15 Highest paid Nigerian Actresses

Have you always wanted to know why our female celebs look good everyday, with new sets of cloths and make ups(Very expensive ones), brand new cars, e.t.c... The reason for this is very simple and that is the amount they charge per script they wanna act on. Below is the list of the HIGHEST PAID NIGERIAN ACTRESSES

15. Unche Jumbo --- N 450,000 per script
14. Fathia Balogun --- N 500,000 per script
13. Mercy Johnson --- N 600,000 per script
12. Funke Akindele --- N 600-700,000 per script
11. Oge Okoye --- N 600.000 per script
10. Chioma Chukwuka --- N 700,000 per script
9. Rita Dominic --- N 1m per script
8. Ngozi Ezeonu --- N 1m per script
7. Joke Silver --- N 1m per script
6. Stella Damasus --- Goes for anything that suits her.
5. Kate Henshaw Nuptal --- N 1m per script
4. Omotola Jolade --- N 1.5m above per script
3. Patience Ozonkwo --- N 1.6 m per script
2. Ini Edo --- N 1.8m per script
1. Genevieve Nnanji --- N2m per script

Don't be Amazed....they worth it...don't they??

Why Gender Equality Is A Problem For The African Woman

Marie Elise GBEDO graduated from Law School in 1984. She is the first African women candidate for presidential elections (2001 and 2006).

As many a people are against the agitation for gender egalitarianism by the feminists, so also I am against any father who deprives his female children their fundamental human rights because they are girls, or any mother who deprives her male children of their fundamental human rights because they are boys.

In June, I wrote an article that was published in our dailies titled: ''Surname: Why Not Mother's Name?'' that article welcomed a lot of thanks from readers but mainly the thanks were replete from the women side, because the issue I addressed in that article concerned them. I regret that I could not answer the question of one man who called my line asking what could be done to influence the right of the girl-child in our society, because my cell phone was a shocker. It has outlived its purchased money. But my advice to the man is, perhaps it was only female children he has and did not intend to marry again, he should Will all his property to them. (Lawyers are in the better position to advise him). So, when the world people see him no more, his relatives won't be intimidating the wife and children, thereby causing them turn abject destitute.

In the African traditions and as well in the Christendom, except by false interpretations of the two traditions, I don't think that any of the traditions allow women headship, except by permission and in the kind of government called Democracy, which effect we have seen in a part of Europe where woman is a ''king''

The human head allowed the word, democracy, run in their senses more than it's boldly written on the Dictionary. Democracy now runs in our blood and in our veins than we could possibly explain. It is this government that brought about the axiom: “What a man can do, a woman can do better”, by the feminists. There is no right thinking mother or woman who can subscribe to that axiom, because unveiling literarily, what men do, women can't try them let alone, doing it better.

This axiom has brought divvy into many married homes today. Imagine a home where the man gives an order and the woman thwarts it because of equality! The issue of headship is no more found in our homes, because the African woman is fighting for equality with the men.

Any right thinking woman has to give the men respect, likewise any right thinking man has to love the woman the agape love. The measure of success of any (man) husband is not by mental or physical ability to make money, but by the loving and kind way he treats his wife and children.

The advent of “what a man can do, a woman can do better, by the feminists, has created the spirit of disrespect in wives to their husbands, and in girls, t the boys resulting to the men now treating the women with poorly rated love and shelve the issue of ''weaker vessel'' by the side, which women even no longer believe today they are.

Christian women no longer subscribe to Genesis 2:21-24: ''God proceeded to build the rib that He had taken from the man into the woman and bring her to the man'' And even, the Moral Man in the bible told his critics in His days: ''Did you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and the female?'' With this, can we not see that there is supremacy built in the man over the woman?

Christianity is the most saleable religion in the world today, and many cultures or traditions are dropping for it, because the knowledge of the subject is profound.

When the Creator of the world told the Man of Morality, as recorded in Genesis 1: 26, ''Let Us make man in our image, according to our likeness'', He did not say, let Us make a man and a woman at the same time. So, there is supremacy!

Even before man was created, the Man of Morality whom He, the Creator created ''Came to be beside Him as a master'', according to Proverbs 8:22-30,''the Firstborn of all creation'' He's not a woman!

The bible figuratively called this Man, Lamb of God, and it showed he's a husband. Remember? An Angel once said; as recorded in John 1: 29; Revelation 21: 9,''Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife''. We could be imagining who the Lamb's wife is but they are the Man's faithful-anointed followers. (Revelation 14:1,3).

While He was a Model to the Christians, 1 Peter 2: 21 did not terse the truth as it chronicled: ''The head of every man is the Christ; as the head of every woman is man; and the head of Christ is God''. But today, most women do not remember this or are ignorant of it, but rather do remember and use the feminists slogan: ''What a man can do, a woman can do better''. Who told you!

This slogan has corrupted the minds of these women that respect to their husbands and the role a mother is supposed to play in the house are now thrown into the bins for the much touted ''gender equality''. This is why many homes today are comatosed because the headship principle was not applied. And the family could not find success, love, peace and happiness, which are factors that shouldn't lag in marriage.

As men have been assigned the headship, if the feminists like it or not, I don't subscribe to a man dominating his wife, as many men commonly do, without blinking an eyelid. Man should assign the wife honour, treat her as a prized possession, and consider her feelings, always treating her as a human being who also deserves respect and dignity.

And, also, in all these, the woman should not forget that the proverbial goat that wanted to be fat as the cow had its anus burst.

Elaborations are much in my head, but I will close this article with the knowledge in 1 Peter 3: 3:7,''œrather a man to harshly dominate the wife, he should assign her honour as to a ''eaker vessel'', the feminine one. This is a note the African woman should understand and use.

It was not written in Africa or by Africans, but on the marble of history.

So, Gender Equality: Why A Problem For African Woman?


Story by Odimegwu Onwumere/Nigeriafilms.com

PHOTO: Ex-Governor’s Mistress Mysteriously Dies In US Mansion

PHOTO: CHIEF ORJI UZOR KALU'S POTOMAC, MARYLAND RESIDENCE WHERE MS. CHINWE MASI (INSET) DIED LAST THURSDAY NIGHT.

When a female guest suddenly dies inside the residence of a Nigerian politician it easily raises a red flag.

THEWILL can report that the mysterious and sudden death of a 47 year-old elegant woman, Ms. Chinwe Masi inside the high brow Potomac mansion of former Abia State Governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu has left family and friends of the deceased uneasy and wanting answers.

Though details of the incident are still unclear, records obtained exclusively today from the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland showed that Ms. Chinwe Masi was pronounced dead on Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 8.48pm after paramedics and fire service personnel arrived at the 14900 River Road, Potomac, MD residence of Chief Kalu in response to a 911 call made by someone in the residence believed to be Orji Kalu.

THEWILL gathered that the deceased and Orji Kalu, 50, were romantically involved but we could not ascertain the length of the relationship as at press time.

The deceased, a resident of the city of Hyattsville, Maryland who was once married to Mr. Okechukwu Ogbonna had just returned from Nigeria after a short visit. Her friends and relatives said she was full of life during her stay in Nigeria. THEWILL could not confirm how long she had been at the residence before her sudden demise, but the police said she was visiting when she died.

Montgomery police personnel have so far ruled that her death occurred from natural causes but added that an autopsy would reveal the exact cause of death. Ms. Chinwe’s friends and relatives who we spoke to however, do not believe that she died of natural causes. They allege that something diabolical which modern science cannot detect must have been responsible for her sudden passing.

"You never know with Nigerian politicians, you know our country, the Whiteman does not understand juju," one of her relatives who opted to remain anonymous told THEWILL during a call.

But a female spokesperson for the Montgomery Police said; "On Thursday 08-19-2010, fire rescue personnel responded to a 911 call at 14900 River Road, Potomac, MD. The call was not by the female who needed help. Chinwe Masi, a 47 year-old female was pronounced deceased at the scene by responders. The cause of her sudden death is undetermined. Usually an autopsy would reveal the exact cause."

Chief Orji Uzor Kalu is believed to be married to Ifeoma Ada Kalu though knowledgeable sources allege their marriage has been rocked by series of crises and scandals. Several calls to his mobile phone and an SMS were not responded to.

More to follow!

MTV VMA IS THIS WEEKEND

Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi, 8 September 2010: MTV Networks Africa announced today that Cher, Ellen DeGeneres, Katy Perry, the cast of “Glee” including Jane Lynch, Cory Monteith, Chris Colfer and Amber Riley, in addition to Rosario Dawson, Chris Pine, the cast of Jackass including Johnny Knoxville, Bam Magera and Steve-O, Kim Kardashian, “True Blood” cast member Joe Manganiello, Rick Ross and Romeo of the multi-platinum Latin supergroup Aventura, are set to present at the “2010 MTV Video Music Awards.”

In addition, the list of performances grows as Mary J Blige and Swizz Beatz prepare to hit the stage with Drake, while Bruno Mars will make his VMA performance debut at the 27th annual awards show, which will take place on Sunday 12 September at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Joining the red carpet festivities is Audrina Patridge from “The Hills” who will serve as the official MTV International “2010 MTV Video Music Awards” guest correspondent. Through special vignettes from behind the scenes, the red carpet and the main event, she will give international viewers the scoop on everything happening before, during and after the show.

A special premiere episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” will tape from the “2010 MTV Video Music Awards.” Ellen’s cameras will be on hand to catch all of the VMA red carpet highlights and behind the scenes must see moments.

MTV Style has confirmed superstar model Coco Rocha will host MTV.com's 'Red Carpet Report.' Coco will lend her style expertise to the VMA red carpet and interview celebrities about their fashion.

Previously announced presenters include: The Social Network’s Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield, Ke$ha, Nicki Minaj, Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Trey Songz, Ashley Greene, Selena Gomez and Ne-Yo. As previously announced, comedienne Chelsea Handler will host the show.

Other performers on the show include Linkin Park, Usher, Eminem, Kanye West, Justin Bieber, Drake, Paramore, B.o.B, Florence + The Machine, along with Travis McCoy, Jason Derulo and Robyn who will perform with this year’s VMA house artist, deadmau5.

The “2010 MTV Video Music Awards” including a one-hour pre-show, will premiere on MTV base (DStv Channel 322) on 13 September at 20:00 CAT (repeated on 15 September at 17:00) and on MTV (DStv Channel 321 on 13 September at 22:00 CAT (repeated on 14 September at 17:00).

The “2010 MTV Video Music Awards” will be available to a potential viewing audience of more than 1.2 billion people via MTV's global network of 63 channels reaching 605 million households around the world as well as through syndication. In addition, its convergent programming & content will reach the entire interactive community, via MTV's more than 200 digital media properties around the world.


Story by Ayeni Adekunle Samuel

Boko Haram Storm Bauchi Prison In A Jail Break Move

PHOTO: A FILE PHOTO SHOWS A BUILDING OF AN ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS SECT IN FLAMES AFTER NIGERIAN SOLDIERS ALLEGEDLY SET IT ABLAZE WHEN IT RAIDED THE SECT MOSQUE IN MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE.

The dreaded Boko Haram religious sect has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack on Bauchi Prisons saying its men carried out the operation to free its members from Western influenced trials.

The sect in a pamphlet which it circulated on major streets in Bauchi however frowned at the name "Boko Haram" saying its name is "Jama’atu Ahlissunnah lidda’awati wal Jihad meaning people struggling to restore the implementation of Islamic Legal system and Muslim independence from Christian and this wicked government."

"We don’t want to be called Boko Haram," they warned as they went ahead to commiserate with Muslims in Jos over the Jos crises.

The sect in the pamphlets defended their actions saying they were provoked by government into violence explaining that they had preached peacefully for eight years before the present government suddenly attacked them inside a mosque, one early morning and killed its members.

The pamphlet was however not signed and had no individual name on it.

The sect members said since it is the intention of government to kill its members, it will continue to fight state.

The sect wrote: "Who ever has a hand in punishing their members they will not forget him.

"Who ever wants his wife to become a widow he should get ready and we will not forget the way our members are killed in Dutsen Tanshi Police station, Yankari terminus, who ever has a hand in killing our members from the state governor down to ward and district head we didn’t forget, and you will see what you wouldn’t like."

Both the Comptroller General of the Nigerian Prison Service, Mr. Olusola Ogundipe and the General Officer Commanding 3rd Armoured Division of the Nigerian Army, Major General Saleh Maina paid separate visits to the prison to assess the situation.

Ogundipe described the attack as unfortunate while Maina declined comments.

Bauchi State main prison touched by the Boko-Haram crisis on Tuesday night. Photo: NEXT

Nneka Tells CNN Of World Of Love And Injustice In Nigeria

Nneka

It is a long journey from the Niger Delta to the concert halls of the United States, but it is one that Nneka is taking in her stride.

Nneka is a Nigerian singer and songwriter, who is making her name on the world stage and earlier this year, released her debut album and tour in the US.

At 28, Nneka is relatively a newcomer to music. She has only been singing for around five years, but wasted no time in winning over both fans and critics.

Last year, she won the prestigious MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Award in the UK for Best African Act.

Her work combines soul, hip hop, reggae and African music, but the lyrics have an unashamedly Nigerian tone, covering among her themes, injustice in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

If you speak about corruption or hypocrisy of religious leaders, people don’t want to hear that.

“My music is very versatile, very mixed. I have different influences, Afrobeat, hip hop, reggae, raga, soul, a little bit of rock and, of course, the indigenous African or Nigerian influence,” she told CNN.

Nneka grew up in Warri in the Niger Delta region with a Nigerian father and German mother. She went to university in the German city of Hamburg and it was there that her singing career took off.

She told CNN: “When I went to Germany and being in a place where you have no connection, you are confronted in a totally different culture, tradition, mentality.”

“You’re here on your own, you need to function and that’s where music came in,” she continued.

It didn’t take long for her voice to make an impression in Germany and she began touring Europe and releasing albums while still in university.

In an interview with the Sunday Times last year, Nneka said: “In Nigeria, if you say you’re a singer, people say, ‘So what? Everyone sings.’ In Germany, my voice stood out more.”

This year, Nneka is touring the United States for the first time, playing at venues such as the Los Angeles Troubadour, a West Hollywood club played by Elton John and James Taylor early in their careers.

She has been chosen by American rapper Nas and Jamaican reggae star, Damian Marley, to join them on their Distant Relatives tour.

“It’s not just a tour about entertainment or music alone, but about connecting people around the world and making us understand that we’re all part of that one entity, which is love,” Nneka told CNN. “And I’m happy that I’m the person they chose to represent Africa, which is a big opportunity.”

While Nneka is captivating audiences around the world, it is playing in her native Nigeria which is most rewarding—but also risky—for her because of the political content of her lyrics.

According to her, “I must say I feel responsible for my people. People who might not have the courage to stand up or the opportunity to stand up and speak about things that are very delicate and that people do not want to hear.”

“People can identify,” she explained, “but at the same time, there are a lot of people, especially the government, who have problems with my speaking my mind or the minds of many.

“If you speak about the exploitation in the Niger Delta, nobody wants to hear that,” she continued. “If you speak about corruption or hypocrisy of religious leaders, people don’t want to hear those things.”

Nneka gives some hint on the background to her passionate lyrics when she describes her upbringing in Warri.

“You can imagine what kind of condition that may be, growing up around pipelines, around people who are very agitated and fighting for their rights, human and civil rights,” she told CNN.

“But you know, despite that chaos and the agitation, people still are able to feel comfort and peace within the madness,” she continued. “That is actually what has triggered me into going into music and doing music the way I do it.”

Story by Bayo Adetu
Source nigeriafilms.com

‘We’re Confused In Nollywood’---Clarion Chukwurah

Clarion Chukwurah

Nollywood actress and Chief Executive Officer of Jade Production, Clarion Chukwurah, has said that confusion reigns supreme in the movie industry.

The actress, who said she could no longer bear the plague that is ravaging the industry, has also advocated the introduction of the Nigerian Movie Workers’ Union and the Nigerian Movie Owners’ Union, to regulate the industry.

The actress decried the influx of Ghanaian actors and actresses into the Nigerian film industry.

According to her, the industry is faced with myriads of problems including poorly produced films, poorly paid practitioners, low budget, lack of product publicity and limited distribution channels.

“The Ghanaian movie industry union influenced market strategy has taken over Nigerian actors’ job in Nigeria by Ghanaian actors due to lack of a legislation,” she said, describing Actors and Directors Guild of Nigeria as not true representatives of all movie makers in Nigeria and that no single body could represent the workers and owners without creating constant conflict of interest.

“I have come forward with this call to unionise the Nigerian film industry which consists of players from Northern, Eastern and Western Nigeria, the Niger Delta and the Middle Belt.

“Based on my conviction and research, unionisation is the best way to adequately serve and protect the interest of all parties sustainable for posterity,” she added.

The actress also advocated for a movie workers’ union backed by legislation that will ensure that no non-union member works on any Nigerian film set. The union, according to her, will also ensure that only professionals work in the industry.


Story by Rukayat Igbanor
nigeriafilms.com

After 22 yrs in US, I returned to Nigeria with only $100----Victor Olaotan

Victor Olaotan

Victor Olaotan, the 58-year old lead actor in the popular M-Net productions, Tinsel, is a veteran actor. He started acting more than two three decades ago when he joined the University of Ibadan theatre group, which other artistes like Professor Wole Soyinka and Jimi Solanke among others. In this exclusive interview, the popular actor, who lived in the US for more than 20 years spoke on his passion, acting, sojourn abroad, which according to him, left him 'high and dry' and his encounter with the production which offers him a new lease of life.

In the beginning

I got into acting through a teacher who was a member of Ori Olokun Theatre group in the 70's. He gave me the opportunity to act for the first time in my life. I was 15years old then. From that time, I had contact with other acting groups like Jimi Solanke, Akin Sofoluwe, Yomi Fawole, and the late Laide Adewale.

The irony of my life is that my father wanted me to be a medical doctor. I was good in Chemistry, Biology, and Further Mathematics. So automatically you know I am going to medical school. My father later died and maybe that was why I was able to do whatever I liked.
I started playing football for Water Corporations in Ibadan and they were rivals to the then IICC shooting stars, now 3SC shooting stars. I played for five years and they later disbanded the team. My parents are partly Ijesha and Ogun state.

I met with Laolu Ogunniyi, and I did another film with him before I went to America in 1978. While in America, I was involved in another professional acting. I met top Hollywood actors.

With Laolu Ogunniyi, I was able to do the first television drama in Nigeria which lasted for three hours. I became popular in Ibadan and other western states. Anywhere I went in western state, they always call me by the name of the character, Dotun Oluronbi.

When I joined the performing theatre group in the University of Ibadan, Wole Soyinka was there, Dr Dapo Adegbite was there, Wale Ogunyemi, Jimi Solanke , Tunji Oyelana were all there. Tunji Oyelana was actually an actor but he did his music underground before he later took to music professionally. With all these great people around me, I was able to blossom into a fantastic actor. Because I had the same voice with Jimi Solanke, whenever I came on stage the directors no longer bothered about Jimi Solanke. With that I did so many productions like 'Lion of the Jewel' by Wole Soyinka. We were going to all the universities in Nigeria. Then, there were only five universities, University of Ibadan, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ahmadu Bello University, University of Nigeria Nsukka and the University of Lagos.

Acting then and now

In my years of experience, I have come across every notable man that you know in the performing act, and I learnt so much. Unfortunately today, the platform does not have the enigma that it used to have in those days. Acting at that time was totally different from now. Now, it has become commercialized. Young actors who are coming today don't have the opportunity to experience the training that we had. All of them want to be stars. We had to learn the hard way. We used to rehearse from 6pm till 6am the following day. That was how Prof Wole Soyinka rehearsed. Everybody can relax from morning till evening but once it is evening, that is when he works best, and I suspect that he writes most of his plays at that time too.

The trainings I had here were very useful for me when I got to the US because I met one Hollywood actor who wanted to take me in, but because of my citizenship factor, I couldn't get in. I wanted to register with the actors' guild when a friend of mine called me that he had a production, that as professionals we should travel around. We left US and went to Canada, Europe and started acting.

Sojourn abroad

I traveled abroad in 1978 and came back in 1980. They were selecting eight and good performing artistes in Nigeria and I happened to be one of them. Others were Tunji Oyelana, Yemi Remi, Joe Adigwe, Demola Onibon-Okuta, Tayo Taiwo and others. We went to five states in United States and the president of the US at that time gave us a brooch each. It is called presidential medal. If you are giving that brooch, no matter what you do in America, you will be forgiving because it shows that you have been pardoned by the president. I don't know where I put mine till today. I lost it maybe out of youthful exuberance. I went to three different universities in the United States to study acting.
When I was in the US, I was working for a company that produced perfumes as an auditor, and I was earning $35,000 annually. Later it became $55, 000. I worked there for five years and later moved to a car manufacturing company. There I was earning $120,000 annually while my wife was earning $170,000 where she was working as an executive. We were making good money. I had about seven cars and three houses in Atlanta, New Jersey and one other city. I had to leave all that because of my tax issue. I wasn't paying the right amount of tax I was supposed to pay and in that case if you are arrested, it is either you spend the rest of your life in jail or you pay triple of what you owe. When I calculated everything, it was over $4million. There was no way I could pay that money. The reason why I became a pauper was because I left all my properties in America. I had to run back to Africa. The IRS took over all the other properties. When I came back to Nigeria, I had only $100 and my suitcase with me. I couldn't hold big money.

Back home

I came to Nigeria in 2002 and opened a computer engineering outfit which I ran from 2002 to 2005. Then a friend of mine who have a filling station asked me to join him. He saw the way I was running the computer engineering office and I didn't have the money to upgrade. I needed about N1million but I couldn't find it. So I became a petrol station dealer with my friend. I still do that now. I am the Managing Director of Con oil, Oregun.

Friends noticed that I was back from the US, so they invited me to a festival organized by NANTAP. They wanted to do an old film by Wale Ogunyemi and they wanted old time characters who took part in the original film. Since I was part of the characters in the old ones, they called me. I wanted to play the lead role, but all the characters in that film are leading roles. It is about four main characters. So Akin Lewis played Sanmi Ajao while I played the house boy. It was fantastic. After that experience, everybody started saying they didn't know I am still good as I was back then. Eventually, I had to come back into acting. The reason I didn't want to come back in the first place was that I actually studied film directing and it takes a lot of money to do a good production and because I don't have that kind of money, I don't feel good to do a less than excellent performance.

I got back into theatre and started doing some modeling. I got some Globacom adverts. I understand I have some of the adverts I did at the airports though I am yet to see them up till now.

Growing up

I had a good childhood. I was a very active young man. I used to play football because I am a very good footballer. My father was a retired policeman; he had three wives and twenty children. As a young man, I wanted to have seven children. Then, seven, to me was ideal but today I think three is even too much. I was a Catholic. I didn't have a girlfriend until I was 22year old. So when I got to 'know' women, I went wild. I had my first son when I was 25year old.

Married life

I was married in the US to an African American woman for 17 years, but got divorced in 1998, for reasons I don't want to divulge on the page of newspaper. I remarried when I came to Nigeria to my ex-girlfriend. When I came home, I didn't even know she was still available. Somebody just told me that he saw my ex-girlfriend, that she is now a serious born again Christian. She was celibate for seven years before we met. She didn't have a boyfriend; in fact I later found out that I was her last boyfriend before I traveled abroad in the 80's. After I left, anytime she fell in love with someone, they would jilt her. When I left, I couldn't come home because I had problem with my papers abroad and that was how I couldn't marry her then. So I got to meet her again when I came back but this time, she was a different person. I wanted to continue from where we left off but she said no, that she has promised God that the next man she goes to bed with must be her husband. I had to wait for six months before we got married again.

After marriage, all the excitements of wanting to be with a woman were gone. We couldn't even sleep with each other until after two weeks. I saw then that God's hands were in my life. I have a 32year old son and a daughter who is also in the US. From my recent marriage; and I also have three children from my marriage in Nigeria.

Tinsel

It was my wife that was working with them on the production aspect. We were discussing about their trip to South Africa one day, and she told me that they were about to start the auditioning. I didn't know I would be given a lead role. The job has really changed my life. We work round the clock from morning to evening. It is not a fire brigade approach like Nigeria film industry. Everything is planned. We work very hard. Every now and then and it is definitely rewarding.

Unforgettable memories

I wont forget the day my girlfriend told me she was pregnant. I almost went dead. I had to go and tell my mother, and eventually we had to go and see her family and I accepted the situation. They wanted me to sign an undertaking that I would marry her after I finish school, but I said I can't promise that. After some years, she abandoned the boy and traveled abroad.

Initially, I didn't have a smooth relationship with the boy. There was a time he was revolting. He even told me to my face that we shouldn't have given birth to him when we knew we were not going to take care of him. I was wondering if I and the mother were around, he would have had a better upbringing. I still communicate with my daughter in the US.

Another was when the IRS issued me a letter that I violated the tax law. I nearly passed out. It was trying times for me.

Another time was when my mother died. I was in America and didn't know. There was a guy in the US that had the same initials and surname with me. This guy died, so people were saying it was me. My mum believed that I was dead. When I came home in 2002, I now learnt that my mother was dead. I asked when and was told 2001. Before I came, we lost contact. I sent money for them to buy phone so that we could be communicating, but I don't know want happened. I was sending money for her but till today, I still don't know whether she got the money I was sending to her. My brothers and sisters have refused to tell me what happened.

Regrets

My greatest regret is leaving the US. I should have stayed back and fight the case instead of running back to Africa. Maybe I would have won it. I might have found a solution to the issue.

Hope for Nigerians in US

As a Nigerian, you shouldn't have any problem in the US if you don't engage in fraud or any bad thing. It is difficult to get a good job. Even the Americans don't get good jobs. If you have a good job, you will be okay. It is when people want to get rich quick that you get into trouble. I was lucky, though I didn't get a job on time, but when I got one, I lived well. I even worked for a security company.


Story by ADETUTU AUDU & AYODELE OLALERE
Source : nigeriafilms.com

The Lion July 23 to August 22

Leo! About Your Sign...
The Leo type is the most dominant, spontaneously creative and extrovert of all the zodiacal characters. In grandeur of manner, splendor of bearing and magnanimity of personality, they are the monarch's among humans as the lion is king of beasts. They are ambitious, courageous, dominant, strong willed, positive, independent, self-confident there is no such a word as doubt in their vocabularies, and they are self-controlled. Born leaders, either in support of, or in revolt against, the status quo. They are at their most effective when in a position of command, their personal magnetism and innate courtesy of mind bringing out the best of loyalty from subordinates. They are uncomplicated, knowing exactly what they want and using all their energies, creativeness and resolution to get it, as well as being certain that they will get whatever they are after. Their followers know where they are with Leonians. Leonians think and act bigger than others would normally dare; the ambitiousness of their schemes and idealism sometimes daunt their followers, their practical hardheadedness and ability to go straight to the heart of any problem reassures those who depend on them. If Leonians meet with setbacks they thrive on the adversity.

On the whole they are powers for good, for they are strongly idealistic, humane, and beneficent. They have powerful intelligence and are of a broad philosophical, sometimes religious, turn of mind. Those who are devout may become very obstinate in upholding traditional beliefs and will cling tenaciously, but with complete sincerity, to practices and doctrines which liberal thinkers regard as absurdly out-of-date. These will be found as the 'lions' of industries, and in the forefront of the cutting edge of technologies.

Their faults can be as large in scale as their virtues, and an excessively negative Leonian can be one of the most unpleasant human beings imaginable, displaying extreme arrogance, autocratic pride, haughtiness, and excessive hastiness of temper. If jealously suspicious of rivals, they will not hesitate to use cunning, lies and trickery to discredit them. Self-centeredness, greed for flattery, boastfulness, and bombast, pomposity, snobbish superiority, and overbearing, and intolerant disdain of underlings; to whom they will nevertheless delegate the carrying out of minor details in their grandiose schemes, and from whom they are not above borrowing immoderately if an occasion necessitates it. Any of these can be characteristic of Leo.
Add to them a passion for luxury, a lust for power, unlimited sexual lust, and emotional indulgence, and a character emerges that no one would want to know either in public life or private. But their pride may go before a fall, as uncontrolled impetuosity is likely to bring them low. Fortunately it is rare that a Leo is so undisciplined as to give way thoroughly to this list of vices, and their tendencies to them are usually balanced by an innate wisdom. Those who are afflicted with them also have the intelligence it takes to consciously and actively overcome them.

In professional life they do well at any vocation at which there is room at the top. As politicians they are content with nothing less than a powerful position in government. In business they may be the chairman of their company's board, or at least directors or managers. They are excellent organizers and overseers, often laying the groundwork for new projects. If from the artisan ranks of society they will aspire to become the boss, partly because they are ambitious by nature, partly because they dislike manual labor, preferring to take charge of others doing it. If artistic, Leos can become stars of stage or screen (their bent is serious rather than light drama), maestros as musicians where they will gravitate toward the grand instruments or activities, such as the organ or conducting of orchestras and as painters; anything grand in conception and scale appeals to them. Leo women make exceptionally good welfare workers.

In his or her relations with others the Leo type is open, sincere, genuine and trusting. Outgoing, spontaneously warm hearted and plain spoken, though never lacking in kindliness, Leos are more disillusioned than the average if let down by those they trust. They are not good judges of character and are inclined to favoritism and an exaggerated faith in their followers which too often ends in disappointment. They have a strong sex drive and are so attracted to the opposite sex that they find it hard to be constant; they can be so intensely sexual as to become dissolute. They may have numerous love affairs for their love of pleasure and beauty is liable to drive them from one attractive partner to another. They are very much inclined to deceive. Their marriages may fail for the same reason, yet they are sincere and generous to their lovers while love lasts, and will remain attached to their homes so long as it is run for their benefit. They demand service but are incapable of giving it.

Possible Health Concerns...

Physiologically, Leo governs the upper back, forearms, wrist, spine and heart. Its natives are subject to a number of ailments: pain in the back and lungs, spinal complaints, diseases of the heart and blood, sickness in ribs and sides, convulsions, pleasantries, violent burning fevers including, in former days, when they were prevalent, plague, pestilence, jaundice, and some afflictions of the eyes.

Source : astrology-online.com

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