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ItsModella: He also directed a movie called "In the Cupboard" I watched it at Ozone this summer. In it was Ini Edo, Uti and some other people. To say the movie was good is an understatement. It was awesome. I watched Edikan on Africa magic, it's an Ibibio movie..it was very funny and interesting. In it was Ini Edo, Nse Ikpe Etim, Ini Ikpe, Moses Armstrong, Ime Bishop Umoh and some others. Desmond Elliot is the director to look out for these days.

I didn't watch the movie but I looked it up. I guess he is selective with his scripts and might be the reason he hasn't been directing much but I am looking forward to Reflections.

I'll watch Edikan tonight

phela: He directed a movie titled Book of Chronicles by uche jumbo due to be released, I am a cast in that movie with likes of Gordons. So this is not Desmonds debut.

@ the bolded, till its announcement then. Too soon to publicise.

She has released another statement explaining the whole story in detail. Sorry its long guys.

My name is Dorothy Njemanze and this is my 29th September experience.

Having successfully rounded up with my Ability talk show on Love 104.5FM earlier that morning, I did what I could for the group creating awareness on World Heart Day. I ate at about 8.00pm. Ojiugo who went to buy the food told us about how when she had gone to buy the food, she was chased by people from a bus without a number plate and she ran into Drumstix, wuse2. She was terrified. We calmed her. I ate, dressed up and was made up by Justina for the Ambassador for peace beauty pageant in Sheraton where I was to feature with Abuja artistes in a special peace presentation.

I drove out with Justina. I was to drop her before going to the venue. I had to see my brother at Dreams Garden down the street. I parked behind a bus, got down alone to see my brother briefly. As I was passing the bus,a man wearing a head warmer approached me, stopped me by applying pressure to my breasts with his hands and ordered me to enter the bus. Offended at his contact with my breast, I raised my voice at him to attract attention and avoid being kidnapped. He wore no name tag on him. He pushed me from my chest into the bus, I pushed my way out and shoved him then three armed soldiers dressed in camouflage and helmets joined him to beat me. 2 people on mufti joined too. One of the soldiers cocked his gun and ordered me to go into the bus. I saw Justina rush out of the car and start screaming my identity. I was doing same. I told them I parked behind them, showed them my car keys but they wouldn’t listen. What we were saying made passers by look closely and when they identified me, the gathered crowd was speaking in my favour and questioning their actions. They said I looked like and was dressed like a prostitute. I was crying and amidst the pandemonium, I tried calling my brother but the call didn’t go through. I called one of the men living in my house and told him I was being beaten down the street.

I looked into the bus, there were two women in it. As I was making calls, my assailants began entering the bus. I noticed this and drove past them and blocked them with my car. At this point I got through to my brother and alerted him that I was just assaulted. I noticed the bus was reversing to escape so I made a U-turn and pursued them. I kept speaking with my brother and the other man to let them know where we were. They sped to Area 10 sports complex. I stopped my car, wound up my glasses, locked all doors and waited for my family to arrive. I put calls across to several people including the FCT police commissioner.

They heard the assailants banging on the car glasses, roof,doors, hood and trunk. There were more buses, soldiers and people wearing man o’war uniforms. My brother arrived so I got down from my car and pointed out those who beat me to him. He was furious and began shouting “what have they done to deserve this? Can’t people be free around their homes again…?” He told me to drive into the premises. I couldn’t just then because my body was trembling but I eventually did. By then, three people I live with had arrived. The GM of a radio station in Abuja joined shortly after. Some other people came to the scene because they heard from different places. I placed several distress calls. I was totally traumatized.

A lady eventually came to the scene. She asked why I didn’t identify myself to the assailants. I told her I did but they wouldn’t hear. She asked why I didn’t show any identity card and I explained there was no room for that. She asked to see the identity card I had on me. I went to my bag in the car, brought out my card holder with my Actors Guild of Nigeria identity card, Dorothy Njemanze Foundation identity card (that identified me as a press person/activist), Exclusive Stores patronage card, driving licence, National identity card, ATM cards, complimentary cards… All in a card holder. The assailants said identity cards are useless to them. Before this lady came, a soldier meant to question my brother’s audacity to turn up in area 10 in my defence and cocked a gun pointing at his tummy and said,”I go shoot you for belle now. Who you think say you be?” I got furious, rained curses on them all wishing all female members of their families will die so that they respect womanhood. I shouted that it was my brother they were talking to and told them they will have to shoot two members of the Njemanze family. Someone on plain clothes asked if I was related to the Chief Judge of Imo. I said I was an Njemanze and promised them a difference in encounter for daring to assault royalty.

I heard the driver of the bus with my assailants say they assaulted me because I looked like a prostitute. He said I was not dressed like a Nigerian. I was more enraged. I asked if he could see any cleavage at all or my buttocks..I asked how prostitutes dress. I asked everyone present to analyse my dressing especially as I was going for an event. After I showed the lady my identity cards, she made a call and gave me the phone to talk with the person on the other side of the line. The man requested to speak with any soldier. I gave a female soldier on low cut the phone but she insisted her squadron leader was the better person to receive the call. I gave him the phone, he said I should put it on speaker which I did and gave it to a lady there to hold. The man identified himself and ordered the squadron leader to arrest everyone on the team that assaulted me and move to the nearest police station with me. He said he had heard but to our surprise, I was hearing them say, “them think say na only them sabi person for Nigeria? Make we call madam. We too, we sabi senator wey no be small person for senate.”

A female soldier did not find Justina’s piercings on her face funny. She told her she looked like a prostitute. Justina tried defending herself and the woman cocked her gun and told her to look well at her, that she would waste her if she tried talking again. Somewhere along the line, she was flogged with ‘koboko’.

After the assailants and their counterparts made their call, they hurriedly got into their buses and sped away. I had to make a report of the case with the police. As we left the Area10 sports complex,I had to park in front of International Conference Center to wait for a family friend who heard of the incident. Just as he got to me, two other cars pulled up ahead of us the men came to us. Apparently, they saw me earlier on in the sports complex and thought we were going after the people that escaped in the buses. One had his sister abducted. The other man had his wife who went out to buy suya for the family abducted. They said they were told to come to Arco estate lugbe to bail their family members. I told them I had to go to the police first but gave my numbers to them and encouraged them to keep in touch for additional assistance.

I headed straight to Wuse police station which covers the place the crimes against me began. The FCT police commissioner monitored what went on personally. I wrote my statement alongside all witnesses present. If this could happen to me, I wonder what has been happening to people who do not own cars or won’t speak up owing to timidity.

Since last year, I have handled over 70 cases of assault by this said task force that works in collaboration with Abuja Environmental Development Board (AEPB). I have exposed the fact that they randomly abduct women in Abuja and force them to confess to prostitution. I have had victims who are married women, stray bullet injury survivors, raped after abduction by captors, beaten out of private vehicles at gun point only to later discover their names were published in the national dailies and who have suffered various degrees of traumatic fits including youth Corpers with ID cards on them amongst others.

This war against women resident in Abuja is getting worse by the day. From the police station, I had to go to the hospital with Justina where we got injections and other medication. Everyone born of a woman should be in the fight against this random violation of women in Abuja without any attempts at paying for damages to victims. I call on all that respect human rights to come to our aid and ensure every victim gets appropriate redress. I also wonder why there would be armed soldiers without name tags on their uniforms brutally abducting innocent civilians. If considering the calibre of people around me, we still had guns cocked at us, I wonder the fate of the abducted people when they are taken to sabon lugbe near Kuje. We are in the process of tracing all those involved in that operation that has left me in excruciating body and emotional pains with the help of the police.

Make me form plan hijack iyanya so that I can have my way with him we can appear in his next video

afam4eva: It's just that you post some pictures that i don't see anywhere else on the internet. Thanks anyways.

When it comes to movies I prefer to go to the movie website directly for the pictures or I get from a source I trust to have good quality photos. Its not hard really.

She mentioned she was returning from some beauty pageant event very late at night and must have been dressed, hmmm, sexy. Be that as it may, that did not give the soldier the right to push her on her breasts to show how tough he is. Even if she was a prostitute, there was simply no need for that.

What they did was simply insulting and degrading and I feel sorry for the women that end up with such men!

afam4eva: I hope to see the finished product...btw, how do you get your news and the associated pictures? it seems you're close to this movie people. I think i've asked you this question before...

Yes you have asked this question before, don't mind the Don Juan wannabe

I am not 'close' to the movie people, I just love movies and get stories by talking to people and reading on the internet.

afam4eva: My thoughts were on point.

Hmm yes. This is a big movie that he is directing by himself and not co-directing like the others.

lagerwhenindoubt: Hmmm this camera can do well for GEJ's career

Lol!

Idowuogbo: u seen d waist video? not all dat joor! dem for hire me mehn... i no mind make my waist perfuka

Na how you go dey ask this kain kweshun? I seen the video even join my own dey shake
If na you dey the video dem go forget say na Iyanya get am

Just looked it up Elliot has co-produced and co-directed movies like Reloaded and Bursting Out.

I saw on IMDb he directed Kiss and Tell which is a lie because it is directed by Emem Isong & Monalisa Chinda

He did direct Edikan in 2009 (which i've never heard of). This is 2nd movie

afam4eva: Camera plays a very crucial role in making a movie good. Of course other proponents of the movie have to be in top shape to produce a world-class movie.

But is this is really Desmond Elliot's first directorial debut? I've seen other movies with his name written as the director(i think).

I have never noticed a movie with Desmond as the director. Let me know which movie and I will correct my post. I'll also check as well. Thanks.

You are one to talk, anuofia

By the way, was that you I was chatting with on the website?

dont8: The world is truely a cruel place!

*SINGING STYL PLUS*
~ Imagine that... ~

ayobase: Bobo...abeg no vex...walahi, me don even forget....Ijebabe, what was I thinking?
Ijebabe, pls e no go fit work out...no seeing and chopping biko!

Na wa o! Why am I not allowed to chop Ayo's money na
Must s e x be involved, see wahala o!

Someone please save me from Iyanya!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp7dZyrREAI

I think the website that posted the pictures compressed them, thereby reducing the quality.

Posted the same pics here and they don't look bad. My opinion.
https://www.nairaland.com/1058971/j-martins-looking-hot-oh

Nollywood actress Dorothy Njamanze was assaulted by the Nigerian Army Force by 9pm a couple of days ago, Nollywood Gossip said.

The beautiful activist, who is currently receiving treatment at an Abuja hospital, tells Delia Innoma (Live Online With Delia) how disappointed she is to be a victim of what she has been fighting against.

This is what she had to say:

“On my way from the ambassador for peace beauty pageant held at the Sheraton Hotels, I decided to check on my brother at the end of my street. I parked my car in front of Dreams Garden at the end of my street behind one bus, and was going in to see Ugo (my brother) when a man dressed in a man-o-war uniform appeared from nowhere and shoved me on my breasts, commanding that I get into the bus I parked behind.

“I reprimanded him for touching my breasts but instead of apologizing, he continued to pushing me by my breasts towards the bus, so when I couldn’t bear it anymore I pushed him too and started running away.

“Three men wearing man-o-war uniform and a head warmer, no name tags, and two plain clothes policemen ran after me. When they caught me they descended on me, beating me mercilessly despite the fact that I was screaming who I was.

“A girl who was waiting for me in my car, after waiting for a while and didn’t see me, came down to go and look for me at my brother’s place. She was horrified to see all those uniformed men assaulting me and trying to force me into the bus.

“She started pleading with them, telling them who I am and even showing them my car keys, but all to no avail. She started screaming when she thought they were going to kill me and that attracted people’s attention.

“When crowd gathered and people started recognizing me, there started coming to my rescue and there was almost a mob attack. A soldier out of fear cocked his gun and said he’ll shoot me if I don’t enter the bus.

“What hurts most is that I’ve been fighting against violence against women, and now I’m a first victim of it. I have over 70 cases of abused women on Abuja streets.

“The team that assaulted me tried to escape. I chased them down to area 10. Ugo found me there and another soldier cocked a gun, pointed at his tummy and threatened to shoot. A female soldier cocked her gun and pointed at Justina, the girl in my car, who was supposed to be on my show (ability talk, earlier in the day on love 104.5fm). Apparently the female soldier wanted to shoot Justina for having piercings on her face, because she said Justina was not a true Nigerian by that.

“Women have been randomly abducted and forced to confess to prostitutions by AEPB in conjunction with the questionable NGO, Society Against Prostitution and Child Labour.

“I have over 70 cases against them and now I’m a victim. Women are not safe in Abuja.

“The Military should be put to better use. It’s high time they pay for the damages they have been causing. I am so traumatized. Having cocked guns pointed at us is a mental image that tortures me.

“Government needs to hear us out, get facts and figures and stop the abuse against women. I wish the national assembly will permit me make a full presentation on the degree of this violence against women in Abuja and act immediately on it.

“I have rape victims, bullet injury victims, people beaten out of their jeeps at gunpoint whose names were published as prostitutes in national dailies, abused youth coppers… all sorts of traumatized victims. These people need rehabilitation at difference levels urgently.”

Well, we hope the government is reading because the worst kinds of violence are those against women and children.


http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/19071/8/nollywood-actress-dorothy-njamanze-beaten-to-stupo.html

peroskyeze: because UR A FAT WOMAN. STOP DEFENDIN NASTY DIRTY LAZY COWS

Such public display of stupidity and ignorance. I feel sorry for all the unfortunate women in ur life

^ Nice one

emma bowin: Point of correction.
It was 2face dt was honoured.UTI was not presented with any award.the bronze you see with them is only a gift 4rm d oba 2 virtually everyone that visited d palace.However, 2face was selected and honoured by d oba himself presenting him with 2 royal beads which you can see in his hands.

You're right! Never said Uti got the beads he was invited by the Oba. I think 2Face was the only one of his kind (musician) who received this honour. Thanks

jay bee, whats up?

More pics

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It was all glitz and glamour as some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry came out to support award winning artiste and producer, J Martins. Guests at the event include Jude Okoye, PSquare, Terry G, AY the Comedian, Gideon Okeke, Gbenro, Chris of Big Brother Africa, Gini, Orezi, Tunde Ednut, Jedi, Efa and others. More photos after the cut...

Finally, what I've been waiting for! A video of the fight

Thank you TMZ!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7zju2_Ctyo