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A conniving aother-in-law, a jealous ex-girlfriend, and a best man missing in action are just samples of some of the hilarious characters over 1400 attendees met at the soldout world premiere of Kemi Adetiba’s The Wedding Party at the Toronto International Film Festival. Set in Lagos, Nigeria, The Wedding Party is the story of Dunni Coker (Adesua Etomi), a 24-year-old art gallery owner and only daughter of her parents about to marry the love of her life, IT entrepreneur Dozie (Banky W). They took a vow of chastity and are looking forward to a ground-breaking first night together as a married couple. Peppered with Nigerian jokes and classic double entendres that had the audience in stitches, The Elfike Film Collective’s The Wedding Party opened the Spotlight City to City programme at the Toronto International Film Festival with a star-studded, soldout premiere that brought Africa’s best known names including Richard Mofe-Damijo, Sola Sobowale, Alibaba, Iretiola Doyle, Bank...

Acclaimed gospel music minister, Samsoft, has encouraged the youths by ministering to them at a one-day youth summit organized by the Samsoft Music Ministry in conjunction with the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria Round-About Unit Youth Wing. The summit held Saturday, September 3rd at Favour Assembly along Effurum Sapele Road, Warri, Delta State, and speaking about it, Samsoft said the summit is in line with his vision of giving back to the state that was a blessing to him by supporting its young men and women of a bright future by standing as a mentor and positive role model to them. Speaking during the summit, he spoke on vision and purpose of existence and encouraged and educated the young people on how to achieve good success by focusing and investing in their vision to say no violence and yes to vision success. And in appreciation, he was given an award of honour as the patron of PFN Round-About Unit Youth Wing.

Bassey The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) founded by Nnimmo Bassey has criticized the Nigerian government’s cooperation agreement with Russia’s ROSATOM to build four nuclear power plants in the country despite the inherent dangers they portend and at a time most civilized nations are exploring safe renewables.

Alexx Ekubo is one of the hot entertainment bachelors that would be a catch for any girl out there. He however has words of warning for girls who are hopeful of him walking them down the aisle. According to him, such girls “must love our Lord Jesus Christ with all sincerity, in deeds and in purpose; must tolerate the fact he’s filled with simple complexities and complex simplicities.” Going on, he added that “I'm not here to pay for your ex's mistake. I was not there when you both were ‘doing’ so please don't punish me. I'm a huge kisser. Key word: HUGE. Please forgive me for all I'll say when I'm hungry. I love food. I really do. “I love play. I don't take myself too serious. You shouldn't too. Nobody cares. There are more important things going on in the world. Hope you love to travel, because I’m Ajala the Traveler. Please be beauty with brains, I take God beg you, because beauty fades, but an intelligent wife is forever. “Please, please, pl...

Tonto Dike is one actress that puts her whole heart into whatever she’s doing, and her latest project is definitely her son, King. Most of her posts now are about him or related to him and on the occasion of his fifth month on earth, she posted a message in which she didn’t hold back as usual. “My son, I speak greatness into you. I speak power into you. You shall grow up to be what God says you will be. You shall grow up to love and worship God. Just like your name, King, you shall rule. You will call ten people and millions shall answer. You shall never lack or know sorrow. You shall be brilliant, intelligent. “No weapon formed against you shall prosper. Every tongue that rises against you shall be condemned. You shall find favour with God, man, angels and animals. Your hands are blessed of the Lord. You shall touch clay and it shall be gold. Where others go and meet a closed door, you shall go and doors shall open for you. “My son, God has set your feet upon rocks that you shall not...

On The Real, a television series, has arrived in a new dimension by operating a unique format of combining pseudo reality-cum-drama and also incorporates running commentary by all cast members. It follows the lives of five young Nigerian reality TV stars brought together by an obnoxious TV executive and they have to balance their new fame with their regular lives as well as maintain their star status. Written by Tamara Aihie, directed by Tosin Coker, Inidinma Okojie, Funto Angel Johnson, David Jones, Akah Nnani and Nancy Isime are some of the cast.

Award-winning TV entertainment programme, Hitlist N Cruzin, which airs on AIT Network, TVC and other stations around the country has added another feather to its cap by bagging more airtime on AIT Network. While it already had 9pm Tuesdays as its usual broadcast time on AIT, it now airs 10.30pm on Saturdays as well. Speaking about the development, HNC’s presenter-producer, Mursty Adinoyi, said: “Good things come at the right time, and our additional airtime on AIT Network is definitely a very, very good thing. And being that we also won our first major award this year as the best entertainment programme on TV at the Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards, we’ll just keep working harder so that those good things will keep coming to us.”

Notable actress, Ruth Kadiri, and on-air personality, Tosyn Bucknor, are the headliners of the monthly Meets Media scheduled for tomorrow. Activities that will hold during the three-hour MM will include the reading out of media personalities’ profiles; premiere of the movie, Memory Lane, with Kadiri; celebration of Bucknor under the Media Personality Achievement section; celebrity live chats; buffet, cocktails and brand exhibitions. MM is a monthly hangout and networking circle for media professionals mainly from Nigeria. The event creates an enabling environment for communication and marketing professionals to interact with leading media organizations on how their respective companies work. This month’s edition has been designed to create an atmosphere of exciting interactions and activities for publishers, writers, broadcasters and online mavens among others to gather to interact and share ideas while celebrating their achievements. Corporate organizations, entrepreneurs, brand strat...

Two artists who have had the same fortune in recent time are Kiss Daniel and Adekunle Gold. They both shocked the industry by dropping three back-on-back mega hits that made people believe and expect that’s the way it would keep going for them. But there’s every indication that one of them, Adekunle Gold, is currently stumbling. Though he’s currently preparing to drop his debut album, Gold, his latter single, Ready, has failed to really fly like his previous singles, Sade, Orente and Pick Up. Ready is not really spreading so no one is really talking of Gold again. But while Gold’s feathers have received a sort of trimming, Daniel, who also received the same trimming with his fourth single as well, Good Time, didn’t make any mistake with his fifth, Mama, which is blowing bigger by the day. Now, with Daniel’s album, already out and well received, and his latest video, Jombo, expected to do very well, Gold will have to really up his game or it might just be the end of the fairy tale for h...

Marriage is one of the most important institutions in the world. It’s so important that it’s said that he who findeth a wife foundeth a good thing. But as good as marriage is supposedly, it seems that marriage and entertainment don’t really do well together. Entertainment is one sector that takes its practitioners away from home a lot. But marriage is a union that prefers those in it to be together at all times preferably. So how would an entertainer, male or female, take care of his, her marriage when he, she is away mostly? Because it’s not really easy to combine marriage with an entertainment profession, there are some entertainers who prefer not to get married at all, or in the alternative, marry late. These are the entertainers who do well in entertainment. They are not shackled by having to cater to spouses and kids so they are able to have all the ample time they need for their careers. Some of these set f entertainers, when asked about their marital plans, would say they’ve no ...