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Wealthy black actors of Nigeria

Nollywood actors who usually feature in English movies

Nollywood is currently the 2nd biggest film industry globally in terms of film output; Read on about the richest English film actors in Nigeria this year.

10. Femi Jacobs N290million – N415million ($700,000 – $1million)
Femi Jacobs was born Oluwafemisola Jacobs on May 8 in Osun State. He is a popular Nigerian actor, speaker and singer who came into prominence for playing Makinde Esho in the film The Meeting. For his role in The Meeting, he received a nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 9th Africa Movie Academy Awards. He also won the award for Best Actor in a Comedy at the 2015 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA).

Femi attended Fakunle Comprehensive high school, Osogbo in Osun State of Nigeria and went on to study mass communication at Lagos State University. He is popular for his role in movies like

The Meeting (2012)
Choices (2006)
Tunnel
Paired
Dreamwalker (2012)
Journey to Self (2013)
Render to Caesar (2014)
Heaven’s Hell (2015)
The Black Sihouette (2015)
The Guest (2015)
The Visit (2015)
Iquo’s Journal (2015)
Taxi Driver: Oko Ashewo (2015)
Just Married (2015)
Heart of a Sister (2015)
This Thing Called Marriage (2016)
All Shades of Wrong (2018)
Unbroken(2018)
Heaven’s Hell(2019)
The Reunion(2019)
Don’t Get Mad Get Even(2019)
Looking For Baami(2019)
Stepping Into Maggie’s Shoes(2020)
Eagle Wings(2021)
La Femme Anjola(2021)
Living With Baami (2021)
Acting is the primary source of his earnings but asides that, he has also made money from the sales of his book, Rise.

Femi has proven himself not only as a talented actor but also as a producer as he was the associate producer for the film La Femme Anjola. He also earns as a singer. He is said to be worth about $700,000 – $1million

9. Williams Uchemba N290million – N415million ($700,000 – $1million)
Williams Uchemba is an entrepreneur, movie producer and comedian gained more popularity amongst fans from his well-played role in Merry Men and Sugar Rush. The veteran actor is a devoted Christian and is quick to show off his religious views on social media and in his actions.

Net worth: The remarkable Williams Uchemba has a net worth estimated at N290million – N415million ($700,000 – $1million)
Recently Williams Uchemba narrated how God blessed him with two luxurious SUVs- a Mercedes Benz and a Range Rover. According to him, he received the two SUVs about a month after he decided to use the money he had been saving up to support a church project and use the rest to buy a car for someone who needs it urgently.

Uchemba’s main income is from movies roles, comedy skits and endorsements deals.

8. Wale Ojo N2.6 billion ($4.5 million)
Wale Ojo is a British Nigerian actor, producer and director who started as a child actor on television. He subsequently continued acting roles in the UK and Nigeria. At the age of 8, he worked with Akin Lewis, who played a barber on the NTA Ibadan 1980s television series Why Worry. Although he was born in Nigeria, at age 12, he moved with his family to England, where he also attended university. He rose to prominence after appearing in the 1995 short film The Hard Case.

Ojo was born on September 9, 1968. He is best known for his work in Johnny English Reborn (2011), The Guard (2011), Phone Swap(2012), Big Man (2012), Half of a Yellow Son (2013), When Love Happens (2014), Fifty (2015), The CEO (2016), Alter Ego (2017), Lara and the Beat (2018), New Money (2018), Coming from Insanity (2019), Don’t Get Mad, Get Even (2019), Kasanova (2019), This Lady Called Life (2020) amongst others.
Asides acting, Ojo founded New Nigeria Cinema, whose aim is to improve the quality of Nigerian films. New Nigeria Cinema hosted a film viewing and lectures at the British Film Institute in London in 2010.
Wale Ojo is also the founder of the Virgo Foundation – a charitable organisation founded that promotes African culture, traditions and heritage. The organisation is thoroughly committed to defeating the collective amnesia which surrounds ancient Africa.
Although he amassed his wealth from his primary career as a film actor, he has other side businesses.
He is said to be worth about N2.6 billion ($4.5 million)

7. Mike Ezuruonye N1.2 billion ($3 million)
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https://www.withinnigeria.com/entertainment/2022/03/11/jim-iyke-femi-jacobs-rmd-wale-ojo-top-list-of-wealthiest-english-film-actors-in-nollywood/

Do what you do best

Nigerian actress cum singer, Adesua Etomi seems to be getting to know the ropes of how things work in the music industry and has kicked off a new challenge.
The mother-of-one shared her own take of the So Natural challenge from her song of the same title.

Adesua Etomi shared the dance video for the challenge on her Instagram page as she encouraged fans to participate, use the hashtags and tag her in their remake of the video. She also promised that four lucky fans whose videos she’s most impressed with, will win Fifty Thousand Naira (N50,000) each.
Click link below to see the dance video sample:
https://www.withinnigeria.com/entertainment/2022/03/10/adesua-etomi-kicks-off-so-natural-challenge-on-social-media/

Singer and songwriter, Adekunle Gold had a little setback from NEPA while he was recording his bedtime skincare routine for the US magazine, Harper’s Bazaar.
AG Baby who shared the video on his Instagram page, had started off his routine when PHCN popularly referred to as NEPA struck his hotel.
Click here link below to watch video:
https://www.withinnigeria.com/entertainment/2022/03/09/nepa-disgraces-adekunle-gold-while-recording-his-bedtime-skincare-routine/

Nigerian music producer, Champagne Beatz has taken to Instagram to express his shock after allegedly discovering that he is not the biological father of his three children.
Although he didn’t reveal if he took a paternity test or not, he described the situation as a “shocking discovery”.
Champagne Beatz called his wife out for deceiving him for years.
Read details here:
https://www.withinnigeria.com/entertainment/2022/03/09/paternity-fraud-music-producer-champagne-beatz-discovers-that-he-is-not-the-biological-father-of-his-3-kids/

Mrkumareze:
He who present his head for the breaking of a coconut, ll not be alive to eat it

I remember that one

Legendary Nollywood actor, Pete Edochie clocks 75 today, March 7, 2022. The veteran who was born in 1947 has taken to social media to show his gratitude to God.
Pete Edochie is very popular for his use of proverbs, irrespective of the roles he plays. The thespian is naturally gifted and effortlessly uses wise sayings in a way that warms the hearts of Nigerians and he has at many times being tagged the wise man of Nollywood.
Here are 60 funny proverbs of Pete Edochie that made my childhood. Can you relate? You can drop yours too in the comment section.

• A person who sells eggs should not start a fight in the market.
•He who goes to an Owambe wearing shirt and jeans will encounter starvation.
•If something that was going to chop off your head only knocks off your cap, you should be grateful.
•No African girl will choose six packs over six cars. So my sons stop the gym and work hard.
•When the house-rat starts calling itself bushmeat because it is getting fat, it has started passing its boundary.
•The death of a lion cannot be announced by a goat.
•Drinking garri doesn’t mean you are poor, but allowing it to swell before drinking is poverty.
•A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.
•The frowning of a he-goat does not stop it from being priced.
•The only person that reads the terms & conditions is the one who writes it.
Click link below to read 50 others and don’t forget to add yours at the comment section.
https://www.withinnigeria.com/entertainment/2022/03/07/75th-birthday-pete-edochies-funny-proverbs-that-will-crack-you-up-this-week/

Veteran Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko, has on live television rubbished claims that have been making the rounds on social media.
Following the alarming rate of kidnappings and ritual killings recorded across the country, there have been claims that Nollywood movies have in one way or the other influenced Nigerian youths into thinking that it is an alternative source of making money

Recently, the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed that filmmakers in the country have been asked to avoid making money ritual content. He stated that the Federal Government’s decision to sanitize social media is hinged on confessions of some money ritual suspects.

Read details here������
https://www.withinnigeria.com/entertainment/2022/03/07/veteran-actor-jide-kosoko-rubbishes-claim-youths-learn-ritual-killings-kidnapping-from-nollywood-movies/

Nigerian singer, Davido has on social media responded to some social media users, who on Twitter alleged his London concert wasn’t sold out as claimed.
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https://www.withinnigeria.com/entertainment/2022/03/07/davido-responds-to-netizens-backlash-who-claim-his-london-concert-wasnt-sold-out/

The Headies is a much anticipated music award show that was first established 15 years ago, precisely March 10, 2006 by the Hip Hop World Magazine of Nigeria to recognize outstanding achievements in the Nigerian music industry.

The annual ceremony features performances by established and promising artists. It is broadcast live on HipTV to viewers across Nigeria, however amongst all the awards presented at the event, the only one that seems to always catch everyone’s attention is the controversial Next Rated awards.

In addition to receiving the award plaque, recipients of the Next Rated awardee is given a vehicle, making the award more competitive and controversial than any other category. This year a lot of significant changes have been made concerning the Headies which was originally called the Hip Hop World Awards.

For the first time ever, the awards this year will take place in USA on July 2, 2022 and not in Nigeria as expected, new categories have been added and astonishingly, the winner of the Next Rated awards goes home with a 2022 Bentley Bentayga said to be worth over N140m.

Over the years, we have seen so many thrilling incidents and controversies surround the Next rated Headies award. In this write-up, we’ll revisit the past winners of the Next Rated awards and yearly controversial moments around it, especially how many fans and viewers feel wronged about the winner not deserving the plaque; Starting with the most recent:
2022
The next rated award constitutes 4 music stars:
Buju
AryaStarr
Ruger
Zinoleesky

As usual, Twitter has been hot with arguments since the nomination list was dropped ranging from who will win this year’s headies award and who deserves to win it. Each singer on the nomination list have their fans to back them up but fingers crossed as we wait to see the drama that will most definitely unfold regarding the Next Rated award.

2021
Winner — Omah Lay
Click link below to read full story
https://www.withinnigeria.com/entertainment/2022/03/05/remember-olamides-outburst-at-headies-here-are-controversies-surrounding-next-rated-awards-2006-till-date/

Today, January 17,2022; here is a list of 5 celebrities in the entertainment industry who are a year older and how they celebrated (or didn’t) their day.

1. Kolawole Ajeyemi aka Awilo
Kolawole Ajeyemi aka Awilo is a Nollywood actor, filmmaker, founder of Aje Omo Aje School of Performing Arts, located in Abeokuta, Ogun State and CEO of Kolawole Clothings. He was born January 17, 1982.

Read more: https://www.withinnigeria.com/entertainment/2022/01/17/5-nigerian-entertainers-celebrating-their-birthdays-today-and-how-they-marked-it/

favourmic:
Them plenty nah up to 2withing this yr alone make God help us

Two sons with an interval of few months