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ikeyman00:
jinx quite interestin

hmm mistaken identity; i think IKEYMAN00 mistaken for ur husband hahha

You have recinded your offer of blood? Why now. . . You don't like me as your vampire anymore? https://www.instantsmileys.com/smileys/vampire-smiley-30.gif

Okay, fine! Your blood was kinda bitter for my liking anyway.

Let him be, give him space. . . Let him know you are there for him without being all up in his face. Sometimes love can be stifling and it really doesn't conquer all. . . So you going "I love you, do you love me? Talk to me! Why won't you talk to me? Blah, Blah, Blah" when he is trying to figure things. . . real honest to goodness issues like how to pay the rent and whatnot, isn't going to help much. That's why he'd rather hang out with his friends because they won't yapping in his ears all day long and sighing all over the place like long suffering matyrs. . . Jeez!

I hope that helped.

KarmaMod:
For once I agree with your gibberish.

Rotflmao!!!! Please don't make my food angry. . . angry person blood is not sweet blood.

Sin City

Wanted

tpia:
Deepzone is specchless, quoting bible and using emoticons?

The world must be coming to an end.

I'm afraid oh!

Rotflmao! She is scaring the Beejeebees out of me

KarmaMod:
if by cute you mean drunken face, sisi then ok

and its quite obvious that Seun made her promise to behave herself hence her getting back her name and the "new behavior" which isnt going to last for more than 15 hrs.

Lmao! Drunken? See the eye lashes batting like fan! Don't joke ooh. . . irresistible!

Tpia and Bawo, I'm begging you two on bended knees please stop this fighting.

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How can you resist this cute face?  

DeepZone:


_{The devil is the accuser of brethren(bible or koran). Eniyan ma kan dede pi iwa da}

Rotflmao! I swear you are a case. I honestly don't know what else to do with you.

By the way sha, DeepZone is a little palatable than Pepperpray. . . a little ni o, just a ittle,

LOL! There weren't rude to me. They were rude to the staff of the places I saw them. . .  the Airport, restaurant and hotel staff. As a marra of fact, I went out of my way to avoid these celebs.

How do you say "Do you know who I am?" to an African American valet guy.   

This was at the House of Blues in Chicago, Femi Kuti was performing. . . never got to meet him personally, though the people who worked with him said he was just delish, the sweetest, made no diva demands, which he at least is entitled to unlike this Mumu celeb who expected the valet to jump all over himself parking his car and when the poor African American guy didn't faint at the sight of him. . . he demanded "Do you know who I am?" and the guy answered "No sir and I don't care to" I tell you, we were almost on the floor laughing our behinds off. Naija Celeb man looked at us and started acting up . . guess he was embarrassed. At that point, I just turned my ipako to him.

Gamine:
Rotflmao.

Its not that bad na

LOL, abi what else can I use to defend if it's not to accept this perception of us?

DeepZone:

I swear you are freaking me out with this your new jejely personality!

Who are you and what have you done with the Nazi General?

Tell me! Tell me now!!!

Horus:
President Obama and Michelle Dancing Celebrating

Lovely, thank.


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All the Naija celeb I've met. . . except my daddy Olu Jacobs have been nothing to write home about. My God, they were so rude and had this sense of entitlement, I wanted to slap it out of them fast, fast.

For propriety's sake I won't mention names.

KarmaMod:
Lmao that's his second wife. She's Hausa

MrCrackles:


No mind the oga!!

Just dey type rubbish ontop nairaland

Lmao! You two are bad!
He forgot is his IN. . .

Welcome to Northern Nigeria

Where mud homes and bad road reign supreme. Telephone and Energy Infrastructure. . .  What’s that?  Don allah, ina roko ki, Bring me my candle and lantern, I wanna read my ABC book. . . upside down.

All we do is https://bestsmileys.com/lazy/1.gif and get https://www.instantsmileys.com/smileys/drinking-smiley-02.gif off our behinds.

Oh yeah!! https://bestsmileys.com/hyper/5.gif

Tee hee hee. . . Am I the woman libber leader? Awww, me and my other self https://fc86.deviantart.com/fs33/f/2008/239/3/c/3c4e4e4fb0bea3ebb88739ea1798e56f.gif. . .  but let's not get it twisted, I DO NOT SEE  YOUR POINT because you do NOT have one. You dabble at the edge of one but you never really get there.

It's not 1+1 = 2 with you, it's 1+ Oranges = Exploding calculator

Yeah, Yeah we know. . . we just don't understand you because we are women with madness running in our bloodline and we are responding back instead of cowering in fear. Fine, whatever. . . anything to make you feel better but anyone with enough sense knows the issue here is you have a problem communicating and it get worse when you are talking to women.

KarmaMod:
wetin be sisi jinx? What happened

Lmao! Give me a break now, it was really late when I picked the name, my creative juices weren't flowing quite right. What happened? Let's just say I went Sarah Palin like on some people's behind.

LMAO! It stopped being a game when one of the players walked off the field!

@ KarmaMod
Rotflmao! Ay, this new name is not working for me already! Of course now, what is my bizness with what kind of Ganja we smoke in Chicago. I can't believe you had to ask if I'm joking. . . Haba, lati ijo jo yi


@Bawolomo
I know right! The green eyed monster is the worst!!




@ Spikedcylinder
I'm hoping it's just the normal joshing around amongst really, really good internet buddies. . . You know what I mean.


Okay, I have a Seriously, serious question for you guys. . . Are personalities meant to change according to your user name? Because I have to tell ya, this new Bible quoting, e se jeje preaching DeepZone is freaking the heck out of me. If I may ask, will I be a Masochist if I said I want the tribe bashing, Peppered insult spraying. . . Pepperspray back? At least with that one you can see the light from her burning touch from miles away.

KarmaMod:
*waka* Berra stick your nose back to your cheap Chicago ganga.

Did I not apologise for the Ode Ori comment? What is all this falsity. . . falsehood. . . Falsiho. . . untrue story you are spreading like so? Chicago. . . we are the epitome of conservatism and Angelity. We don't know none of what you are talking about. Please I am beggin you, stop.

Thank you.

Huzzuh! There is hope yet!!! https://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/69.gif https://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/69.gif https://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/69.gif

[size=18pt]Nollywood, quest for consolidation[/size]

By Steve Ayorinde

Published: Thursday, 28 Aug 2008

The controversy trailing the introduction of the new distribution framework for the Nigerian film industry should spur a healthy debate about the financial health of the sector.

The word that is now associated with the man behind the rumble, Emeka Mba, the Director-General of the National Film and Video Censors Board, is reform. I think the appropriate word should be consolidation.  Considering the bigger picture, what is at stake is the financial health of this giant industry that is not quite acting its age. Since March 2007 when he took up the gauntlet for a good cause, Mba aim had sought primarily to encourage an industry that must be relentlessly open about its financial stature.

Rather than have as many mushroom film marketers as we do producers, the new distribution framework had devised a new regime of registration for a five-year licence for those that wish to operate on a national scale. But in so doing, it requires an evidence of seriousness or financial capability to the tune of N30m, either individually or as a group. Such evidence, in recognisable business sense, could be in assets, equipment, et cetera. A marketer could also produce evidence of an insurance bond for the remainder of the amount or the whole N30m. The sense in it, as I understand it, is to first appreciate the distribution arm of film production as the engine room of its economic mainstay, and then strengthen it in order to forestall the distant nightmare that may be the consequence of a profuse, unrestrained industry.

The vision from the Censors Board, I reckon, is to save Nollywood from the impending danger where there are more movies, mostly sub-standard, than capable distributors in a market that is not necessarily expanding. The template that Mba seems to be adopting is similar to his kinsman’s, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria , Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, during the banking sector consolidation in 2006.

The familiar success story of the banking sector consolidation programme was, of course, necessitated by the pervasive weakness and uncertainty in the banking system, and the need to re-engineer and fast-track a system that will engender confidence and power a new economy. The way Soludo pruned down the number of banks from 89 to 25 and raised the stakes for investors and borrowers is, in a way, analogous to what Mba craves for Nollywood – foster the development of a healthy industry that can regurgitate production and partner with financial institutions .

The initial eruption of opposition to the framework was expected. Just like the initial opposition to the banking consolidation, where critics later turned ardent supporters of the exercise, the framework, if diligently implemented, may soon win over its adversaries. It should dawn soon that the Keynesian theory that worked for the banking sector applies to the business of film in the sense that money can stimulate expansion in aggregate domestic output.

The argument that unlike banks, film marketers and distributors do not hold public money in trust, and therefore should not be required to conform to government’s idea of reform, lacks merit. Firstly, an institution such as the Nigerian Stock Exchange though may operate outside of government’s confines, its functions are subject to regulations and even direct government intervention as we are currently witnessing with the downward trend in the capital market. Such an argument reinforces the weak excuse that since government has minimal involvement in the operations of the music, visual and literary sectors, the motion picture should also be left out of government’s purview. What should be appreciated is not just the law backing the Censors Board’s foray into film regulation, but also the importance attached to the 7th Art (Cinema) the world over.

The price of consolidation in the film industry is worth paying when the arithmetic involved is considered. With almost 2,000 moves released yearly on an average budget of N2.5m, we have a sector that invests not less than N5bn into production alone. If distribution per film is averagedly around 20,000 copies at about N300 per unit of a video compact disc (without cinema/box office releases for a few films) we are talking about an industry where N6bn was generated from sales in 2007 alone. Such an industry cannot be left to conjectures of panicky marketers alone.

I may subscribe to the idea of regional distributors, which in the banking sense will be like the micro-finance banks. But the gains of a fewer, solid, national distributors will be seen in fewer, quarterly movies that can earn money on a national as indeed global scale

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Speaking of Amaka Igwe, here's an interesting Article.

What she talks about kinda goes in line with what Lucabrasi has been talking about.

"It's the Distribution, Stupid"-Amaka Igwe
With four movies ready in the can and 15 screenplays in the drawer, Amaka Igwe could easily engage a huge swath of the Nigerian population with a new movie every month from now till the next yuletide season. But the creator of Violated says that a lot is wrong about the marketing environment of the film business. And she'd like to deal with the matter, now.

"Our distribution is too inadequate to allow us make the optimum revenue from our efforts", she said in a telephone conversation last week. So, before she embarks on the next round of plastering bridge pillars with colourful life-sized posters of the leading men and ladies in her much sought after movies, Igwe is working on concepts to enlarge the market for Nollywood. The producer appreciates what the Peace Fiberesima-Pedro Obaseki cooperative market in Surulere is about. But she thinks that the impact of the project is whittled down by the fact of the share of the market that's controlled by the participants in that initiative. "In Surulere, we've ended up creating another Idumota. How can you have a solid alternative with 5% of the market?" Igwe will unfold her full vision for the domestic Nigerian film market in a short while, but in the meantime, she speaks eloquently of the work that's going on to put her products in a sizeable part of a formal, documented American market. "I am working with a lawyer that will represent us and a partner that will put our films in 150 outlets.

And what about the other idea she has launched, named BOBTV, or Best of The Best TV? "Its the largest market for African Audiovisual Content (movies, music, television programmes and multimedia) in the World", according to the website, which gushes with praise for the new economic era in Nigeria. "The strategic location of Nigeria, its historical antecedents, natural and human resources and its economy have made it the principal market in West Africa". President Olusegun Obasanjo could not have put it better: "Nigeria's recent economic restructuring and open market initiatives have made it a priority destination for new businesses looking to come into or expand into Africa. Microsoft, Adobe, Kodak, LG, Samsung, DELL, Apple, BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Honda, VW, Sony, JVC, Panasonic, Comcast, to name a few have all relocated their African presence to Nigeria". BOBTV, scheduled for March 15-18 at the Sheraton in Abuja, will feature screenings, talkshops, skill building and a whole range of modules designed to improve the capacity of the Nigerian film industry.

This is not part of the talk, talk, talk thing ooooh, just thought it was interesting.

Letter writing campaign
Virtual Movie

You know. . . there is a way we can implent both, do the virtual movie and include it in our letter writing campaign. The way I see it, writing to Nigerian studios and having nothing concrete to offer. . . is a sure fire way to get dismissed but if we do write to them and say, here this is an example of what you can do right. . . who knows.

Does this sound doable or is it my new identity make me overly?

Aah! We'll just wait for the others to weigh in. All in all, thanks guys. 

PS
I have the Contact info for Amaka Igwe Studios!