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  • How celebrities stormed Funke Akindele mother’s burial

    How celebrities stormed Funke Akindele mother’s burial

    Nollywood artiste and one of the big faces in Jenifa’s Diary, Paschaline Alex, Cyndy Samson and others joined their colleague, Funke Akindele, as her mother was finally laid to rest

    The actress-turned-politician could not hold back her joy, she expressed gratitude as celebrities stormed her mother’s burial ceremony on 11th of March 2023.

    Funke Akindele’s sister, Olubunmi Akindele, shared a video of herself at the event of her mother’s burial.

    Sharing the video on Instagram, Olubunmi wrote, “Ose Oluwa o baa oju ati eyin #IyaBunmi jee……Halleluyah si iwo Olohun wa!!!! Thankful and grateful to the most high God!!!”

    How celebrities stormed Funke Akindele mother’s burial

    Paschaline Alex shared photos she took with Funke Akindele at her mom’s burial on Instagram, with a graceful caption about the deceased.

    “We joined My Woman @funkejenifaakindele to celebrate the life of her beloved mother as she was laid to rest.

    “May her gentle soul Rest In Peace. We miss you, Mama Racheal Bolanle Akindele.”

    Funke Akindele, grateful about the turn up for her mom’s burial, took to Pachaline Alex’s comment section to express her gratitude.

    She wrote: “Thank you, my love.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Funke is the deputy governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State.

    On Tuesday 12 July, 2022, the Funke announced she would be PDP’s deputy governor candidate for Lagos State, the country’s economic capital.

    The Nollywood star, best known for her ‘Jenifa’ character, has a law degree from the University of Lagos. On Twitter, Akindele said she believed she would be a “breath of fresh air” in politics.

    On Tuesday 12 July, popular Nollywood actress Olufunke ‘Funke’ Akindele announced she would be the deputy governor candidate for the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for Lagos State, the country’s economic capital.

    How celebrities stormed Funke Akindele mother’s burial

    The Nollywood star, best known for her ‘Jenifa’ character, has a law degree from the University of Lagos. On Twitter, Akindele said she believed she would be a “breath of fresh air” in politics.

    She would be running alongside Azeez Olajide Adediran, a journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist popularly known as Jandor.

  • Actress Juliana Olayode shares struggle with hypersexuality

    Actress Juliana Olayode shares struggle with hypersexuality

    Nollywood actress, Juliana Olayode has opened up on her struggle with hypersexuality, revealing that it is becoming more difficult for her to abstain from sex.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Olayode, popularly known as Toyo Baby in Jenifa’s Diary, made the disclosure on her official Instagram handle.

    The 27-year-old lamented how her mind keeps craving for sex and that it has been difficult for her to abstain.

    “I have never struggled sexually like I have these past few months. I was almost thinking I was bewitched.

    “I decided to share my struggles, just to encourage at least one person and so some of y’all who think I have “super powers” would know that I have flesh and blood just like y’all and abstaining from sex/staying sexually pure is a decision I have to constantly make everyday,” Olayode wrote.

    She also went on to say that with the pressure from her body within, it is almost as if she doesn’t understand how her body functions again.

    She concluded by saying she was considering getting married to help curb her sexual desires.

  • Censors Board invades Alaba, seizes pirated copies of movies

    The National Film and Video Censors Board has snatched many copies of Nigerian movies and duplicating machines from pirates in Alaba market.The items seized were revealed on Monday at a news conference in Lagos.

     

    The NFVCB worked in partnership with the Movie Producers Association during the task.

     

     

    The invasion follows an amendment to the NFVCB bill of 2016 signed into law by the Acting President in March 2017, which states that the release of illegitimate works attracts a maximum of three years jail term or a fine of N500,000.

     

    Stakeholders like Alhaji Abdulrasaq Abdullahi, Chief Eddie Ugbomah, Saint Obi, Yinka Ogundaisi, Gab Okoye, Funke Akindele and others attended the briefing.

     

    The board’s Executive Director, Alhaji Adedayo Thomas, said, “The raid is the first in the series of national enforcement against unclassified, unapproved and operating an unlicensed film and video distribution and exhibition business which will be carried out in Nigeria through the National task force.

     

    “This is a subtle signal to persons distributing unclassified film and video works, persons distributing film and video works not registered for distribution in Nigeria, persons operating film and video distribution business without appropriate licence, persons distributing film and video works on premises not licensed and all persons profiting from the sweat of film and video creative directors without proper right assignment that they should find other business as the Board under my watch will not rest until we get rid of them from our industry.”

     

    Big budget movies like ‘Wedding Party’, ‘Jenifa’s Diary’, ‘Wives on Strike’ and A trip to Jamaica were among the movies pirated.

     

     

  • My relationship with Funke Akindele-Lota Chukwu

    My relationship with Funke Akindele-Lota Chukwu

    Nollywood actress Lota Chukwu is popular for her role in “Jenifa’s Diary”. The Enugu State born actress studied Agricultural Economics and Extension at the University of Benin. The beautiful actress who once contested in a beauty pageant has opened up on her greatest fear as an actor.

    Speaking in an interview with Pulse TV, she said:” My biggest fear as an actor will be not being able to positively impact people with my career. I don’t want a career that begins and ends with me”.

    When asked about her relationship with Funke Akindele, she said:”Funke Akindele is our mother on set. She is very attentive to the individual needs of everyone. The relationship I have with her is kind off the same . Jenifa is someone who loves to care for everybody, and of-f set it’s the same”.

    Speaking on how she handles rejection after an audition she said:” When you don’t get called back after an audition, It can be painful, sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some”.

     

  • How ‘Bad pay’ made Toyo Baby quit Jenifa’s Diary

    It is no longer news that Funke Akindele and Juliana Olayode who plays Toyo Baby on Jenifa’s Diary have gone their separate ways. According to TNS, Toyo Baby was cut off from the popular TV series for requesting an increase in pay which didn’t go well with Funke Akindele who feels she rode on the platform to become popular.

    Sources revealed that Funke Akindele via her production manager and younger sister – Abimbola – pays actors between N3,000 and N150,000 (per episode/season of the show) depending on the role.

    An actress who spoke under conditions of anonymity said Funke Akindele pays her actors miserable amounts of money. She said she was paid ‘Peanuts’ after being part of an all-night party scene on Jenifa’s Diary.

    In her words:”I got a text message from Sceneone Productions that I had been selected to act on Jenifa’s Diary and I will be part of a party scene. I was so excited that I told my entire family about it. Mind you, it wasn’t my 1st time acting but d feeling of being on Jenifa’s diary was a big deal for me. I was asked to come with 5 different party costumes. Location was Amen Estate, Eleko. After filming with over 30 girls the whole night, Funke came to address us and advice that money shouldn’t be our priorities at this stage; that was when it occurred to me that something awkward was about to happen….just then, the Production Manager, Mr Osmond whispered something to Funke’s sister, Abimbola & she started paying us each 3K. Can u imagine?, 3K for all night shoot!…on Jenifa’S dIARY!… I was so mad, some of us had to turn down the money shaa….couldn’t face my mom to explain to her wat happened the next morning”.

    TNS reports that actors like Lota Chukwu, Omotunde Lolo 1, Falz D Bahd Guy (who has also left the show) and Olayode are the highest paid actors who take home 150k per season.The rest take home much lesser money. Celebs like Tiwa Savage, Toke Makinwa and others who have had cameo appearances on the show reportedly got between 100k and 300k for ‘showing face’.

    Toyo Baby hasn’t been associating with Funke Akindele and there are reports that the duo have unfollowed each other on Instagram.

     

  • Amazing! Twitter user gets a role on Funke Akindele’s Jenifa’s Diary

    Amazing! Twitter user gets a role on Funke Akindele’s Jenifa’s Diary

    Budding comedienne and actress, Feyisayo Agunbiade was just joking on Twitter months back when she begged for a role on Funke Akindele’s Jenifa’s Diary. Funke replied her tweet and asked her to send her contact details. Months later, Feyisayo ended up landing a role in Jenifa’s Diary.

     

     

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BS9mmkbleSv/?taken-by=modabella.kom

    Funke Akindele gave her a platform to express her talent and made her dream come true.

  • I met my wife, Funke Akindele on set of her drama series, Jenifa’s Diary – Husband, Skillz

     

    Funke Akindele’s husband, Abdul Rasheed Bello, popularly called JJC Skillz has revealed that he met his wife, Funsho Akindele on set of her drama series, Jenifa’s Diary.

    The popular rapper said he fell in love with his wife at first sight.

    Speaking in an interview with The Punch, he said: “Absolutely, it was an instant connection. In fact, it was love at first sight. I saw her, she saw me and, we saw stars. From that point on, everything was aligned.

    “Ask every single man that is married, they will tell you the same thing. It is the same qualities that every man wants in a woman.

    “To be honest, I do not want to talk about my personal life. My wife is my baby and I cherish her a lot. If I start giving you all the secrets, people may want to snatch her from me.

    “The truth is I work really hard all the time, and a lot of the people I dated in the past used to complain that I did not devote time to them. But now, I have found my better-half who works as hard as I do, so it is a perfect combination, and the world is in trouble because we are the perfect team.

    “As I am playing music, she is making me laugh. We have the perfect synergy, and what we are working on right now will blow people’s minds away.

    “And I want to advise people in the entertainment industry to go and look for their better-half within the same industry, because it will give you more focus and direction.

    “As an entertainer, marriage changed a lot about me. It has made me more focused. It has also given me more stability and peace of mind.”

    On the feeling that inter-marriages in the entertainment industry do not work, Skillz said, “Pray to God for direction because I did a lot of prayers and God answered. Different things work for different people. All I know is that God has given me what works for me.”

    “I once said I was wary of any kind of emotional attachment but in life, when you find the right person, nobody needs to tell you to settle down. It is like finding God; you may be a bad boy in the club today, and the next day, you’re in front of the church shouting ‘Halleluyah.’ Nobody can determine when that change will happen, and I’m very happy that it has happened to me.”

    He disclosed how he met his wife, saying: “She had an idea called Jenifa’s Diary that she wanted to do, and she was looking for a good director and cameraman, so she called me to help her shoot the TV series, and that was how we met.”