wait oh. Naija movies are stepping up oh, at least some few and that would pave way for more, believe me. Thats always the starting point. I just cant wait to see this. The synopsis sounds nice and like it would be a good movie. Seems it would also hit the cinemas, fingers crossed!

Monday, October 26, 2009

Omawumi's Wonder Woman set for release in November!


We loved every performances of hers during Idols West Africa in 2007, we were marvelled by her diversity, talent and uniqueness. We clamoured for more and watched in excitement and when she didnt win, we were disappointed but Omawumi Megbele has gone further from just being the 1st runner up of the Idols West Africa competetion to being a force to reckon with in the nigerian music industry. After Idols, she did her first single "In the Music" which blew people off and with the video, the fan base sky rocketed. She also went on to win two headies at the Hip Hop World Awards (for Next rated and Best female Vocal), she got nominated at the Sound City Music Video Awards and presently Nigerian Music Video Awards for Best Choreography, VOTE HERE FOR OMAWUMI


We all awaited the album but she just wasnt in a hurry, this sweet voiced diva made it clear that her album whenever it dropped was going to be worth the wait and we planned to savour each moment, and its time to wait no more. Omawumi Megbele shortly after releasing a banging video of her single, "Today na today" which is also making waves at the moment is set to release her album "Wonder Woman" which is one of the most anticipated albums in naija and i see it hitting insane numbers in the market.


The release is slated for 2nd week in November and the album cover is just breathtaking, surely a glimpse from what to expect from the album. Lagos, Nigeria, Africa, brace up for the biggest thing to hit you. The diva has emerged.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

BRAND NEW:Omawumi-Today Na Today Video!

This is brand new from the queen herself, Omawumi and this is steaming hot! The video, which was directed by Kemi Adetiba for Dragonfly Productions, was entirely shot in Lagos by an all-Nigerian crew. The costumes, makeup, cinematography,lightening, all was on point. Big ups to all those that worked on it. With this our thirst for that album strengthens... PS: Omawumi's debut album, "WONDER WOMAN" drops soon so guys watch this space!
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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Omawumi sets to release much anticipated album, "WONDER WOMAN"


One of naija's finest and soulful songstress, Omawumi Megbele is set to release her debut album which has been highly anticipated. I can categorically tell that her album is one of the "Most anticipated albums in nigeria" at the moment, and i hear its dropping this OCTOBER. Also dropping soonest is her video for the hit single, TODAY NA TODAY which was directed by DRAGON FLY PRDODUCTIONS and i hear the video is heavy. The album, "WONDER WOMAN" includes collabos from Waje, NaetoC, Shank etc. It promises to be a trail blazer once released!


We are waiting!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

18 year old Jon Ogah wins Naija Sings!


The maiden edition of Naija sings has come and gone leaving 18 year old, John Oga the eventual winner of the 100,000 us dollars and a chance to perform at this year's edition of the Channel O music video awards (Huge heh?). I was constantly following the show and even though his win is quite debatable, he surely deserves it, he is young, has the looks and charisma and with the right crew i can only see him soaring higher.

Jon clinched the price beating fellow finalists, Tamara and Tarila to it. The finale also witnessed duo performances from the contestants and already established nigerian musicians like Jon performing alongside J-martins, Tarila and GT the guitarman, Tamara and Faze and Wande Coal also blazed the stage and did his thing.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Dramas, Lights, Action at "Through the glass" premiere....


Between being harrased by a really big muscle man and getting the evil eye from Fathia “don’t take my picture” Balogun, I managed to get gists and a few pictures at the premiere of Stephanie Okereke’s new movie “Through the Glass” this past Sunday.

First, I got my ticket to the event by entering and wining a contest on facebook. I was elated because I had heard so much about the film, and here I was going to the premiere for free, and a chance to witness what promised to be a great event.

The event was held at the Silverbird Galleria on Ahmadu Bello in Victoria Island, Lagos. Like I expected, the event was graced by many Nollywood celebrities like Chidi Mokeme, Eucharia Annunobi,Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Mona Lisa Chinda, Kanayo O. Kanayo, Ngozi Ezeonu,Patrick Doyle, Zik Zulu Okafor, Tchidi Tchikere, Emem Isong and Other celebrities and socialites like Grace Egbagbe, john Fashanu, 2face Idibia and Sammy Okposo



With all these people in attendance, I started taking pictures immediately I got to the red carpet. I was only on my 5th or 6th shot when some gigantic looking man tapped me on the shoulder. He asked if I had a press pass, I said no but I had an invitation which I was holding. Imagine my shock, when this man physically moved out of the way. The worst thing was that there was a white man right in front of me who had the same colour invitation and doing the same thing but Mr. Hefty did not even go near him not to talk of asking him any questions. This is what we have to deal with in Nigeria. Our own people treating us like dirt but you have to learn to show tolerance or else you stand the risk of going bonkers.



Apart from the above incident, I can report that the red carpet event was colourful. The event proper did not start until 7pm although red carpet commenced at 4pm. When it finally kicked off, Patrick Doyle was the MC. He started by introducing celebs in the house and showed us clips of Stephanie during her ghastly motor accident years back and her healing process. This was indeed a touching moment, especially when she now came out to give a speech with two co-actors who flew all the way from Los Angeles to grace the occassion.

THROUGH THE GLASS is a romantic comedy that deals with issues of responsiblity, abuse, trust, betrayal and acceptance. It tells the story of Jeffery a promiscous and unserious lad who constanly gets reminded by his rich CEO father of how unreliable and inefficient he has been on being MD of the company and how he stands the risk of loosing his job if he doesnt show any form of seriousness or commitment to his job. He also has a strong bad repuation of being a womanizer and so when he finds a baby abandoned at his door steps, he is no least shocked and so were the welfare officers and police who strongly believe the baby could be his. Amidsts diificulties and tension, Jeffery with the help of his nigerian neigbour Ada( stephanie okereke) are able to take care of the kid and jeffery becomes fond of him but soon the junkie carefree mother of the child discovers how much money she could be making from the government by being a mother and decides to take her son back but Jeffery is ready to give it all he has got, he isnt ready to let go of that one person that has ever made him happy and content and doesnt criticize him.



All in all it was okay, simple story, no complicated plots, nothing extra-ordinary, even dialogue was as simple as it could get. My star of the movie was the little baby who cried at the right moment, stopped when it was needed and i couldnt just help but think it was all pre-planned towards the baby's moods. I didnt also understand why not even a scene throughout the movie could show us what the baby was called, they called him "baby" through the whole film, at least Jeffery who was getting so fond of him could have named him something, even the biological mother called him baby throughout, strange!. And whats with everyone having sex when they are either supposed to be at duty or place of responsibility eg Police man when jeferry called to report found baby, Nicole, jef;s ex when he called to find out if she could help with the baby.....and even Jeffery in the office scene, not a bad idea, but sometimes i would rather a writer be more dynamic and with a unique sense of style when writing to make it come as real as possible, i almost did take some stuffs with a pinch of salt....I dont intend spoiling this by giving out too much since its unreleased...all in all it was a well attended event and not a bad start for a proffesional career, big ups to the NEXT PAGE PRODUCTIONS team.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

VIDEO: Genny on Oprah!


Okay,finally bringing to you the video of Genny's feature on Oprah's show,though not the full video, just a short clip, at least to let you have a little peep at what actually happened.

For those who havent heard, Nigerian Actress, Genevieve Nnaji was featured on Oprah Winfrey's show on an episode "Meet the most famous people in the world of entertainment" and she came out as "the most famous actress in Africa", with montages of her flicks, pictures and a mention by the one and only O.....big ups to Genny! Still havent recovered from the shock, lol.



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