Monalisa Chinda

Lagos Cougars

Royal Arts Academy presents, Monalisa Chinda (Elsie), Uche Jumbo (Aret), Alex Ekubo (Chigo), Danielle Chioma Okeke (Joke), Touitou Lugo (Lawrence), Joy Nice (Peaches) Bobby Michaels (Emmanuel), Diana Yekeni (Chantelle), Shawn Faqua (Vincent). Story/Screenplay, Emem Isong; Production Manager, Emeka Duru; Director of Photography, Austin Nwaolie; Executive Producer, Emem Isong; Directors, Desmond Eliott/Tom Robson. © 2013.  I saw Monalisa Chinda, the bright-eyed Nollywood actress who acted as the high-stepper, miss-hard-to get in Kiss and Tell but ended in Joseph Benjamin’s arm anyway.

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Uche Jumbo Debutes With Nollywood Hustler

She’s known as an actress but Uche Jombo has many titles to her name – she is a mathematician/statistician, actress, screenwriter and now you can add producer to that list! Uche is making her production debut with the movie – Nollywood Hustler which she also stars in. The movie is co-produced by Games Men Play producer Emem Isong and directed by Moses Inwang. Nollywood Hustler takes a comedic look at Nollywood; the real stars and the wannabes. This star-studded movie

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Monalisa Chinda’s Story

MY DAD WAS MURDERED IN THE CHURCH, TRAGIC STORY OF NOLLYWOOD STAR ACTRESS, MONALISA CHINDA You may not see it, but deep down, Monalisa Chinda Dejo-Richards, the sultry Nollywood actress, has been carrying an emotional wound that time has not succeeded in healing and that has made her ‘paranoid’, to use her word. Like a volcano, it is there waiting to erupt. I took just one question on the circumstances of her father’s death forMona Lisa to break down and

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