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AMAA 2010: Malawi’s Flora Suya In Top Race for Best Actress Award

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Malawian top actress, Flora Suya, is a top contender in this year’s Best Actress category at the African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), scheduled to take place on Saturday,  April 10, in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. Suya’s role in the movie, Season of a Life, earned her the nomination, alongside other A-list actresses like Ghanaian Jackie Appiah, Lydia Forson, Naa Ashorkor Mensah-Doku, Stephanie Okereke and Bimbo Akintola, who just got her first nomination at AMAA for her excellent performance in […]

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Tonto Dikeh Dates Fred Nuamah

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BY DAVID AJIBOYE Nollywood’s current hottest, richest and pretty-faced young actress, Tonto Dike, who once dated Nigerian top music producer, Don Jazzy, has found the best rhythm to her heart’s desire in Ghana, African Movie Star has gathered. The light-skinned actress, a close source told this reporter, is having a clandestine love affair with Ghanaian new actor and producer, Fred Nuamah, who also doubles as manager of Ghana’s International Boxing Federation (IBF) Bantamweight champion, Joseph Agbeko and an erstwhile radio

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Accidental Deaths in Kannywood

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TRAGEDY HITS KANNYWOOD; TOP ARTISTES DIED IN VARIOUS AUTO ACCIDENTS Kannywood, the name given to the Hausa movie industry in Nigeria has in recent times faced with the challenge of the Kano state censorship board that have been making life difficult for the industry, owing to the famous Hiyana Video. However, the industry has also been mourning the sudden passing away of its members. While some die on their sick beds after illness, majority of the fallen heroes went to

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Eucharia Anunobi in Divorce Court, Again.

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MY HUSBAND WAS SLEEPING WITH OUR HOUSE MAID-Eucharia alleges Ace actress Eucharia Anunobi yesterday disclosed to an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, Nigeria, how her husband Charles Ekwu allegedly slept with their 13-year-old housemaid several times in their matrimonial home. Eucharia made this allegation while giving evidence in a divorce suit she instituted against her husband before the court on grounds of infidelity, lack of care and abandonment. The suit was filed in 2007 but had suffered several setbacks until Wednesday

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Jim Iyke Finds Love In Jamaican Lady, Set For Alter

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Jim Iyke has been variously described as Nollywood’s playboy -a serial heart breaker, one whose motto vis-a-vis relationships with women, appears to be “use them and leave them.” Tabloid stories about his sexual escapades are in volumes, leaving many to wonder what he is looking for in a woman or if he will ever find that unique woman who will melt his heart and make him entertain the thoughts of walking down the aisle.

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Nollywood Surpasses Hollywood!

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Nigeria’s Nollywood surpasses Hollywood as world’s second largest film producer – UNESCO The Nigeria film industry otherwise known as Nollywood has overtaken Hollywood and closed the gap on India, the global leader in the number of movies produced each year, according to a new United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report released today.

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Nollywood Actress Thelma Okoduwa Weds In Style

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Nollywood star actress Thelma Okoduwa took a bold step recently and walked down the aisle with her long time boyfriend, Onya Ojiji. The white wedding took place at the Blue Island Event Centre in Lekki, Lagos. Thelma who is well-loved by her Nollywood colleagues had fellow actress Rita Dominic as her Maid of Honour while various Nollywood stars including Uche Jombo and Genevieve Nnaji were in attendance. Their guests danced into the night away with the couple as they celebrated

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THE THRILLS AND FRILLS OF 2009 AMAA

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The fifth edition of the annual African Movie Academy Award (AMAA), which ended last Saturday night, April 4, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, sprang up surprises among the audience. Many least expected the outcome of the award ceremony. The fiesta saw films from other African nations dominating their Nigerian colleagues. Stakeholders in the entertainment industry were in agreement that the award winners deserved the award, given their hard work and commitment.

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Exclusive Interview With Nkiru Sylvanus

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I GOT LESS THAN $5 FROM MY FIRST MOVIE -NKIRU SYLVANUS By David Ajiboye Nkiru Sylvanus could be said to be one of the very few actresses who have climbed the ladder of success through dint of hard work. She emerged on the scene in 2000, in the movie, Cry For Help.  Her above interpretation of her role in that movie has not only left a lasting impression in the heart of producers, it has left her permanently in the consciousness

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Tonto Dike

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By David Ajiboye “I intend to be in Nollywood for a long time,” says actress Tonto Dike. “I’m so sorry for the delay and recourse I have made you go through, sir,”  Tonto Dike, the fast rising Nigerian actress, who was one of the first housemates of the Next Movie Star, pleaded as she settled down in her Murano SUV and pleads with the director of the film on which location she was to have this chat with African Movie Star. That the screen siren

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