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  • Kate Henshaw marks 54th birthday in style

    Kate Henshaw marks 54th birthday in style

    Veteran Nollywood actress Kate Henshaw is celebrating another year around the sun  and she’s doing it with grace, beauty, and gratitude.

    The ever-ageless screen star on Saturday, via her Instagram page shared stunning birthday portraits, as she extends gratitude to God for keeping her through the years.

    In her words:“Thank you to the King of Kings. I am still standing only because of your grace and mercy. I choose joy and gratitude till the end of my days.Cheers to another year loaned.”

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    Henshaw forayed into the movie industry over two and a half decades ago.

    She gained prominence for her role in the 1993 movie ‘When the Sun Sets’.

    Since then, she has established herself as a prominent name in the Nigerian movie industry, with numerous awards and recognition to her credit.

  • How I bonded with the surrogate who made me a mother – Ini Edo

    How I bonded with the surrogate who made me a mother – Ini Edo

    Ini Edo, the Nollywood actress, has shed light on the emotional and ethical dimensions of her surrogacy journey.

    The movie star, who welcomed her child via surrogacy in June 2023, revealed that she chose this path after experiencing multiple miscarriages. Her desire to become a mother, despite not being married, motivated her decision. 

    Speaking at the Meet Surrogate Mothers free IVF conference, Edo emphasized that her surrogate was much more than just a carrier of her child. 

    She explained that she and her surrogate shared a deeply collaborative and emotionally charged relationship, and that she was actively involved in every aspect emotionally, medically, and personally. The award-winning actress also stressed that surrogacy should never be reduced to a mere business arrangement.

    “For me, the journey was intimate and not transactional. The surrogate who carried my child was not a stranger from a nameless system. She was a woman with her own family, her values, and her dreams,” she said.

    ‎”She wasn’t a vessel. I was involved every step of the way. Intended mothers are typically involved in parental care, prenatal care, medical decisions, and emotional bonding during pregnancy.

    “Even though they are not physically carrying this child, they walk the journey together. Even though they are not physically carrying this child, they sort of walk the journey together.”

    Edo also called for stronger legal protections and urged society to approach surrogacy with empathy and transparency.

    The 43-year-old actress commended recent legislative efforts in Nigeria, including a proposed bill by the house of representatives to ban commercial surrogacy.

    “…We need a new narrative that champions ethical surrogacy grounded in informed consent, legal protection, and mutual respect,” she added.

    “The world where no woman is being exploited but also where no family is ever denied hope simply because their path to parenthood looks different. Surrogacy is not perfect, it needs regulation, transparency, empathy but it’s not a factory.

    ‎”It’s a bridge between despair and joy between strangers who become families between the impossible and the miraculous.

    “Talking about regulation, I was happy to recently read in the news that the House of Representative moved to ban commercial surrogacy in Nigeria and further proposed the jail term and two million find on corporate other keep provisions of the bill.

    “Other key provision of the bill apart from the ban on commercial surrogacy are the agreements must be strictly altruistic which means no financial profits is involved, except for re-enbossing medical and pregnancy related expenses.

    “Two, explicit protection against coercion of forced surrogacy arrangements, amongst others. We need legal protection and clarity.

    “The Nigerian law should recognise and protect the right of mothers through surrogacy, ensuring full legal parentage and avoiding court to disputes. Surrogacy deserve respect not stigma.”

  • Nollywood actress Remmy Njoku raises alarm over high circulation of fake drugs in Nigeria

    Nollywood actress Remmy Njoku raises alarm over high circulation of fake drugs in Nigeria

    Nollywood actress Mary Remmy Njoku has raised an alarm over the circulation of potentially fake or ineffective medications in Nigeria, citing her personal experience with food poisoning on a film set.

    The mother of four via Instagram recounted how she purchased a certain medication from a well-known pharmacy chain in Nigeria, but after taking the medication for three days, her symptoms persisted.

    However, when her husband bought the same medication from abroad, she experienced rapid relief within five minutes.

    Njoku questioned the quality of medications sold locally, noting that this was not an isolated incident. She urged the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to take immediate action, warning that substandard drugs pose a serious public health threat.

    In her words she said, “I want to share a recent experience: I had food poisoning on a set and sent a staff member to buy Imodium from a well-known pharmacy chain in Nigeria. A medication I’ve used many times before. I took it for about three days, but my symptoms persisted. Then my husband bought a tiny tablet of the same Imodium from abroad, and after taking it, my stomach issues subsided within just five minutes.

    “This isn’t the first time I have noticed a difference. So I have to ask: What exactly are we being sold in Nigeria? What’s going on with our drugs? This is a public health risk, and NAFDAC must take it seriously. This is very dangerous.”

  • How I was blacklisted for rejecting filmmakers’ sexual advances – Actress Moji Afolayan

    How I was blacklisted for rejecting filmmakers’ sexual advances – Actress Moji Afolayan

    Moji Afolayan, the Nollywood actress, has revealed how film makers blacklisted her for refusing their sexual advances.

    The 57-year-old actress, during a recent interview on Oyinmomo TV, explained how her refusal to engage in “casting couch” practices led to a drastic decline in her career.

    Moji alleged that during the era when film marketers dominated Nollywood’s financing, many producers expected sexual favours in exchange for movie opportunities.

    The actress said that due to her upbringing and personal principles, she refused to comply.

    “This is because, at that time, when we had marketers at Idumota, they used to give producers money to work,” she said.

    “However, due to the kind of training I received at home, I cannot trade my body for movies. My husband, who married me, has not even done anything. You will notice that I am trying to speak in proverbs.”

    Moji, said that because of her refusal to give in to the sexual demands, they, the marketers decided to punish her.

    “Because I did not do it, they held a meeting among themselves not to call me,” she said.

    “I did not sleep with them. I did not offer my body for sex.”

    The actress added, “Many of them will have their husbands outside while the wives will be with them inside. I am exposing their secrets now.”

    Despite being denied movie roles, Moji said she never compromised her values.

    “It was because I did not offer myself for sex that they denied me movie roles,” she said.

    “I thank God I stood with my dignity. That is what I am enjoying today. I held on to my virginity. I stand out among them now.”

    She also narrated how a late female colleague, who also rejected sexual advances, was turned away by a marketer at Arena.

    “The lady at the time told me to continue with my nobility,” she said.

    “She narrated how the marketer told her how he had slept with people in the industry.”

  • See threat letter Iyabo Ojo received before fire razed her building

    See threat letter Iyabo Ojo received before fire razed her building

    Priscilla Ojo, the daughter of Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo has taken to social media to share a threat letter her mother received weeks before a fire gutted her office in Lagos.

    Recall that there was a fire accident at the office of actress Iyabo Ojo. The 47-year-old shared the news on social media late Tuesday night, expressing gratitude that no lives were lost in the incident.

    Taking to her Instagram story on Wednesday, Priscilla described it as “a threat to life and a strategy to ruin JP2025,” the hashtag associated with her recently held wedding in Tanzania.

    The letter which was dated May 24, and signed by a group identified as “Aggrieved Group,” reads: “You put someone in trouble and you out enjoying giving out your daughter in marriage abi? O ma laya o. you can’t escape in the next 3 Months as we are out monitoring you. Watch out. We shall render that your Daughter married useless and rubbish it with scatter scatter. That your daughter will not enjoy her marriage. Sebi we are all there on that wedding day. Watch and see.”

    The newly wed explained that the letter was dropped off at her mother’s office, the same one that caught fire on Tuesday.

    “Sadly, on the 24th of May, this letter was delivered to my mother’s office [the same one that was engulfed in fire yesterday],” she wrote.

    “Strictly speaking, it was a threat to life and a strategy to ruin JP2025. Fortunately, she was en route to Tanzania for my wedding, which didn’t give her the opportunity to read the threat letter till her return.”

    According to her, the incident was a backup plan after the initial threat to ruin her wedding ceremony failed.

    “The unfortunate incident of yesterday, 8th July, 2025, is their PLAN B as their plans to ruin JP2025 failed woefully!”

    “We shall eventually detect the face of the delivery agent and show the public and the police at the right time even though more CCTV has been mounted both in her office and at home.

    “A close look and reading at the threat letter it read in parts ‘that in the next three months, they would be monitoring us’!”

    She also questioned the target of the attack.“Wondering an office my mother owned for eight years! Hmmmmmm..!

  • Popular Nollywood actress shares reason for having children with different fathers

    Popular Nollywood actress shares reason for having children with different fathers

    Nollywood actress Oluwakemisola Apesin, popularly known as Kemity, has opened up about the life circumstances that led to her having two children from two different men.

    The actress whose stage name, Kemity was derived from her real name Oluwakemisola Apesin and that of her children, while speaking in an episode of Talk to B hosted by actress Biola Adebayo, disclosed that her first child came after she got pregnant for the man who disvirgined her.

    She added that he later died under tragic circumstances. According to the mother of two, the pregnancy happened while she was still preparing for her WAEC exams but was unable to marry the father of her child at the time because her mother insisted she prioritise education.

    She chose catering and eventually began teaching to support herself and her child, adding that people often criticise her without knowing her story.

    She said, “I have two children for two different fathers. The person I gave birth to my first child for was the one who disvirgined me and that was how I got pregnant. I was about to write my WAEC at the time. My mum loved education, so she insisted that all her children must be educated.

    “She agreed that once I had furthered my education a bit, I could get married to him. My mum also asked me to learn a trade and I learnt catering. I and my baby daddy still kept contact but he later traveled to Malaysia.

    “When he got back to Nigeria, he was killed in a hotel. He spent four years abroad and when he came back, he did not inform anybody, even I was not aware. It was someone who called my mum to inform her about his arrival. It was obvious that he was robbed and that was how I became a widow.

    “Many people come online saying how can I have two children for two different fathers, they do not even know my story. Nobody prays to have children for different fathers. That is why I tell people that I am a widow and it was not because I was divorced.”

    Addressing her second relationship which led to to the birth of her child, the actress said it ended due to infidelity despite the couple getting married legally.“

    She said, “We had a court wedding. When the issue of extramarital affairs came up, I was already living with him. When I gave birth, he was working in a fuel station, while I took up a teaching job.

    “When I was done with the day job, I did extra lessons too. I started noticing that he was acting strangely, he was no longer loving. He would be on long midnight calls claiming he was talking to his boss but I knew it a woman.

    “You know we all have our limits and when I got to mine, I told him.”

  • Tragic as fire razes Iyabo Ojo’s office building in Lagos

    Tragic as fire razes Iyabo Ojo’s office building in Lagos

    Iyabo Ojo, the Nollywood actress, has taken to social media to express gratitude to God for sparing her life and that of her workers following a fire incident at her office.

    The 47-year-old actress via her Instagram page on Tuesday night shared the news, saying, “This just happened today the 8th of July 2025 around 7pm. My office building caught fire.”

    The video shared by the mother of two captured the extent of the damage caused by the fire. Burnt furniture, scattered debris, and smoke-blackened walls were seen in the short clip.

    Thankfully, the Lagos State Fire Service truck were on the scene to put out the fire. The actress also appreciated the fire service, and her staff for their quick response in containing the situation.

    “Thank you to the Nigerian Fire Service and my staff for salvaging what was left. Thankfully no lives were lost,” she added.

    The actress who did not disclose the cause of the fire, noted that how God intervene even though the devil tried to test her, she said, “The devil tested us today but God said no. With God on my side we will bounce back bigger and better.”

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    Following the sad news, fans and colleagues alike took to the comment section of the post, to express their sympathy and support.

  • Why I supported Princess during Baba Ijesha’ rape case– Iyabo Ojo

    Why I supported Princess during Baba Ijesha’ rape case– Iyabo Ojo

    Iyabo Ojo, the popular Nollywood actress has opened up on the reason she threw her weight behind comedienne Princess during the Baba Ijesha alleged rape case.

    Iyabo during a recent interview cited her own personal experiences of being molested multiple times, which according to her, drove her to speak against the abuse, emphasising the need for societal change.

    Iyabo who expressed her disappointment on how adults manipulated the story and attacked the victim and Princess, stressed the importance of setting a positive example as entertainers.

    She stated that she holds her fellow entertainers to a higher standard, especially when it comes to issues like this, and feels strongly about calling out wrongdoing within the industry.

    In her words: “I was taken aback when I saw adults manipulating the story and even coming for the child and Princess, and that made me know we have a long way to go in Nigeria.

    “You’ll notice when I kick, I kick when my fellow entertainers do wrong, because I feel like we are supposed to do right by our people, that’s why we are entertainers. We are also evangelist because if we’re playing a bad role something bad must happen to the person playing the bad role, we are preaching, we cannot be preaching and doing the same bad thing that we’re telling people that is wrong, so for me it gets to me more when a known person does something wrong.”

  • Sharon Ooja marks first wedding anniversary, says its such a blessing

    Sharon Ooja marks first wedding anniversary, says its such a blessing

    Sharon Ooja, Nollywood actress has taken to social media to mark her first traditional wedding anniversary with her husband, Ugo.

    To commemorate this special day, Sharon took to her Instagram page to share a heartwarming video from their traditional wedding ceremony, expressing her gratitude to God for the gift of a beautiful marriage.

    In her heartfelt message, Sharon described her traditional wedding as a dream come true, and Ugo as her dream man. She acknowledged that their marriage is a testament to God’s grace and favor, and that she prays silently every day for the sustenance of their union.

    She wrote: “Happy traditional wedding anniversary to me and my husband!
    Thinking back to this beautiful day, I can’t help but smile!!! I had my dream traditional wedding and married my dream man. Oh, we are pure and living evidence of God’s grace and favour. Every day, I just say silent prayers to God for the gift of a beautiful marriage because it’s only God that sustains. And where God provides, He heavily protects.

    Thank You, God, for all You’ve done for me and mine!!! It’s been such a blessing being married to my other half. I’m soooooo grateful to God for all He has done and is still doing for us.
    As I celebrate the anniversary of my traditional wedding while we count down to the white one.
    I pray God grants you all you require and gives you a partner that not only complements you mentally and spiritually, but someone you can grow in Christ with. I’m sure you remember this day as much as I do”.

    The couple’s traditional wedding ceremony took place on June 27, 2024, in Abuja, where they dazzled in Idoma traditional attire. This anniversary celebration comes after Sharon and Ugo marked their first civil wedding anniversary on February 22, 2025.

  • I always pray for Nigeria’s healing whenever I visited Buddha temple – Ini Edo

    I always pray for Nigeria’s healing whenever I visited Buddha temple – Ini Edo

    Ini Edo, the Nollywood actress  recently shared her experience visiting the Big Buddha Temple, where she made a heartfelt wish for Nigeria’s healing and well-being.

    Describing herself as a tourism enthusiast, she expressed her passion for exploring diverse cultures, foods, and ways of life.

    She disclosed that during her visit, she prayed for Nigeria to get the healing it desperately needs.

    “My favourite thing about travelling is getting to explore diverse cultures, food, religion and ways of life as a Tourism enthusiast. I have always been intrigued by the Buddhism religion so I went on to visit the Big Buddha Temple.

    “I sha made a wish that Nigeria will get the healing we so desperately need .. Twas indeed an experience and yea , Thai food makes me feel sooo at home spicy and fresh,” she said.