Netflix bought worldwide rights to the Nollywood movie, LionHeart by the Nollywood star, Genevieve Nnaji, just a day before its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).



Yesterday, being the 22nd of December, 2018, I went to see this movie.

Some people call it a comedy movie, but I doubt that that was the intention. It wasn’t meant to be a comedy, but because of the natural flawlessness of the characters, because of the presence of one of the most comic characters in Nollywood, Nkem Owoh, there came laughter.



I recently saw a Nollywood movie (name withheld) and I thought it was funny, the dry kind of funny. The funny that makes you laugh but doesn’t cross your oesophagus, and makes you feel that your laughter doesn’t belong to you. And the movie leaves you immediately you leave the hall.



But Lionheart felt completely different. The laughter that came out of me was not dry, it flowed freely like the source of it, down to the shoulders, to the heart, and to the unsilent feet, boldly stamping the carpeted floor of the hall.



I was utterly drawn by the lustrous current of the indigenous languages used. The proverbs were everything. E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.



Onyeka Onwenu is an awesome actor. The way she spoke on a particular scene completely took my breath away. She’d said, ‘you’ve always been able to do whatever you put your mind to’ in such an alluring way to Adaeze (Genevieve).



Lionheart was like watching a real family video with cultural values. And I loved the fact that this family didn’t pressurize the girl into marriage or ignore her because of her gender. I loved that this family took their company and the workers as family, and doing anything that would jeopardize their future was unacceptable.



And I loved the most that while the family sat together for lunch or dinner, that they talked like real family, real Igbo family; that there was this exhibition of fear for a boy who gets into music, that there was the tender admonition and laughter and the love that was so real and true. It equally showed a mother who believed in the dreams of her son, and you have no doubt that mothers are like this.



This movie doesn’t leave you when you leave the hall. It stays with you. It nudges you and tickles when you are walking down the street lighted by the neon lights, when you’re in the car listening to Phyno’s songs. And you’d decide in all of these that you’d see the movie again, and maybe again and again.



This movie has not gotten the hype it deserves.



https://stephenechefu..com/2018/12/movie-review-lionheart-film-by.html?m=0

What a hilarious response!

https://stephenechefu..com/2018/12/a-conversation-between-nairabet-owner.html?m=0

lalasticlala

Igbo Custodians of Culture. How do we base seniority among wives? Tag an Igbo wife.

https://stephenechefu..com/2018/12/igbo-custodians-of-culture-how-do-we.html?m=0

lalasticlala

You working abroad vs You coming back to your village for a visit.

True or nah?

#WednesdayWisdom: Make a difference by how you treat people especially when they make mistakes

https://stephenechefu..com/2018/12/wednesdaywisdom-make-difference-by-how.html?m=0

lalasticlala

Abjay97:
The Gospel Musical concert is underway and will soom go live.. The annual programme is organised by House On The Rock church headed by Paul Adefarasin... It will be great.. We will keep you updated with LIVE pics!

Feel free to post your pics if youre there!
Glory!

why can't Hillsong be invited to perform at The Experience tho? 13 years now & counting!

OpenYourEyes1:
Nice video but there is no place in book of Enoch that says the earth is flat. The Bible is clear on the shape of the earth:
"It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in" - Isaiah 40:22


Maybe the video presenter means the earth is disk-shaped instead of like a football.

great! but one thing i know for sure, is that there are actually fallen angels (who probably landed on ANTARCTICA), and mixed with women... now they wonder the earth as evil spirits, this is why there is so much evil in the world.

God save us from all evil. Amen

JJOF:
Chairman i weak 4 u o.

just watch the video bro

The movie Black Panther is breaking massive records at the box office. The black community feels that they are finally represented. But is there more at play? Why all of the sudden now does Hollywood want to promote black strength? Most of us aren't asking these questions. Black Panther is a movie serving witchcraft and the occult to the black community as being normal. Most of us don't realize it because we"re so caught up with our blackness, we put it before our God. Our blackness is an idol and it prevents us from seeing things clearly.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6trkRnenEQ

lalasticlala

The Book of Enoch has too much information that can disrupt the deception of the prince of the power of the air, and that is why it was NOT included in the rest of what we have in our current volume of scriptures.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0jjiT1Xanc

lalasticlala

Laura Lyons, a private investigator who specialises in tracking down online romance fraudsters, otherwise known as "catfish" has unmasked a Nigerian fraudster.





According to BBC, Laura Lyons posed as Kathryn Hunter - a wealthy divorcee looking for love. According to her: “It's not long before the catfish begin to bite. Four men approach me online and they all claim to be US soldiers. .



One of the soldiers, who calls himself Paul Richard, comes on strong. The number he rings from has a Nigerian dialling code. After a brief silence, a man with a thick African accent comes on the line. .



He doesn't sound like the American soldier whose picture he is using. But Paul explains away his accent by saying he has a cold. An online reverse image search leads me to the Instagram page of the real owner of the pictures the catfish was using.



For the next few weeks, my producer continues to speak to Richard on the phone as I listen in. Then our catfish makes a mistake. Richard accidentally leaves a name tag - Dan Coolman - on one of his WhatsApp pictures. .



We search through all the Dan Coolmans in Nigeria and we find one who runs a barbershop in Ibadan. He's using the same number that our catfish has been calling us from.



Coolman is another false name, but we discover the phone is registered to Daniel Joseph Okechkwu. We have finally uncovered the real identity of our catfish. We head for Ibadan, but by the time we get there he's gone.



The doors to the barber shop are locked and locals say it's been closed for weeks. We decide to call him and tell him who we really are. He confesses and claims it's the first romance scam he's ever pulled and that he has been forced to do it because of the closure of his barber shop.



He sounds sincere and he apologises for the way he has treated us. He says he wants to stop being a romance fraudster. But he needs us to give him money, so that he can afford to stop tricking other people out of their cash. It's a classic catfish twist. They never give up on the scam even when they have been rumbled.“


https://stephenechefu..com/2018/11/private-investigator-unmasks-nigerian.html

Pusha T’s tour stop in Toronto reportedly ended prematurely when the Virginia Beach rapper was supposedly attacked during his set. At his performance on Tuesday night, unknown assailants rushed him, causing his set to be cut short. From the video, it seems security put a stop to the attack, but the show was curtailed anyway. Watch the video here > https://www.instagram.com/p/BqbfCqGhONG/


Toronto is, of course, the hometown of Pusha’s lyrical rival Drake, whom he spent a sizable portion of the summer goading with songs like “Infrared” and “The Story Of Adidon.” While Drake responded to the initial provocation of “Infrared” with his own track, “Duppy Freestyle,” Pusha’s own response, “The Story Of Adidon,” was thought to have ended the open hostilities between the two after the diss revealed the existence of Drake’s secret son.


In the aftermath, Drake asserted that his withdrawal from the battle was due to the intervention of his mentor and Houston-based benefactor, J. Prince, who is well-known for his exploits during the early rise of Texas label Rap-A-Lot Records during the “wild west” ’90s of hip-hop. However, he claimed that he felt Pusha’s overt disrespect for Drake’s friend and producer Noah “40” Shebib ought to have been met with a more forceful response than he was willing to deliver himself.


Meanwhile, Pusha made his own rounds explaining the battle and told Joe Budden’s podcast that the information regarding Drake’s son came from none other than Shebib himself and was prompted by Drake’s own “Duppy” bar referencing Virginia Williams, Pusha’s then-fiancee, now-wife.


Source: https://stephenechefu..com/2018/11/pusha-t-was-reportedly-attacked-at-his.html


lalasticlala

Too many people spend money they earned to buy things they don't want and to impress people that they don't like. Anyways, always endeavor to assist those around you in need of help. Life is too short. What happens at the end when you have all the money in the world with no good deeds to your name?

https://stephenechefu..com/2018/11/too-many-people-spend-money-they-earned.html

lalasticlala

#MondayMotivation: In everything you do this new week, endeavor to do whatever makes you happy. Happy New Week.

Follow my page on Instagram for more updates

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According to Linda Ikeji's Blog, the article on the blog titled “LIB exclusive: Meet the owner of Instablog9ja - John Abayomi” published on November 15, 2018 John Abayomi was mistakenly identified by his picture as the owner of Instablog9ja.



This mistake was as a result of the exact similarities in the names of John Abayomi who is an Online Editor with Punch and another John Abayomi Aruleba who is the actual owner of Instablog9ja.



The picture identification mistake from their staff was sadly as a result of the uncanny yet not uncommon similarities in the names of these two individuals.



Linda Ikeji's Blog is happy to set the record straight, take full responsibility for the mix-up as they tender their unreserved apology to John Abayomi of Punch Newspapers for any inconvenience this mistake has caused.



The fact however still remains that John Abayomi Aruleba runs Instablog9ja with his partner, Tosin Dotun Adeyemi.



https://stephenechefu..com/2018/11/john-abayomi-aruleba-is-owner-of.html

Here is the list of all genotype combinations and the possible results. Please educate yourselves. Knowledge is power.

https://stephenechefu..com/2018/11/genotype-combinations-and-possible.html

American rapper Drake spotted wearing a $750,000 ((N272,250,000) Richard Mille RM 69 Erotic Tourbillon

https://stephenechefu..com/2018/11/american-rapper-drake-spotted-wearing.html

lalasticlala

Shout to Chris Johnson for this. Just in case you're looking for No 17, here's it. "Don't point out other people's mistakes to try to make yourself look cool".

https://stephenechefu..com/2018/11/wednesdaywisdom-27-life-lessons-worth.html

lalasticlala

Avengers: Infinity War was named best movie of the year at the People's Choice Awards on Sunday night. The superhero movie also was named best action movie and won best female movie star for Scarlett Johansson.



The show aired for the first time on E! and were broadcast live on Sunday from 9-11 p.m. from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica.



At the show, Melissa McCarthy received the inaugural People's Icon award. The actress was being honored for her television and film work, which includes playing the titular character on the sitcom Mike and Molly, as well as her roles in Spy, Ghostbusters and Bridesmaids.



In addition, Victoria Beckham was presented with the Fashion Icon award, while Bryan Stevenson, a social activist and founder of Equal Justice Initiative, was named the People's Champion of 2018.



Beckham, McCarthy and several other winners also addressed the California wildfires in their acceptance speeches.



A full list of winners follows.


Movie of 2018



Avengers: Infinity War (WINNER)

Black Panther

Incredibles 2

Fifty Shades Freed

A Quiet Place

Read more here https://stephenechefu..com/2018/11/peoples-choice-awards-marvels-avengers.html

lalasticlala

Willie XO the boss!!

OladimejiRufai:
Who killed it most?

One black dog in my area.

Yes, it rocked it better.

lmao

Wearing neck chains is the new cool. Who killed it tho? Starboy, Wizkid or The Gucci Don, Willie XO?

https://stephenechefu..com/2018/11/wearing-neck-chains-is-new-cool-who.html

lalasticlala

Check out more photos below

Absolutely amazing photos

https://stephenechefu..com/2018/11/awwww-this-is-definitely-one-of-cutest.html

lalasticlala

Beat FM OAP, Osikhena Dirisu aka Osi has revealed how Multi-media personality, Toke Makinwa once gave him his entire stolen salary.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpt-yeKBEnC/

lalasticlala

TimeMachine:
I have nothing against Canivores, but I address meat as animals and tell my cook, they can prepare what ever food but I wont eat animals, now meat disgusts me.

Even at the smell of meat, I lose appetite. So much for spiritual growth.

haha ok

lalasticlala:
My beautiful Nairaland family, I just want to announce that my young and beautiful wife has given birth.

I took her to hospital by 2.30 am, and we welcomed the baby around 8am this morning.

Will share my experience later.

Thank God...


Edited
Naming ceremony comes up on Wednesday, next week.

Thanks, thanks to all that Congratulated. I appreciate.

Congratulations Lalasticlala

A certain beautiful Nigerian lady claims she is related to catfish & can't eat it, says blogger, Stella Dimoko Korkus. Quite hilarious.


What are your thoughts on this? Could mermaids be real?


https://www.instagram.com/p/BpnPHyXhQ6H/?taken-by=stephenechefublog


lalasticlala

According to Twitter user, @Uncle_Ajala, Wizkid was reportedly paid N245.9 million naira for a show in India. Everywhere stew

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bph0oCXhJsc/?taken-by=stephenechefublog

lalasticlala

Chef Chi aka Chioma claps back at fan who called her "ugly" by revealing the face of the fan. Quite hilarious.

She posted the images on her Insta story.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bper_-eB7Jk/?taken-by=stephenechefublog

lalasticlala

stefanweeks:
U be like lizard

the agama type lol