Members of the NMVA 2011 organizing committee led by the visionary Mr. Cally Ikpe paid a courtesy call on the honourable minister of culture, tourism and national orientation; Edem Duke in his office at Abuja recently.

South African terrestrial pay-television channel M-Net may have sub-licensed the rights of its AfricaMagic content to international distributor Thema TV.

Erstwhile President of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Ejike Asiegbu and Abuja based Nollywood actor Francis Duru damned the consequences last Saturday as they rose against calls by certain Nigerians that embattled Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia be removed after he failed to qualify the country for the forthcoming Nation’s Cup, holding in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG), New York, has launched an informal partnership with the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), meeting with leaders of the African group in Hollywood, HVP has learnt.

— Nollywood actor and veteran comedian, Alhaji King Babatunde Ayinla Nurudeen Olasunkanmi Omidina, a.k.a. Baba Suwe was arrested Wednesday night, for possession of substances suspected to be cocaine by the officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).