Fast-rising Nollywood actor, Joseph Momodu,  popularly called Joromi, tells Sunday Scoop about his journey to stardom and he has used what he has to get what he wants Before acting, what were you doing? I started my career in modelling. After school, I went into acting. I studied Mass Communication at Delta State University, Abraka. Did you deliberately build your body for the movie industry? I had a good body structure from day one because I’ve always played basketball but I had to improve it by exercising in the gym. I was just lanky and straight; there was no muscle and flesh. So while I was doing all that to have more strength for basketball, I didn’t know it would eventually help for acting and modelling. Are you also making enough money? Of course, I’m making money. Though the pay isn’t much but since it’s consistent, it’s good. The gigs are coming and with the money, one can live an average or comfortable life. I am also a brand influencer; it...

It’s daylight robbery – Wada Nigerians’ hope in democracy, destroyed – PDP Forces of darkness failed – APC Olufemi Atoyebi, Chukwudi Akasike, Friday Olokor,  Kamarudeen Ogundele, Success Nwogu, Daniels Igoni and Gbenga Odogun The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa State, Chief David Lyon, has emerged the winner of the governorship election held on Saturday.  Lyon, who won in six of the state’s eight local government areas, defeated his closest rival, Senator Douye Diri of the Peoples Democratic Party. Diri won in two local governments. Lyon’s victory marks the first time the PDP would lose a governorship election in the state since the nation returned to democracy in 1999. The Chief Returning Officer, Prof. Faraday Orumwense, had after he released the result of the Ekeremor Local Government Area, which was the last being expected by INEC on Monday night, promised that the final result would be made public before 1am on Monday...

Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit have surrounded a house being guarded by a lion on Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island. WEXERES gathered that the officials had been deployed in the house since Friday after residents petitioned the state government on the presence of the wild animal in the house. The animal reportedly belongs to an Indian, who rented an apartment in the house. The Head of the task force team, Mr Yinka Egbeyemi, told WEXERES that he had the instruction of the Commissioner for the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture to tranquilise the animal today (Monday). He said the lion would be subsequently transferred to a zoo. Egbeyemi noted that the Indian might also be prosecuted as he would have to explain how he brought the carnivore into the state. He said, “The lion was found on No. 229 Muri Okunola Street. Our Black Maria and men have been there since Friday. They will rem...

It is no longer news that Nigeria’s first-ever film entry for the Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars (international feature film category), Lionheart, produced by Genevieve Nnaji, was disqualified during the week. Lionheart was yanked off as it predominantly features English dialogue. The disqualification was based on one of the academy’s rules which states that, ‘An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States of America with a predominantly non-English dialogue track’. In a chat with Sunday Scoop, a popular actor and director, Paul Obazele said, “I quite empathise with Genevieve on her ambition to get an Oscar. It is the ambition of every filmmaker. But in my opinion, inasmuch as she wants that, it’s not what we should be bothered about. It’s a personal thing, not a national issue.The development soon elicited a lot of discourse online as Nnaji and some movie critics expressed dissatisfaction at ...

Trinidad and Tobago born rapper and singer, Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty a.k.a Nicki Minaj has displayed wedding ring worth 1.1million dollars bought by husband Kenneth Petty. The 36-year-old rapper posted a video via her Instagram page, @nickiminaj where she flaunted her diamond ring. TMZ, (thirty-mile zone) reports that Kenneth Petty was involved in every step of the design and making of her giant square-cut jewel, which took several months. Rafaello Jewelers said that Petty commissioned them to make the design of the wedding band as well as the finished piece delivery and handing over what was estimated to be 1.1 million dollars for the ring. The jewellery company described Minaj’s custom features as a 17-carat centre with VVS2-clarity diamonds. Rafaello Jewelers also said that there was no space for inscription on Nicki’s ring but Petty had the opportunity to do that on his ring- ‘Ken & Barbie’ The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Nicki Minaj rec...