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excanny:
Quit talking crap.

What research did you conduct? And where are your statistics? Do you know the amount of foreign women married by other Nigerian men?

Simply state that it's your personal opinion, like the OP is doing(which is quite different from the fact), and STOP spreading misinformation.

10,000 bootleg DVDs of 'Nollywood' Nigerian movies seized in Brooklyn

More than 10,000 bootleg DVDs of popular Nigerian movies have been seized this week after complaints from "Nollywood" film  execs about rampant piracy in Brooklyn.

The pirated DVDs were found at nine stores in the borough, along with several high volume disc duplicators, said District Attorney Charles Hynes.

"The sale of bootleg and counterfeit goods deprives the city and state of New York of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue," Hynes said yesterday.

"And it deprives the artists who made the movies of their well-deserved proceeds."

The Nigerian film industry, known globally as "Nollywood," is extremely prolific, second only to India's Bollywood in terms of the number of films made.

Most are straight to DVD or TV,  but extremely popular throughout the African continent.

That popularity has followed to the communities of immigrants from Africa in the United States, where they are legally sold in DVD form for $5 apiece while the fakes sell for $3 each.

Among the titles recovered in the sweep this past week are feature films like "Material Girl," "Mind Games," the "Governor's Gift" and "Stolen Will."

SOURCE:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/11/04/2010-11-04_10000_bootleg_dvds_of_nollywood_nigerian_movies_seized_in_brooklyn.html

Editor’s Note: Below is a fiery letter written by music legend, Onyeka Onwenu to the Editor of This Day Newspapers. Onwenu’s letter serves as a response to Azuka Ogujiuba’s article titled ‘A Blaze of Glory for 2Face’ (published on Saturday, October 30, 2010), whose content Onwenu believes is part of a personal attack on Toni Payne, entertainment publicist and  wife of musician, 9ice. Read the full letter below:

I have rarely made it my business to respond to newspaper articles, but when I do, you can be sure that I have been sorely provoked. You can also imagine that in nearly thirty years as an Entertainer, running the whole gamut of the industry as Singer/Songwriter, Actress, Broadcaster etc, I have had more than a fair share of unwarranted attacks. I have also witnessed others go through it, especially women. I have come to accept these attacks as some of the hazards of the job we do. There are people who are just jealous of others’ progress and who perhaps live vicariously, albeit with malicious intent, through the doings of those they envy. Some of these people happen to be journalists who by virtue of their profession, have the advantage of the pages of a newspaper or the air waves, as instruments of harassment and denigration.

That said, let me remind all, that I am a journalist and have unlimited respect for my profession and training. Nigerian journalists are among the best in the world and I am indeed proud to be one of them. Nigeria is a society which professes to respect women, but in practice we do not. Our tradition is to keep them down, relegate them to the background where they are best seen and not heard. When they manage to break through the glass ceiling, striving to be themselves and excelling against all odds, we celebrate them, quite alright, but with an undertone of fear for their “brazen”, “aggressive” and “uppity” disposition. And as soon as the slightest opportunity presents itself, we quickly pull them down. A journalist who never fails to disappoint in this regard is Mr Reuben Abati of the Guardian Editorial Board. On the issue of Nigeria’s First Ladies and their “Powers”, Abati’s language is almost always condescending and denigatory, to the extent that I am compelled to conclude that he harbours a deep resentment for women – for some reason. His last contribution to the Okirika Waterfront demolition debate and Her Excellency, Dame Jonathans’ expression of concern, earlier this year, comes readily to mind.

Quite a few journalists in the 80s and 90s made their names criticizing Onyeka Onwenu, mostly for no reason other than their wanting to be noticed. I refer to people like Azuka Jebosi and Ladi of Punch Newspapers, Mayor Akinpelu and Faj of the defunct Fame Magazine. At a point, Dele Momudu, God bless him, was moved to admonish Faj, who, not so subtly had tried to rubbish my CD “Onyeka” inspite of the fact that it was adjudged to be a brilliant outing in 1992. Mayor Akinpelu declared to all who cared to listen that he “could not stand Onyeka Onwenu” who according to him was indeed “finished”, as an Artiste. This was during the campaign for PMAN (Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria) Presidency, which pitted me against King Sunny Ade, in 1998. The Anti – Onyeka campaign continued with great intensity until I took a number of Entertainment Publications to court and won substantial amounts of money. These publications sought to damage my reputation. I was portrayed as a person of easy virtue, a love-peddler, a trouble maker and an unserious Artiste. Hard to believe, is it not? My crime was my audacity of purpose, outspokenness and insistence on being given my due respect. For displaying a modicum of self respect and restraint in my public conduct, I was labelled a snub, with the usual comment, “who does she think she is”. Well, I was never one to back down from a challenge and I gave as good as I got. I made no apologies and I continued to be myself – self assured, focused and dedicated to my work. In due course and grudgingly, these journalists had no choice but to begin to show respect and appreciation for my person and my work. In all these attacks, the most perplexing were the ones from a female journalist, the Queen of Junk, she was called, at the time. For some reason, she really had it in for me, other female Artistes and even fellow female journalists. I had taken enough courses in psychology in college to realize that the attacks were coming from a sense of inadequacy, in herself. When her career of bitterness and vendetta took a nose dive and she couldn’t compete in an era where journalism of personal attack had lost its lure, I concluded that I was right.

And that brings me to Azuka Ogujiuba and Toni Payne. Ms Toni Payne is my publicist and a young woman who impresses me with her zeal for work and excellent knowledge of the Nigerian Entertainment terrain with regards to what she does, which is publicism.  She is respectful and conducts herself with decorum. She handles assignments with a seriousness that belies her young age. Ever since I came in contact with her, for the publicity of my Legend CD early this year, I have not ceased to be amazed by her appetite for work and sincerity of purpose.
To watch her pummelled on Azuka’s Saturday This Day column, week after week, and unnecessarily, has been a torture for me. Ms Payne has laughed off these obvious attacks but I am not prepared to do so.
In her article “A Blaze of Glory for Tuface”, in discussing the issue of Tuface’s Baby mothers and the “danger they portend to his career (an issue I most definitely do not want to delve into), Azuka manages, as usual, to draw in Toni Payne, whom she describes as a “Groupie”. This is for marrying the Artiste 9ice, I suppose. Hear Azuka, “Toni Payne who conspicuously falls into this category because of her undying and unimaginable love to be called “Celebrity” has finally created the biggest Rift or ‘BEEF’ as they say in the Nigerian Entertainment scene. Azuka goes on and on, wondering how Toni Payne could live with herself. She ends the tirade with this: “Some even suggest that 9ice’s decision to end their marriage was a smart move”.
My dear Azuka, if you have a thing for 9ice, why don’t you go after him and leave Toni Payne alone. You have become too obvious and deliberate in your attacks. This is not journalism but vendetta, unprovoked, unwarranted and unbearable for those of us who pay money to buy This Day on Saturdays. Your Editor should now call you to order. Enough!

I had not intended to write this article. I had made a personal phone call to Ms Ogujiuba, to try and speak with her about her unrelenting attacks on Toni Payne. This is the conversation that ensued.

Me:        “Hello! May I please speak with Azuka Ogujiuba?”
Azuka:   Silence (there is some talking in the background).
Me:        “Hello, my name is Onyeka Onwenu. Am I speaking to Azuka?”
Azuka:   “Yes, what do you want?”
Me:       “You seem not to know me but I really would like to talk with you about Toni Payne and the fact that…”
Azuka:   Cuts in – “How did you even get my number?”
Me:        “Oh I see that you are intent on being rude. Well, I will write your Editor instead. I don’t do rude” I switched off.

My song “One Love” has a line which says “living in the world is a struggle just staying alive” and that is true, particularly for a young, professional woman in Nigeria. The last thing she needs is a misdirected, ambitious and envious journalist, trying to put her down, ostensibly, because of her marriage choice.
I am not interested in Toni Payne’s private life and it is not my place to defend her choices but I do take exception to a journalist attacking someone for no good reason, particularly a woman. Azuka Ogujiuba, get a life and leave Toni Payne alone to live hers.

God bless you.
Onyeka Onwenu (MFR)

Source:
http://ynaija.com/onyeka-onwenu-defends-toni-payne/

gaius juli:
That's the abridged version! See the full explosion. " the people sitting before you here were once a children"The bombers who born them?wasn't it not a woman?they were once a children now a adult now they are bombing women and children making some children a widow"

mike oscar:
Nice but Another interpretation could be

PHCN

P- Please

H- Help

C- Cover
N- Nigeria in darkness

006:

Quote from: fowler on Today at 01:59:40 PM
Oya my brodas n sistas from Anambra State make una tell the house why e dey hard una parents to allow their daughters marry 'outsiders', ?

Not only daughters, sons as well.
Reason: we don't want to dilute our culture and family values.

Risk of marrying outsiders: A new breed of psychotic kids may be born into Anambra State, and before you know it, they will be calling for Awka State or Agulu State or Nnewi State.

Five years after the extra-judicial killing of six traders at the Apo mechanic village in Abuja, the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) yesterday told an Abuja High Court that he was compelled by his Divisional Police Officer to lie in order to save one of the policemen accused of the crime.

Dennis Asawa, a Police Constable, revealed that the DPO, Othman Abdulsalam, who is now at large, made him forge two of his statements to deflect suspicion from one of the officers accused of murdering the traders. Mr. Asawa told the trial judge, Ishaq Bello, that he made a total of three statements at both the Force Criminal Investigation Department and the State Criminal Investigation Department but only his third statement was voluntary.

“[That statement] contains the authentic report of what I witnessed in the course of my job,” he said. “It was untrue that I visited the scene of the event, as stated by the police report. In fact, some of the police witnesses told me their statements were equally dictated by the DPO.”

More retractions

Mr. Asawa is the latest of several police witnesses who have retracted their earlier testimonies. At the trial’s last session, two lead witnesses, Yakubu Philibus and Ibrahim Garba, pleaded with the court to disregard the statements they made before the Mike Okiro Panel of Inquiry that investigated the case in 2005. They insisted that they had lied, and that the six victims did not engage the police patrol squad in any sort of gun battle. Police Constable Haruna Mahmud, another witness said during cross-examination that only one of the eight statements he made was correct.

“The two statements I made on the day of the incident, and the testimony I gave at the Mike Okiro Panel were done under pressure from my DPO,” Mr. Mahmud said. According to Mr. Mammud, he was not even at the scene of the crime, he was at his duty post at Gimbya Street in Area 11, Garki, when the killings took place.

The Apo Six
In one of the most publicised cases of extra-judicial killings in Nigeria, six traders: Ifeanyi Ozor; Chinedu Meniru; Isaac Ekene; Paulinus Ogbonna; Anthony Nwodike and Augustina Arebun, were allegedly killed by a team of police officers on patrol in 2005 while the traders and a girlfriend were driving home from a night out in Abuja.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Ibrahim Danjuma, as well as police officers: Ezekiel Acheneje, Baba Emmanuel, Sadiq Salami, and Mr Abdulsalami, are standing trial on charges of culpable homicide for allegedly killing the victims. Apart from Mr. Danjuma, who was granted bail, and Mr. Abdulsalami, who is currently on the run, the remaining accused persons have been remanded at Kuje prison since 2005. The matter has been adjourned till July for fresh examination.

Source: http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5581819-146/police_admit_to_lying_in_apo.csp

Navi613:
What would u do ore say, if ure fiance tells u, u cant work in the future if u guys get married