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Ladylite:
The only shows that can compete with BB9ja are shows that contain no privacy, sex, and unruly behavior....

Shows that will damage the character of youths in the society...

People these days will never celebrate good shows that promote character, career skills, etc

This is accurate!

My reaction looking at the whopping numbers reported in income by Bigbrother Nigeria.

240 million votes at 30 Naira per vote, raking in north of 7 billion Naira. The show of course creates Nigerian celebrities but my observation is that, Big Brother is an international brand. If BBNaija can generate this amount, then the Nigerian market can develop its own reality shows and competitions. Multichoice is also not a Nigerian company.

We should seriously look at our own home bred programs coming up like The www.7thPicture.com and may be we will finally take control of our entertainment industry, especially TV shows.

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Interesting stuff. But don't let Baba hear you bruv

The International community is taking a keen interest on Nollywood and Nollywood businesses. I was shocked to see http://9flix.com featured on an international news outlet.

My favourite is this Nollywood films app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ww9flix

True.. There are always ugly sacrifices in order to win.

EUROBOMBER:
In our own case Nigeria had to use starvation.

War is not a christmas party.

World War II was a deadly conflict, it killed millions of soldiers and innocent civilians. It was a war that had to be won at all costs. Some of the tactics employed are unthinkable in this modern day but they were what needed to be done in order for the allies to come out victorious over the axis.

1. Countless Human Sacrifice in the Front Lines: The Soviet's red army lost more than 10 million men in the eastern front. It was the necessary cost of stopping Hitler's troops march to Moscow with powerful weapons like the German machine guns and the Panzer tank. Endless ground troops were sent to face the advanced German weaponry. They were basically marched into a slaughter.

2. City Infernoes: A number of cities were completely set ablaze with air raids and fire fights when they were contended by opposing troops. Including Italian cities, the German city of Harmburg and the Russian cities of Kursk and Stalingrad. Thousands of civilians burnt in the blazes.

In modern day, Unless for military and communication targets, Cities are not indiscriminately targeted in warfare.

3. Poor Working Conditions in Weapons Assembly Lines: In the assembly lines of war hardwares in the US, workers worked very long hours in order to out manufacture and out supply the Germans in weaponry to the front lines. When the workers tried to unionize and strike, President Roosevelt threatened to enlist them in the army unless they returned to work.

4. The cost to animal rights: I'm not sure if there's an existing estimate on the number of horses killed during the war in Europe. The Soviet used specially trained dogs to deliver IEDs on a suicide mission to moving German vehicles.

5. Use of the Atomic Bomb: The US used the atomic bomb, twice, in order to take Japan out of the war. Atomic warfare is unthinkable today as it may lead to a full blown Global destruction.

The World today has many rules to conventional warfare that classify so many things as war crimes including the use of chemical or biological weapons. In the day of politically strong workers unions, PETA and the Hague, can desperate wars be won?

Source: Naijastartups http://naijastartups..com.ng/2015/08/3-things-that-helped-win-world-war-ii.html

hahahahahahha

Dencia.. The Queen of African body augmentation.. see when she was dark and flat http://9flix.com/watch/989

She looks very different in this video http://www.9flix.com/watch/4516

Kunle afolayan.. the most artistic creative mind in Nollywood. If you doubt it, go and watch Phone Swap and the backstory behind the making of it. simply genius

Phone Swap by Kunle Afolayan - http://9flix.com/watch/124

YEMI ALADEEEEE my star crush. but it's her UKWU that drives me crayyyy!!! Check it out here ---> http://9flix.com/watch/2189 It Takes Me Over

Have you noticed every other week a new technology startup becomes a billion dollar company? These companies haven't even been listed on the stock market and more than 100 of them a valued at $1 billion +. It is starting to look like the last dotcom crash when too much money got into too many companies and when investors realized it was too much, it all came down crashing quick.

Are we in a similar situation today? Are these companies raising much more money than they should? I just read this piece titled "My Bubble Evaluation" http://naijastartups..com/2015/06/my-bubblevaluation.html

It brings up a few arguments but insists we are still in safe territory. What do you think?

I bet most of the started up poorly.. smh. poor man don suffer for Naija o. Na to hustle till we die coz these girls want chapaigne like in this movie http://9flix.com/watch/2123

This has to be it


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf4IvDTiF0M?list=UUq8ObOVINBHUu3n9OlalkzA

This is going to be the future of Nollywood. thumbs up

For now it is "ANTIQUE" it is awesome from the screening.

Yeah, good to be an insider watch a flick here http://9flix.com/watch/1066

I can remember only a few times of recent that I hit a mood low or a mood high without seeing or reading whatever caused the swing from an email or a webpage. We are so attached to technology, I mean really deeply emotionally attached, not just addiction to our phones or the Internet.

It's weird that we now (especially those of us fully immersed into technology and make our livings building or marketing it) feel our happiest and/or saddest not through interacting directly with our fellow humans, but by interacting with their avatars or messages we receive electronically and read on our devices.

Either receiving an email about a job or a funding, or having your follow request turned down by your Instagram crush, these could all be extreme highs or lows for your mood and to another person whom isn't you, they may find it hard to understand why you are suddenly excited or looking somber from just looking at the screen you have held too close to your face.

We have trusted our deepest emotions on something that may or may not be real. We get attracted to people on social media without ever knowing what's really behind the screen at the other end of the conversation. Anyone who had used Yahoo messenger before Facebook and Twitter knows that some bots can actually hold a conversation.

Even worse, sometimes we make faces of the smileys we are about to send to whomever we are chatting with. Yes I have smiled hard before sending a big smile and frowned in real life before sending that angry face smiley. Some of us probably blow kisses and raise their eyebrows before sending such smileys.

May be this is a stage in the evolution of our emotions and we can't just cut the cord, disconnect or throw these devices away. These devices are not turning us into Cyborgs but they are probably changing the way we feel emotional about the events in our lives.

Companies like http://outbrain.com have studied our online emotional behaviors and are cashing in ad dollars on the data. Their banners are created and written to push our emotional buttons like curiosity, surprise and more and they have huge click through rates compared to any other banners and can now be found on many top sites like most major news sites.

Research has shown that our buying decisions are generally based on emotions not rationality and if this is so, no wonder tech companies have such huge valuations since technology controls a lot of our emotional behavior now. Companies that can tap into our emotions also have the advantage of spreading virally. Take a look at the growth of social networks, they don't make us feel like we are dealing with technology, they make us feel like we are dealing with other people. Which is true, technology is just the channel. Now, special (emotional channels) sites like http://singful.com that let you customize greeting songs, wedding, birthday and welcome home songs and send to your loved ones' emails are making us resort to technology to emotionally connect with our loved ones.

Whenever you receive a Singful message and smile, you automatically start thinking about others you could also send such messages to and make them that happy. In my experience, I sent my Mum a song called "Dear Mom" and coincidentally her birthday was just days away so I went back to the site to send her a birthday song, now she is planning to return the favor this month.

Even though a few psychologist warn us about what technology is doing to our feelings and how addiction to it can rewire our brains, I think it's not all bad. It can be used to manipulate our emotions but it doesn't hurt to find a way to make people you love feel good.

I don't know about Nigeria.. but in Africa I guess Nadia Buari could someday because of her talent and of course looks..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFtGAWwBCnc

I think Emma Nyra should be at the top here, she has the prettiest eyes among Nigerian celebs. Just watch in this video before she signed with MMMG http://9flix.com/watch/33

Rent should be one quarter 1/4 of earnings..

Interesting idea. This is a good one out of Nigeria. Good for Nollywood too.

He really got this one..... nice track.

I don't think Sesan should be number 1, he only likes showing off girls' BUMS like in Silifa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBZntsZdRog

and The Kick http://9flix.com/watch/557

Interesting and insightful piece I read at a Nigerian Tech blog, post was written by a Nigerian.

read...


Ideally, tech startups are supposed to disrupt huge traditonal businesses, break monopolies, make products and services better or cheaper for the consumers and all in all, make living a much easier hassle for humans. Most inventors or tech entrepreneurs start out with such dreams and end up making a huge fortune on the side. Building a successful product or service in tech, especially something on a Global scale like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, has been a surefire way to become insanely rich. So, why am I saying that if you want to be the World’s next richest, don’t start a tech company?

The truth is, the World has changed, the tech industry has matured and is divided into countless verticals that no single company could control any considerable part of what would make the founder richer than the movers and shakers in other Global industries, also, in tech, business disruption happens very fast with the continuous invention of more advanced technologies so it is pretty difficult to stay on top.

Prior to recent happenings in the world of billionaires and finance, I had always thought that the world’s next richest person would be an innovator and a futuristic thinker. I had always pictured a scenario where the Google founders would replace the need for phones and other gadgets with their not so cool glasses, wrist watches, other wearable gadgets and selling us smart self-driving cars while making themselves a lot of money to be the World’s richest. I have also pictured another scenario where a serial entrepreneur and risk taker like Elon Musk would provide most of the world with the smartest sustainable energy solution while breaking space travel frontiers and making himself the richest man on earth from some sort of space mineral or energy source discovery may be. Ok, obviously I have watched too many Sci-Fi movies, but you get the idea.

Well, even though there is still a lot of money to be made in technology as most major tech stocks right now are arguably undervalued and the Internet of everything is about to make tech companies more valuable and bring in new riches to new comers and even incumbents, I still think it really doesn’t take any tech skills or innovation foresight to be the next richest man on the planet.

Tech is becoming more diverse and specialised that there is hardly any chance for anyone holding a monopoly like what Microsoft had in the early days of personal computing. Also, disruption happens fast so even if you do manage to invent something and enjoy some sort of monopoly, it won’t take long before someone in a dorm room in Stanford or anywhere comes up with a better, cheaper or even free alternative that you are forced to either buy them out or watch them take a slice of your business or even worse, new companies coming out of Asia that don’t mind getting very slim margins to get (spoil) hardware market share for example

Reality is, throughout history and even now, you don’t really need to be an inventor or have as much smarts to have all the money in the world. You only need to be a fast moving business mind for identifying where opportunities are coming, seeing potential growth sectors right before they pick upand being savvy enough to startup and quickly acquire good control. It also has a lot to do with a great dose of luck, being in the right place at the right time. Like how Warren Buffet admits to being lucky he was born in America just before the development of their financial system. So, do you think you are lucky to be born in Africa right before an enormous economic growth on the continent?

Look back in history at the Vanderbilts, the Rockefellers, and of course, Bill Gates, they all controlled probably the fastest growing vital industries of their times and........................

continue reading >>>> http://www.techsuplex.com/2014/07/21/next-richest-person-isnt-building-tech-company/

Well there's this new actress who's name I forget but I'm sure should make the list. She appeared in this movie http://9flix.com/watch/980
ONE NIGHT IN VEGAS

These guys got me running mad with laughter with this their special mess episode


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJgftWtows?t=4m

If you are a fan of Nollywood and the rest of Nigerian entertainment, you must have noticed a shift in recent times. The movies and music videos coming out of Nigeria's entertainment hub are more or less right now in competition with one another for daring levels of indecency, and the fans, at least the ones that consume these contents online seem to be liking it.

The problem with this is that with time, creativity will be lost and views and/or sales will be based on uncreative indecent acts in a movie or music clip. This came to my realization when I noticed a movie which was produced by Nollywood in partnership with it's Ghanaian counterpart Ghallywood. The movie is titled "Greedy S*x" which amassed around 1,500,000 million Youtube views in less than a Month. More producers trying to attract more eyeballs are throwing away their God given movie making talent and creativity just to achieve the same amount of views.

I am in no way criticizing the indecency, I don't want to judge anyone on here, but I believe it is dwarfing the growth of the entertainment industry in many ways. Here is one example, cutting a movie trailer if you ask any experienced movie maker is surely one of the creative parts of making a successful movie. It does the important task of selling a movie to the audience, in Hollywood at least. Right now these producers highlight the most indecent parts of their movie as the trailer. Simple. No thought put in the process anymore, just a collection of indecent parts of the movie and BOOM!!! You have yourself a trailer.

Some movies may not be even indecent enough but the producers are forced to make the trailers look that way just so viewers flock to view and the numbers grow. The thumbs of the videos are made to look as *** as possible top attract clicks. I think if this continues this way, there will be no need for any real creativity in the entertainment industry as clips like the one below, even though totally decent and creative, attract hundreds of thousands of views for all the wrong reasons.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf4IvDTiF0M&feature=share&list=TLP1Dbk51G7UJINhR2TlPmvwcnxlScMvDV

The earlier video was removed by Youtube. Here is a more censored version.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGJSOtyDOB4