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Her kitchen is her issue and not his presence in di house.....how can u be fighting kitchen with a woman? That guy is a bad brother...

Kollyman:
If this guy were to be your own brother, would you have reported him to your hubby or creat a thread for it?

I know of people who poisoned their husband's mind towards their siblings and they were chased out of the house.

Today, everyone is on their own and even married but the intolerant madam cannot even pick her phone to call any of these guys when there was issue.

Please correct him in love and learn to be tolerant.

Dis is crazy....into ur room? Better he tells u 2 kindly give himbwot he is looking for

Iwantpeace:
it's not because something has been done or not and please I m older than him my younger sis and him are age mates. I m just saying he should respect the fact that he's brother is no longer single.do u know he can come into our room to pick his brother's stuff even wen am inside without excuse or something.

We are all funny in this Nigeria. Last few years a 68 yr old Nigerian wasappointed minister of youths. We shouted blue murder. Now an elderly woman is appointed advisor for elderly matters n we r shouting blue murder.
Do you want a 30 yrs old be given di post? Who understands elderly matter better than an elder?

zakim:
Chai! leader with poor vision

Please what do u mean by di bolded? Sterile means his sperm can't produce a child n not that his thingy can't function.....


[quote author=Osasnidas post=86402763]Before you Blame infidelity on the girl, try and check yourself again in another lab or hospital, let them analyse your semen again... [b]Unless if you know your stuff isn't fully operational..[/qu[/b]ote]

Ur story brought tears to my eyes. What if while staying at yrs the fiancee was hanging her parts everywhere and expecting u to wash after they ate? When sun1 respects ur property u shoe them respect also.

Sermwell:
bro I followed this thread from page one and I must say your attitude towards your brother wasn't right at all!!!
I have a cousin who was seriously in need to the extend that he came to stay with me in school with his fiancé. I was a student and struggled so hard to take care of them for 2yrs. Almost everyone in my hostel asked me to send them away but I didn't. After about 2yrs of staying with me, he got a contract as a ship cleaner.
last year December after my call to bar, he called me and said he has something 'small' for me, and asked me to send my account details. Like a dream, this guy transferred 4million naira to my account(an amount I have never made in my entire life). I was dumbfounded!! I cried when he reminded me of the sacrifices I made when he and his fiancé were staying with me in school!

I will suggest to him to rent a smaller apartment for his brother...

skyhighweb:
bros u don't have a brother, u not a brother material.

It's crazy. Wud u believe it's coding probs in their family back in naija as she finally pushed Dem out. Her monthly electric bill went from 80usd to 400usd.

1Sharon:
Not even 1, but 4 boys? !

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- This column will not render a verdict on whether the White House decision last week to suspend immigration from Nigeria — the world’s seventh most-populous nation — and five other countries was mainly an expression of bigotry from an administration led by a man who once likened African nations to latrines, or if it was a legitimate reaction to security concerns. It will, however, tell you some things you might not know about Nigerian immigrants in the U.S.

To start, there’s a fair number of them (which is why I’m focusing on Nigeria and not Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sudan or Tanzania, the other five countries hit by the new ban). An estimated 374,311 Nigerian-born people were living in the U.S. in 2018, which put the country in 27th place as a source of foreign-born Americans, behind Pakistan and ahead of Japan. These and a lot of the numbers to follow are based on the American Community Survey that the U.S. Census Bureau sends out to 3.5 million households every year, so they’re subject to margins of error (19,648 for the number cited above), plus the inevitable strengths and limitations of self-reported statistics.

For example, the Census Bureau says there were an estimated 462,708 people of Nigerian ancestry in the U.S. in the 2018, but that’s based on what people put on the survey, not the sort of genealogical investigation that would surely reveal that there are millions of Americans whose forebears were brought across the Atlantic against their will in past centuries from the region of West Africa that is now Nigeria. Still, for our purposes the census survey is probably better, in that it restricts the scope mostly to recent immigrants and their kids. The members of this group have more than doubled in number since 2007, and they are for the most part doing quite well.


The median income for households led by someone of Nigerian ancestry, for example, was $68,658 in 2018, compared with $61,937 for U.S. households overall. Here are a few other informative comparisons:

Nigerian-Americans are more likely to have jobs than the rest of us, and much more likely to have college degrees. They’re also much less likely to own their homes, and slightly more likely to be below the poverty line — although they’re less likely to collect the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits commonly known as food stamps. Nigerian-Americans are younger (median age is 31.6, compared with 38.2 for the U.S. overall), more likely to live in big cities (at least, that’s how I interpret the relatively high share of public transportation users), more likely to work in education and health care (there are a lot of Nigerian-American doctors) and slightly more likely to be married.

The percentage of Nigerian-Americans 16 and older with jobs ranked them 10th among ancestries in the U.S. in 2017 (the Census Bureau’s new data portal is still going through some growing pains that prevented me from assembling these rankings for 2018).

Nigerian-Americans also came in 10th place for the percentage with college degrees.

Australia, Bulgaria and Nigeria are the only countries to make it into the top 10 on both rankings, which to me indicates a sort of integration sweet spot. Nigerians who come to the U.S. usually speak English before they get here, they tend to be well educated or in the process of becoming so, and they don’t seem to have much trouble getting jobs or otherwise fitting in. I don’t think these are the only things immigrant success should be judged by, and there’s something more than a little creepy about passing such judgments upon people by their country of origin. But since immigration policy in general and the new immigration bans in particular do just that, it does seem relevant that Nigerian-Americans are clearly among the most successful immigrant groups in the U.S.

Also relevant is that Nigerians feature prominently on the Department of Homeland Security’s rankings of people who stick around longer than their visas allow. Here are the numbers for business and pleasure visas:

Among those with student and exchange-program visas, the numbers are smaller, with 1,664 Nigerian students suspected of overstaying their visas in fiscal year 2018. But that makes for an even higher share (18.6%) of those that U.S. authorities had expected to depart. (Nigeria has been moving up in the ranks of countries sending students to U.S. colleges and universities, to 11th place in 2018-2019, according to the Institute for International Studies.)

One way to look at this data is that Nigerians need to be kept out of the U.S. or they’ll never leave. This has in fact been the reaction of the current administration, which in March of last year suspended a visa-interview waiver program that allowed Nigerian applicants for some visas to apply by mail, and in August jacked up visa fees for Nigerians. Big surprise: The number of Nigerians visiting the U.S. fell by 21% in the first 10 months of last year, the biggest drop of any country, according to Quartz Africa, which has been all over this story.

Another way to think about the visa-overstay phenomenon, though, is that the U.S. isn’t supplying nearly enough immigrant visas to Nigerians. The demand is clearly there, and Nigerian immigrants have a track record of great success here. I would guess that those who stick around after their visas expire are less successful than those who come on immigrant visas, but in theory at least they too are represented in all the above statistics from the American Community Survey, which don’t differentiate by visa status. And yes, if the U.S. allowed a big increase in the number of immigrants from Nigeria, their education levels and success rates might fall. But banning immigration from Nigeria outright, as the administration has now done, seems like a pretty big step in the wrong direction.

This step was taken, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad F. Wolf said Friday, because Nigeria and the other five countries subject to the new ban “lack either the will or the capability” to adhere to new screening and vetting criteria imposed by the U.S. government since March 2017. Now, I am perfectly willing to believe that the Nigerian response to U.S. demands has been somewhat shambolic, especially given how some Nigerian officials reacted to the news. “The travel ban is a wake-up call, a rude one at that, on the need for us to be alive to our responsibility to our people and ensure that we have citizenship integrity,” Ajibola Basiru, chairman of the Nigerian Senate Committee on Diaspora Affairs, told the Punch (a leading Nigerian newspaper) over the weekend. “At the moment, we are a nation of anonymous citizens. We don’t have records of our citizens and anybody can claim to be a Nigerian.”

The Nigerian government will now surely react with more alacrity to the U.S. push for information-sharing, and may well succeed in getting this latest visa ban revoked — as occurred with neighboring Chad in April 2018. But resolving this situation ought to be a policy priority for the U.S. as well. Nigerian immigrants are great. We need more of them, not fewer.

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From ur story it seems like u live abroad. I don't know y some people r entitled like this. I Know sum1 who gave i.v. to her cuz to come to di States for a visit. She came n spent 2 weeks n later left back to naija. 8 months later she called again telling that she wants to come on vacation with her 4 Bois. They later arrived Yankee and after 1 week she informed this person that she will be leaving back to ibadan n day she wud like for her cuz to adopt her 4 boys so they can be permanent stay!
Her cuz informed her the day she leaves shall b the last day she sees her 4 boys as she will take Dem to social services! She come vex de bone her cuz wey help her!

J111333:
Haunty came to born pikin for here and had planned to stay with a family friend. The family friend's wife began giving her attitude which I later found out that she asked her to be paying rent and haunty had trouble with that.
The oga, an elderly Nigerian man I respected begged me to help out and of course I no dey stay home, I said no wahala after all na only one month remain mek she born and maybe another 2 months before she went back.
I left my entire home for haunty and was overseas for 3months only to come back and still see haunty but with another of her friend wey come born too. I later found out that haunty collected rent from the other lady and at the end, I was made a fool. She even had the audacity to use my car in the garage with no driving license and no insurance, thank goodness I didn't get traffic tickets in my mailbox when I came back.
Story long but to help people these days dey fear me.

But she is Yoruba na!

Kallmerb:
So much love her fluent yoruba.... Any country or tribe mixed with Nigeria blood is always superb...



Oyah beat me

Lagos economy is bigger than Ghana,Sierra leone.,Liberia combined!

There is no way Ghana economy is $70billion. Maybe
$40billion?

I am not trying to compare the 2 economies but to proof you are lying.
Also the small car spare parts dealer u disregard in Europe will b the backbone of the economy as small scale businesses are the backbones of their economies and employ more people than big corporations.



[quote author=crash12345 post=86251578]this zoo country is really trying to make sure Ghana becomes a failed country like their zoo because they have closed their useless border to starve themselves just to see Ghana in flames little did they know that they're dying from hunger and inflation themselves whilst Ghana don't even care.How can a poor spare parts dealer who can't import through China and our better effective ports buh goes to Nigeria to get his goods to sell affect a country of 30 million people people with an economy of over [b]70 billion dollars[/b]

This may be to punish us yurobbas for amotekun

efighter:
And for 16 years, PDP could not offload even hand paddled canoes outside Lagos. Yet, the useless clowns went to tell USA to help them with Nigeria election. USA whose election was rigged by school children in Russia. Please let APC continue rigging and ruling.

Abeg take am easy b4 you get BP. E no easy to control teenagers... especially spoilt brats. But u need to act like a team with your man to succeed. Bonne chance Madamme!




s and sleepless night, it’s almost 3am I can’t sleep my head wants to explode with too much thinking.[/quote]

Abeg take am easy b4 you get BP. E no easy to control teenagers... especially spoilt brats. But u need to act like a team with your man to succeed. Bonne chance Madamme!




s and sleepless night, it’s almost 3am I can’t sleep my head wants to explode with too much thinking.[/quote]

This is to all those bashing and insult ing Black Americans yesterday. I know the BA sometimes exaggerate the racism they face but it still does not change the fact that the whites value their dogs better than us Africans.
So what has this young African done to deserve this discrimination from a journalist aart from just being Black and African?








Vanessa Nakate is a leading climate activist
Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has accused the media of racism after she was cropped out of a photograph taken with her white peers in Davos.

In an emotional video statement, Ms Nakate said that for the first time in her life she "understood the definition of the word racism".

Ms Nakate said "various" outlets, including the US' AP news agency, had removed her from photos.

AP, which has since removed the cropped photo, said there was "no ill intent".

"The photographer was trying to get a picture out fast under tight deadline and cropped it purely on composition grounds because he thought the building in the background was distracting," the news agency's director of photography, David Ake, said.

Why are young activists attracting so much hate?
Prince Charles meets Greta Thunberg at Davos
University students paid to tackle racist language
"When we went back to add more pictures to the report, which we almost always do when we are working under very tight deadlines, we added additional pictures with different crops."

How did we get here?
Ms Nakate gave a news conference in Davos on Friday alongside fellow climate activists Greta Thunberg, Loukina Tille, Luisa Neubauer and Isabelle Axelsson.

She later shared an article by AP in which she was cropped out of a picture of the activists.


In a video statement posted on Twitter, she accused the media of racism.

"We don't deserve this. Africa is the least emitter of carbons, but we are the most affected by the climate crisis...You erasing our voices won't change anything. You erasing our stories won't change anything," she said.

"I don't feel ok right now. The world is so cruel."


The 23 year old said she had not received "any explanation or apology" after the AP image was replaced with one that included her.

The video has been watched about 40,000 times and been shared by hundreds of people.

Some Twitter users also noted that other media outlets had misidentified Ms Nakate as Zambian activist Natasha Mwansa.

Leading climate activists offered their support.

"I'm so sorry they did this to you... you are the last one who would deserve that! We are all so grateful for what you are doing and we all send love and support", Ms Thunberg wrote.

Ms Axelsson said it was "unacceptable" to crop the activist out of photos.

"Her voice is just as, if not more, valuable than ours in a place like this", she wrote.

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Becos for say she work for Afghani restaurant she be Afghani,?. Since when Afghanistan people dey Ansa Janine? So if I go work for Ghana company for Lagos I don become Ghanaian be
day?

sonofanarchy:
she's not even pure White Def. She's an Afghan American no wonder

There is nothing like a male hen. Unless u meant a cock? Hen is femin while cock is masculine!

stupidity:
Someone just told me these poultry chickens don’t fvck but they lay eggs continuously for a period of time.


How true is this?

When I was little I do see male hen chasing a chicken around, after which the male hen will pin the chicken down and slide in from the back. The thing will just slide in for like 2 to 4 seconds and it’s out. After which the chicken will lay eggs after a period of time.

So what kinda biological advancement will make a chicken lay eggs without getting laid??

Educate me!!!


PS: for educational purposes only.

Don't send any letter. Keep ur apologies till she takes it up.
Some1 day has not said anything to u with regards to ur comment n u u want to apologise? Day tells her u had an ulterior motive!

mikezuruki:
What do you mean by taking it up?

that She took offence? Well, it seems she has never liked you.

Send your apologies to her inbox. That you didn't mean it the wrong way

What ub u wrote up here made some sense. But on the flip side look at it this way.
Even before prince Harry met Meghan he had sworn that his future wife shall not be maltreated and mistreated like his dead mother princess Diana!
So to him he is doing all to protect his bride from a system that eventually lead to his mother's death.
As for those saying Meghan made a prince to leave his throne. Note that Harry has always wanted a life away from the monarchy. Even before he met Meghan!

For all we even know the op nite be a white British embassy employee pretending to Nigerian! I don't trust the Brits. They can do and undo!
The only people that will stab you in the hearth and ask you if you are ok and if you need a doctor! lol

crackkhaus:
Surely you must realize that when people don't like you, it really won't matter if you're doing nothing wrong, they would still find a way to make you look bad.

The bias against Meghan was watered by none other but herself. You can see one of the articles you posted called her 'dictatorial', they may not be far from the truth.

I followed the whole ruckus leading up to their wedding in 2018 up until the wedding itself. You should not take my word for it though, you could make some findings on your own regarding just how much she tried to break almost every protocol regarding how the wedding should go.
A lot of things were changed/altered just to accommodate her preferences - from the flower choices, to the aisle leading up to the alter that was made wider because it's what she wanted, etc.. There was a lot more which I can't even recall off the top of my head.

Now no one is saying she couldn't have creative control over her own wedding, but when you marry into a monarchy that has a certain way of doing things in keeping with age-long traditions as old as her own ancestors, then she probably should have simmered down a little. She got what she wanted most of the time because the monarchy were happy enough to make Diana's little boy happy, but she took it too far and got used to it.
After the wedding, she kept trying to get them to do things her way and most of the time she would get it, but guess what, the British people only resented her for it because she was now effectually implying that their ways of doing things was not good enough for her, her own way was better...it wasn't just an emotional bride trying to make her wedding day perfect anymore, this was a woman who had no respect for the Monarchy and its ways. She confirmed what they already suspected and gave oxygen and water to the bias already working against her. And to make it worse, she was not even that big a celebrity in Hollywood in the first place.

This kind of resentment will obviously make them troll her at every given opportunity...no one holds a grudge more than the British.

If say, a single never divorced well brought-up Beyoncé (still black and American) was the one who married into the royal family, she may even get a softer landing than Meghan. If a Beyoncé DIL wanted the Queen MIL to dance single ladies inside Buckingham Palace, she may have gotten away with it, just because she is a Beyoncé. Get my point?

Meghan already had everything working against her from the start - previous failed marriage, dysfunctional family set-up, being biracial, and an American actress (not even an A-list, which may have been a plus). The least she could have done to warm her way into the hearts and minds of the British people, is to at least appear that she gave a shit about the way things are done.

I'm NOT sorry to type this, but I will because it is what it is:
Meghan did not do Windsor a favor by marrying Harry, Windsor in fact did her a favor by allowing her become a part of their family and she should have acted accordingly and not take a mile when given an inch.

It's what it is.

I STAND WITH DR MADUKA FOR GUVNOR....

Rapuru14:
Either Soludo Chukwuma or

Dr. Godwin Maduka.

I think they are credible options to drive Anambra out of the Obiano cesspit

Of he will survive since his party controls the Senate. On the other hand his party will lose the Senate at the elections in November!

tophumble:
It is an exercise destined to fail.

Trump will survive this

Don't u know Indian food Curry is di national dish in UK?

MrBrownJay1:
what about them stinky indians and their food... is that one ok?!

Subsaharan africa? Othman dan fodio was a marauder..

Stalwert:
Conqueured but no one was forced to convert. Read your history and tell us how many Christians were forced to convert after the fall of Constantinople. How many Muslim armies came to sub Saharan Africa to force Islam down the throat of any one. Please you know nothing about Israel

Mr. Man do u know constantiple was99.9% christian and today it is 99.9% muslim known as turkey?
Even spain u talked about was totally christian till the arabs invaded and conquered part of it and christians reconquered it years later.
Even present day israel/palestine was jewish before being conquered by arabs.

Stalwert:



An average bigoted Christian on nairaland lies 90% of the time. When Muslims conquered Spain they never tried forcing everyone to convert, the moment Christians recaptured the country, the began killing off Muslims till there were no Muslims in Spain. Muslim once ruled India yet till this date the Hindus are the majority, no Muslim army every set foot in Indonesia but today it is the largest Muslim country. Without lies, you bigots have nothing to offer, you accuse Muslims of crimes your fellow bigots wage against the rest of humanity.

@op better Iraq demands US leaves it is clear they have no regards for the people.

Tell her u ve an incurable disease. That u dont want 2 infect her. If u tell her bout wot u saw she will deal with u...

alasaigwe:
I’m done with her. I didn’t tell her but I’m going to be avoiding her from now henceforth. A part of me wants to confront her about what I saw while the other part wants to just act like nothing happened and just ghost her. I only fear how far she can go with her diabolical acts

I heard its a research center and not a hospital...

AkeNathan:
That facility will not be financially viable for average Nigerian national.

Unless they expect wealthy Nigerians domiciled in Lagos/Abuja to leave foreign Hospitals for a one in Anambra State

I laugh in Ebonyi dialect

Behind The Glitz, Nigerian Entertainers Struggle To Cash In by sorepco(m): 8:36pm
Lagos (AFP) - Fake eyelashes fluttered, bespoke suits were on display and slick music videos played at the inaugural edition of The Entertainment Fair and Festival in Nigeria's economic hub Lagos in late November.

But behind the glitter, the reality of the film and music sectors in Africa's most populous nation can often be far less glamorous: wages are low, there are no social protections and copyright law is rarely enforced.

That comes despite the country boasting the second most productive film industry in the world and some of Africa's biggest pop stars.

Hits by singers like Burna Boy, Wizkid and Davido play non-stop on stations across the continent and Nollywood churns out some 2,500 movies each year.

Despite the successes, revenues from Nigeria's entertainment and media sector in 2018 lagged well behind that of the continent's other leading economic powerhouse South Africa at $4.5 billion compared to $9.1 billion, PwC said.

That difference is not down to output or demand as Nigeria produces more, exports more and has a domestic market of some 200 million people, four times bigger than South Africa.

Instead industry insiders insist it is a problem of organisation.

South Africa has better systems for ensuring royalty payments for artists, stronger legal protections and more modern facilities such as film studios, concert venues and cinemas.

- 'Not taken seriously' -

In a bid to help remedy the issues facing the industry, veteran Nollywood star Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde came up with the first entertainment business fair, known as TEFFEST.

It is aimed at bringing together actors, singers, producers, insurers, lawyers and managers to better organise the sector.

"The entertainment industry has grown without structures, without a roof," Jalade-Ekeinde, nicknamed "Omo Sexy", told AFP.

"For decades, we were not taken seriously and the big corporation companies didn't consider us."

The situation has changed as the industry has grown and now companies like Netflix are looking to step up their involvement in Nollywood and international labels attempting to tap Afropop stars.

"We produced, we grew, we became something suddenly and now the corporate world is trying to understand how we work and how they can deal with us," Jalade-Ekeinde, AKA "the Queen of Nollywood", said.

But the problems riddling the industry means it is often difficult to invest.

"There is nothing to celebrate here," said Efe Omoregbe, manager of singer 2Face and former board member of the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), which was dissolved by the government due to an internal conflict.

"We should be fixing and addressing major structural issues (...) We live in a culture of abuse when it comes to copyrights."

PwC estimates that 80 percent of the pirate CDs globally can be found in Nigeria and singer Brymo says that in almost 20 years performing he has never received any money from his songs playing on local radio stations.

"Internationally, we make money through digital distribution platforms that have taken over rapidly, but locally it's mostly with gigs or endorsement deals," he said.

- Contracts or handshakes -

Lawyer Simeon Okoduwa said he tries to insist on artists signing a contract with producers before working with them.

"Too many film shoots or recordings are still done based on promises and handshakes," he said.

This is an issue that leading actor Michelle Dede knows only too well.

The star always demands a written contract before starting her next film -- and says the largest production companies now do offer written contracts as standard.

"Before producers thought I was being pretentious," she said.

Despite the improvements she still decries the lack of protections for performers or a minimum wage for actors and others involved in the industry such as make-up artists, cameramen and technicians.

Nollywood is a vast employer in Nigeria -- with some estimates saying it offers jobs to one million people -- but much of that is very precarious.

"We make more money on building a brand than acting," said Dede.

"But I shouldn't be focusing on how many likes I get on Instagram, I should be working on my roles."

Despite the drawbacks, the entertainment industry is still a major draw in a country where almost half the population live in extreme poverty.

But Dede said she still has no regret of leaving her job in marketing in London to launch herself in Nollywood.

"Nothing makes me happier than acting," she said.

"Even though the pay is not good, there is no way I would give up on

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Lagos (AFP) - Fake eyelashes fluttered, bespoke suits were on display and slick music videos played at the inaugural edition of The Entertainment Fair and Festival in Nigeria's economic hub Lagos in late November.

But behind the glitter, the reality of the film and music sectors in Africa's most populous nation can often be far less glamorous: wages are low, there are no social protections and copyright law is rarely enforced.

That comes despite the country boasting the second most productive film industry in the world and some of Africa's biggest pop stars.

Hits by singers like Burna Boy, Wizkid and Davido play non-stop on stations across the continent and Nollywood churns out some 2,500 movies each year.

Despite the successes, revenues from Nigeria's entertainment and media sector in 2018 lagged well behind that of the continent's other leading economic powerhouse South Africa at $4.5 billion compared to $9.1 billion, PwC said.

That difference is not down to output or demand as Nigeria produces more, exports more and has a domestic market of some 200 million people, four times bigger than South Africa.

Instead industry insiders insist it is a problem of organisation.

South Africa has better systems for ensuring royalty payments for artists, stronger legal protections and more modern facilities such as film studios, concert venues and cinemas.

- 'Not taken seriously' -

In a bid to help remedy the issues facing the industry, veteran Nollywood star Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde came up with the first entertainment business fair, known as TEFFEST.

It is aimed at bringing together actors, singers, producers, insurers, lawyers and managers to better organise the sector.

"The entertainment industry has grown without structures, without a roof," Jalade-Ekeinde, nicknamed "Omo Sexy", told AFP.

"For decades, we were not taken seriously and the big corporation companies didn't consider us."

The situation has changed as the industry has grown and now companies like Netflix are looking to step up their involvement in Nollywood and international labels attempting to tap Afropop stars.

"We produced, we grew, we became something suddenly and now the corporate world is trying to understand how we work and how they can deal with us," Jalade-Ekeinde, AKA "the Queen of Nollywood", said.

But the problems riddling the industry means it is often difficult to invest.

"There is nothing to celebrate here," said Efe Omoregbe, manager of singer 2Face and former board member of the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), which was dissolved by the government due to an internal conflict.

"We should be fixing and addressing major structural issues (...) We live in a culture of abuse when it comes to copyrights."

PwC estimates that 80 percent of the pirate CDs globally can be found in Nigeria and singer Brymo says that in almost 20 years performing he has never received any money from his songs playing on local radio stations.

"Internationally, we make money through digital distribution platforms that have taken over rapidly, but locally it's mostly with gigs or endorsement deals," he said.

- Contracts or handshakes -

Lawyer Simeon Okoduwa said he tries to insist on artists signing a contract with producers before working with them.

"Too many film shoots or recordings are still done based on promises and handshakes," he said.

This is an issue that leading actor Michelle Dede knows only too well.

The star always demands a written contract before starting her next film -- and says the largest production companies now do offer written contracts as standard.

"Before producers thought I was being pretentious," she said.

Despite the improvements she still decries the lack of protections for performers or a minimum wage for actors and others involved in the industry such as make-up artists, cameramen and technicians.

Nollywood is a vast employer in Nigeria -- with some estimates saying it offers jobs to one million people -- but much of that is very precarious.

"We make more money on building a brand than acting," said Dede.

"But I shouldn't be focusing on how many likes I get on Instagram, I should be working on my roles."

Despite the drawbacks, the entertainment industry is still a major draw in a country where almost half the population live in extreme poverty.

But Dede said she still has no regret of leaving her job in marketing in London to launch herself in Nollywood.

"Nothing makes me happier than acting," she said.

"Even though the pay is not good, there is no way I would give up on that."


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NO! Dont tell.

SteveOfu:
My friend needs help with this problem that has been bothering my friend for years now, she grew up with no direction or guardian and it made her to start having sex at the early age because she was doing it in order to put food on the table, her father died earlier and she as the first child had to sacrifice her self to make sure that her siblings didn't suffer much including her mother. The mum was not doing something tangible back then, before the age of 18 she have already done countless abortions... which makes her to be scared of getting married now because what if she can't bear a child now, right now she's in a serious relationship and the guy intends to Marry her, my questions are
1. Should she tell him about the abortions history before getting marriage? she doen't want to drag an innocent person into the Shit she got herself in, she don't want the man to be childless because of her or
2. Should she remain unmarried? So sorry for the long post. No insult please. Her way of life is transformed since she found Jesus and she has begged God for forgiveness and she has also forgiven myself.

Blond ke? I believe na ginger hair. Blonds r not that strong! Lol

Onijagidijagan:
Round one knock out? Is that one even possible?

Shame is when you let a blonde white boy humiliate you this way.

Did u read at all?

fredoooooo:
Is Osinbajo DSS ?
All of una no well, and na madness dem go take cure all your madness...

In the village? You well so?
See op. It is really a simple matter as such. If the land your dad built on is the OBI i.e where their dad or your granddad use to stay then your dad has no right to kick them out so long ad they have not built theirs. You are lucky your dad is the 1st if it were one of his brothers then that brother has the right to kick your dad out of the house since the 1st child takes the OBI.
If its not the village then your dad can get lawyers or police involved.

Ladylite:
Wow. Consider bringing police or lawyers into it.