Banker turned actress, Tonia Ferrari Okoro is muscling her way into the big league in the Yoruba movie industry in a spectacular way. Having shot her own first movie, “Omotoke Gold”, which is in the post production stage, to prove that dumping the banking hall for the make-believe world wasn’t ill-informed the voluptuous actress pulled off another first class act in a new movie, taking the driving seat as the main character.

Over the years, gospel music in Nigeria has struggled to find a fertile ground on the music scene because of people’s general disposition towards it, and by extension it affects gospel singers and the growth of the musical genre. Adegoke Adeyemi, a gospel singer and one time lead vocalist of gospel crew, De Xploit, has lamented the deplorable state of gospel music in Nigeria.

Some artists in Lagos on Saturday expressed shock at the demise of the late veteran Nollywood actor, Olumide Bakare, aged 64, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

Fred Amata, President, Directors’ Guild of Nigeria (DGN), on Saturday said that the death a popular Nollywood actor, Olumide Bakare, would not stop his legacy from living-on in the minds of people, through the theatre.

Olumide Bakare,65, Nollywood popular actor is dead.