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The struggle to turn this aged miss Toke Makinwa into a superstar continues. May it be fruitful.

Well, there are different type of promos. Most of the promos in Nigeria are TRY YOUR LUCK promos. In these types of promos, the organizers are also the judges, and can simply pull out any name from thin air, claiming to be the winner. However, what some of us are clamouring for, are promos that will be based on the amount of effort put in by the contestants, and also a transparent system by which it can be monitored.

The Media and Entertainment City, Tinapa, Calabar for instance has needs to recruit a team of young fresh entertainment acts who are popular enough in their friends' circles for movies, so they set up the Xcite Africa POPULARITY CONTEST. It's a promo where you get peole to vote for you, and the general public can keep count of the votes. Winner takes home an SUV by garnering 10,000 votes.

https://www.nairaland.com/1104900/popular-enough-win-suv

The following casts are needed for a TV Commercial and auditions will hold today and tomorrow. They must all be models/actors/actresses who have never done any jobs for any telecoms brand till date.

Role- Business Executive/Husband/Father of Two Kids –
Six 40 – 45 year old tall, handsome men with good skin, good body build, good voice/diction, great dentition and ability to smile infectiously and laugh plus ability to act and memorize lines.

Role- Business Executive’s Wife/Mother of Two Kids –
Six 28 – 35 year old tall and very pretty women/ladies with velvety smooth skin, sweet voice, great diction, wonderful dentition, sparkling sapphire eyes and warm and charming personality plus ability to act and memorize lines.

Role- Business Executive’s Little Baby Boy –
Six 2 – 3 year old cute baby boys with a happy cheerful face who can be made to laugh repeatedly.

Role- Business Executive’s Daughter –
Six 5 - 8 year old tall good looking girl with a happy cheerful face plus ability to act


Role – Babe
Twelve 18 – 25 year old gorgeous looking tall, extremely pretty babes who speak very clean English, have lovely body and skin, smooth face and perfect dentition (needed for a charming smile) and who can act and memorize lines

Role – Guy
Six 18 – 25 year old very handsome looking, tall guys who speak very clean English, have lovely body and skin, smooth face and perfect dentition (needed for a charming smile) and who can act and memorize lines

Role – Man
Three 25 - 35 year old very handsome looking, tall men who speak very clean English, have lovely body and skin, smooth face and perfect dentition (needed for a charming smile) and who can act and memorize lines

Role – Son/Boy
Three 5-10 year old very cute looking, boys who speak very clean English, have lovely body and skin, smooth face and perfect dentition (needed for a charming smile) and who can act and memorize lines.


Follow the link for contact details, and more information on Lanre Tyson, and M Squad Productions. http://thediaryofabadman..com/2012/11/models-actors-actresses-casting-call.html

I was at the premiere of Okon Goes To School. In fact, I've not been able to finish writing my review of the movie cos I keep cracking up whenever I remember scenes from the Movie. My conclusion is that Imeh Bishop Umoh be cast into a mental institution and they should give Frodo the key to throw it where he threw the ring. That man is totally ridiculous. Belinda Effah did great too in the few minutes she acted. She sure is the next Nollywood sex symbol.

By the way, I was sitting right next to Desmond Elliot, throughout the screening WHY YOU NO POST MY PICTURES?!

Ah! It wasn't that bad. People came eventually. I believe the other pictures were taken and shared online during preparation of the venue. Also, some people were scared because Tonto Dikeh was listed among artists for the show. They were afraid she was going to perform, till the organizers allayed their fears.

Please, tell me why NCC had to ban promos by TELCOs after this MTN Ultimate Wonder? Are you still wondering?!

Why are they doing this to us?! Why do they want Tonto Dikeh to ruin such an event, and defame us in front of such great talent and beauty. I must speak to the organizers.

Well, I'm not a blogger, at least not in the sense which every Nigerian has now become a blogger. I have a blog, but it is actually my own personal weBLOG. I rarely share it. I'm a microblogger though, and a Social Media Marketer. I make an average of N100,000/month tweeting as @Bar_Baric for various Nigerian brands, and in the month of my highest earnings, which I had a deal with Nigeria Breweries, I made up to N600,000 that month alone (July 20012).

Aside from that, most bloggers exaggerate the amount they make from blogging. Ask them for their tax receipts, that's when they'll start sweating. No Nigerian blogger makes millions from blogging! None! Don't be deceived into giving up your day job please!

The Media and Entertainment City in Tinapa, Calabar, will be launching its premium TV channel, Ebony Life via the Xcite Africa platform. Seeking to gather brand new talent from all over Nigeria, Xcite Africa has initiated a POPULARITY CONTEST which will see young Nigerians winning amazing prizes based on the number of friends and family they can get to vote for them on http://www.xciteafrica.com

With prizes ranging from a brand new SmartPhones, to Internet Tabs, Trips Abroad, PowerBikes, to the Grand Prize of a brand new SUV, Xcite Africa is about to make this Christmas, a truly Merry Christmas.

10,000 votes away from an SUV.
5,000 votes away from a powerbike.
3,000 votes away from a trip to Paris.
2,000 votes away from an Internet Tablet.
1,000 votes away from an SmartPhone.

It's no singing contest, it's no reality show, it requires no talent, just the highest number of votes.
Visit http://www.xciteafrica.com/register to get started. The Xcite Africa POPULARITY CONTEST is not just about winning prizes, but ultimately, to locate, and develope a new breed of Nigerian entertainers who have themselves gained some popularity through years of honing their skills underground.

For more information, visit the Xcite Africa fanpage on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Xcite-Africa/276067199172153 and follow them on Twitter: http://twitter.com/XciteAfrica

I thought the embedded video would show the child walking around, and breathing flames. What's then the purpose of a video?

The JTF will always be seen as heroes till they hit your town.

So two Nigerians have to go to the UK to seek justice?! Na wah O! GEJ!

It is very sad to learn that previously, these Ministers bring their phones switched on, to meetings with the President, and when their phones ring, they even go further to pick up the calls, and carry on with phone discussion during FEC meetings...with the President. It is not done anywhere. Jonathan is the President that will lead the country to destruction.

No wonder the other day, Steven Orosanye could tell him "So what?" to the President's own face. We're living in shame as a nation. How dare anyone bring a phone to a meeting, and go ahead to pick a call when it rings, let alone, when in a meeting with the President! Hmmm!

Why dem come chook WizKid for one corner like upcoming artist?! I wasn't feeling that at all. He was just dancing alongside the others, and it seemed like the camera was deliberately avoiding him. Anyway, I hope no problem sh. Nice video, but I still wish they could do something else aside these "bum-bum" videos.

This is great stuff! Seun, you have done well to get these young talented minds to show what they've got. I'm really impressed. Keep it up guys. It's threads like these that remind me why I first joined Nairaland.

Of course, I'm willing to go unclothed for a movie role, as long as it plays great relevance to the plot of the movie. Also, as Ijebabe stated, it won't just be another Nollywood cook-up. Something epic, something that will change the Nigerian movie industry. Funny enough, I won't request a huge sum of money.

On the other hand, there is no amount of money I'll be offered, that will convince me to act nude in these "Ukwa" or "Aki and PawPaw" movies.

I can understand D'Prince, he has not one single artistic bone in his body. "my money wey dey ooze like chuku chuku". That is pure idiocy, but I really don't care.

My issue though is with Dr Sid. He should know better. We were taught what a METAPHOR is in school, and in case anyone has forgotten, lemme quote from a Google search: "A figure of speech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common “I dey pop, I am not a pauper, drinks flying in the air like a chopper", please what in the Hell is this?!

I respect Dr Sid, and his hustle, but he should respect himself too.

I was chatting with one of the moderators on this very issue. It is very shameful, and bans should be strictly enforced on these individuals who a bent on making Nairaland a joke.

Since Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, unleashed her two recordings, "Get High" and "Itz Ova", on unsuspecting Nigerians, controversies have continued to trail the #POKO move.

A lot of people have quoted various figures in an effort to shore up some support for the actress'abysmal performance. Ranging from 1 million downloads in a day, to 2.3 million downloads in 2 days, to 5.2 million downloads in a week. The issue though, is that there is no download site where any such figure can be confirmed. So do we just take Tonto Dikeh's word for it?

Obasanjo never CALLED for a revolution O! Who are those mad people saying he did? He only warned the current government to mend its ways or else there be uprising especially from the unemployed youth. That is not calling for a revolution.

It will be nice if any of you guys would post a link to something you've done previously. I have a script I'm trying to convert into a screenplay for the contest, but I'm not very keen. If I find good partners though, I won't mind at all. I wish you all the best.

MTN Nigeria has just announced Miss Ebube Essien-Garricks, a 27 year old student based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as winner of the brand new Cessna 182T AEROPLANE in their Ultimate Wonder Promo which ended today!

When contacted on phone, Ebube said she would prefer the cash equivalent of N64 million. Nairalanders, what is your take on this?

I said it about 2 weeks ago that the NCC was working in conjunction with MTN on that aeroplane promo. Now that the prize winner is about to be revealed, the NCC has tactically surfaced to protect their partner MTN from giving out any such prize. THUNDA FAYA DEM!

MTN must give out that plane because the promo has already been concluded. NCC did not ban prize giving, what they banned are promos. Unluckily for MTN their promo is over, so they can't hide behind the NCC. These people have been scamming Nigerians so much that they've even decided to make it as glaring as possible.

Well, I left their network a few months back, and I didn't die. Those of you who are still being used as maga, I say to you: YELLO FOOLS!

Yeah, I forgot to mention that. From sneak peeks of the making of P Square's "Alingo" video. They danced plenty.

You guys, don mind me jare. I had earlier started an anti-piracy move against all media houses in Nigeria, and I was trying to mobilize records label executives, and veteran music artists, when suddenly, I saw this same article on 360 nobs. It was really upsetting for me, especially coming from a lawyer.

Anyway, na she sabi. Everybody with their own philosophy.

Who even went to wake this thread up from where it was sleeping?

This very pastor has been crying out in support of Jonathan for months now, and it is quite coincidental that GEJ was there in the Church when this gift was donated by the sheep. Hmmm! Make we check that Souvereign Wealth Fund O! Nothing dey inside. Dem don use all pay sycophants.

They have "chopped our money". What should they dance for again?

She should should not die O! She is one of those who has been "earmarked" for killing when the revolution comes. Please she should do us the honour and sustain her breath till the time when the poor man she is fighting for will take his fight up by himself. Then he will show who his real enemies are by spilling their blood.

Please, madam Oteh, don't die just yet.

First off, I don't understand how someone will try to explain the uniqueness of the Nigerian entertainment industry by quoting American statistics. The article is just a bundle of confusion. By the way, having been a Social Media Marketer for a couple of years, I can tell you all that bad news sells more than good news on blogs and websites. This means that if Tonto Dikeh rather than Adele had released "Someone Like You", less than 300,000 people would have downloaded it. If it wasn't for free, then even less than 10,000 would have bought it online. You can find that out from Spinlet.

Generally, I'll blame publishing of this article on the need for publicity. The writer wanted to be known, and possibly consulted for legal advice on entertainment issues, unfortunately, it is the same article that has exposed them as a quack "charge and bail" lawyer. Online piracy can be stopped. It's a shame that someone hiding underthe wig of a lawyer will want to tell us otherwise.

I know most of the music being released today is mediocre, and cheaply produced by non-professionals like Tonto Dikeh, who can therefore give it out for free, however, we do have very hardworking artists such as Bez Idakula, Christine Ben-Ameh, and TuFace Idibia who put in their all into making amazing music. Asking these hardworking professional musicians to give out all their music for free, just because of our laze in combatting piracy, is indeed myopic and very retrogressive.