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  • Love In Every Word actor, Uzor Arukwe declared Nollywood’s biggest deal

    Love In Every Word actor, Uzor Arukwe declared Nollywood’s biggest deal

    Nollywood actor, Segun Arinze has declared Uzor Arukwe as the biggest actor in the country.

    The veteran actor during a recent Interview praised Uzor’s performance as Odogwu in the trending movie Love In Every Word, describing him as the biggest deal in Nollywood at the moment.

    “Love In Every Word—Uzor did so well in that film. He is the main deal right now, he is the biggest deal right now. Oh my God Uzor, I am so happy for him because he has walked his way up the ladder and he finally got what we call ‘the actor’s chunk.’ I am so happy for him!” Segun said.

    Expressing his gratitude, Arukwe reposted a clip of the interview, writing, “This is the most humbling video I’ve come across on the internet today. Hearing a veteran like Uncle Segun, whom I respect so much, sing my praise really put me in my feelings. Thank you so much, Uncle Segun, for your kind words. This video made my day”.

    Released on Friday, March 7, ‘Love In Every Word’, which was produced by Nollywood actress cum filmmaker, Omoni Oboli and written by Mfon-Abasi Inyang, explores themes of love, emotional resilience and communication in relationships.

    Former Big Brother Housemate Bam Bam and actor Uzor Arukwe starred in the movie, among others.

    The film gained traction, amassing over seven million views within four days of release.

  • How I lost my girlfriend to another woman – Nollywood actor Arukwe recounts painful experience

    How I lost my girlfriend to another woman – Nollywood actor Arukwe recounts painful experience

    Popular Nollywood actor, Uzor Arukwe has recounted how he lost his girlfriend to another woman.

    The movie star during a recent interview with media personality, Mr Mautin, explained how he was out with his woman when another woman started making passes at her.

    According to the A Tribe Called Judah star, he felt it was nothing, but when his girlfriend left for the restroom, the other lady followed her and tried to kiss her.

    Speaking further, Arukwe said that the woman exchanged numbers with his woman and after a while, his babe told him, she wanted to spend the weekend with this lady.

    The Nollywood star disclosed that his relationship began to go down the drain from then onward.

    He added that the experience made him weary of seeing girls together who claimed to be friends.

    In his words;‘’We were dating and she fell in love with another woman. I could see what the girl was doing to her and she was telling me ‘Babe, are you seeing what this girl is doing?’ and I was like ‘Yeah’. Then my girl goes to the loo. The girl follows my babe and my girl comes out and she rushes back and she was like ‘This girl tried to kiss me in the bathroom” and I was like ’ Did you kiss her back?’ and she was like ‘No!’. But I could tell it was a new experience for her. It was fresh. The girl came back, she was feminine. She wasn’t really a stud.

    “She was a woman and she had done this too many times and she knew that that girl was going to fall for her because she came back and she looked at me d#ad in the eye and she was like ‘Hi, what’s up? Can I get a drink?”.

    “She was very confident. She wasn’t a guy and so I wasn’t going to accost her and ask what are you doing with my girl.

    “I just thought it was nonsense and that this was going to d!e on arrival. Two weeks down the line, I saw two of them talking more and more on the phone, giggling…The next thing I heard was I am going to spend the weekend with this girl and I am like what about me? She was like she had been with me since and that she was like she just wanted to go and spend a harmless holiday with this girl. And that was it. After that holiday, the next thing I started seeing was ‘the way I screamed’, ‘the way you did this’, and ‘you finished me’ We just started having a lot of arguments about it”

    When asked how it made him feel to see it was a woman who ‘snatched’ his babe from him, Uzor said;

    ‘’I felt very…if it was a guy, we fit throw blow…I would hardly fight for a woman unless it’s worth it but I mean if it was a guy, I would have accosted him and said that’s my girl, what are you doing with my girl?  What am I going to tell her? I would go and tell a girl to leave my woman alone? I didn’t know how to go about it.

    “For the longest time, I couldn’t talk to girls because If I saw a girl, I would assume that they were dating. I just didn’t like them. I was weary of them because it hit home. It hit my core”

  • ‘I was jobless for a year after Etisalat fired me’ – Popular Nollywood actor opens up

    ‘I was jobless for a year after Etisalat fired me’ – Popular Nollywood actor opens up

    Nollywood actor, Uzor Arukwe, has opened up on his journey into the movie industry, recalling how a popular telecommunication Company, Etisalat sacked him in 2012.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Uzor during a recent chat with media personality, Chude Jidenonwo, said he was sacked while hoping for a promotion from specialist to manager after years with the telecom firm.

    According to the thespian, he ‘took the fall’ for an incident in his department since he was the team lead.

    Uzor said an attempt to get into Nollywood also failed, stressing he was jobless from November 2012 to November 2013 with nobody calling him for movie roles.

    However, when he eventually started getting roles, he was paid N1,000, N2,000, and N10,000 and even received “thank you for coming” as payment at one point.

    He said, “I worked in telcos. I worked in retail and sports. To be honest, I was fired from Etisalat, actually. I do not think my mum even knows. I was fired sometime in 2012. Something happened in my department. I was heading the team at the time. Then something happened I had to take the fall as the leader.

    “…Five years after, when I came to a place where I was hoping to become a manager, I had become a specialist, and then this happened. It was one of the hardest things ever. They stripped me of everything that makes you think you have a job. I tried to get into film sometime in 2012, but it was really slow.

    “The only gig I got between 2012 and 2013 when I got my second job was some stage drama. Seyi Babatope got me the gig. That was the only gig I got between November 2012 when I was fired till December 2013. I was at home for one year and had no job. Nobody was calling me for films. It was terrible.

    “I was like I think I should go back. I dusted my certificate again. And somehow I got a job again. There then for another five years. And then in 2018, I was like I think I am done. I think I have tried. I left my company in April 2018 and got my first gig with Iroko on August 28, 2018. At this time, I was broke, busted down, and had no money. It was so bad that I was saying prayers at noon.”