Popular Kannywood actress, Aisha Dankano, is dead.Aisha Dankano who was popular for her movie roles in the North reportedly died yesterday morning following a brief illness at her home in Kano State.Sources close to the family reveal that the veteran actress had been buried according to Islamic rites yesterday.She will truly be missed by lovers of Hausa movies,the role of a mother/mother-in-law with funny proverbs can hardly be filled.May Allah grant her eternal peace and rest.Ameen.
Bayero Mohammed Tukur recently graduated with a first class degree in Engineering from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He also was the best graduating student of the Faculty of Engineering. The elated civil engineer explains how he achieved the feat 20 years after the faculty failed to produce a first class grauduate and also speaks on the practice of engineering in Nigeria among other issues.
Daily Trust: What was your major field of study?
Bayero Mohammed Tukur: I graduated from the Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering. You may wish to call me a water engineer, a hydraulic engineer or an environmental engineer. Above all, you may wish to call me a civil engineer, because they are all one and the same thing. But I wish to quickly note that we can be said to have majored in everything in the department. It isthe system here where you have to read everything.
DT: How do you feel, graduating with a first class degree?Tukur: I give thanks and glory to Almighty Allah. We are two first class graduates in the Faculty of Engineering. I emerged first and the other person emerged second. For the past 20 years before us, there hadn’t been any first class graduate. So, when we came for the orientation immediately after our admission, we took it up as a challenge, and we kept on praying to Allah. Today, our fervent prayers came to fruition. Today, by the grace of Almighty Allah, two of us have caused to happen what did not happen in 20 years.
DT: Perchance you proceed for higher degrees or any professional training, what wouldyou like to specialise in?
Tukur: I would like to specialise in environmental engineering as my major field because of the ever-changing climate globally now. I am really interested in this phenomenon, and I would like to make my contributions to humanity in that aspect.
DT: Is it, therefore, right to say that you were driven by challenges bordering on the practice of engineering in the Nigerian society to venture into what you have just graduated in?
Tukur: My father, who died while Iwas in my 100 level, may his soulrest in peace, was also a civil engineer. I have nine elder brothers. None of them saw engineering as a field they could venture into. They have never seen it as a challenge. I took it upas a challenge. I wanted to take after my father. Secondly, I am not happy with the way Nigeriansare treating engineers. When an engineering project is to be contracted out to an engineer, it is seldom contracted to a Nigerian engineer. Project executors prefer engaging, say, Egyptian engineers, and even Nigerien engineers, condemning the huge population of Nigerian engineers to frustrating joblessness. We have over 40, 000 graduate engineers that are not even working, let alone practicing engineering. A key aspect of my reason for taking upthe challenge is, I believe, engineering is more delicate thanmedicine. When an engineer makes a mistake, he kills millions; but when a medical doctor makes a mistake, it is onlya soul that is going, and this is a fact everyone knows.
DT: How does an engineer’s mistake kill millions?
Tukur: By discipline, I am a civil engineer, a hydraulic engineer, and an environmental engineer; in my design of a structure, if I make a mistake of 0.1 mm, it makes a big difference. If I make a mistake of 0.01 in design of anystructure, the consequences could be monumental. You don’t make mistakes when you are mixing concrete, you don’t make mistakes when you are designingstructures etc. Everything must be perfect. There shouldn’t be anything like near perfect in designing structures. Near perfect is not perfect. If a design is a near-perfect design, it is not a perfect design, and grave consequences could happen, sequel to whatever little deficit in the total perfection. That little imperfection could immediately or in the course of the life-span of the structure result in the loss of lives and property. So, our fieldof practice is even more delicate than that of the doctor.
DT: How would you assess the quality of structures designed by engineers in the Nigerian society?
Tukur: I regret to say such designs have not been in good hands. You see, I have always believed that graduates of engineering have the talent to make a good difference, but the Nigerian society is not giving us the opportunity to explore our talents.
DT: Collapse of buildings is rampant now in Nigeria. What do you observe as responsible for this situation?
Tukur: Buildings collapse when preliminary surveys are not done.There should also be environmental impact assessment, which will show youhow far your structure can last, and what are the economic implications it will lead to, good or bad. For example, if you are constructing a dam, you have to consider all aspects in its design,and their possible economic implications, to forestall flood displacing large populations and destroying hundreds of farmlands. Studies are not being done properly. At the beginning, when a building collapses, the engineer is at fault, because his design is faulty. The builder just builds on what the engineer designs. Yet, I cannot say it is wholly the fault of the engineer, because he may do the proper thing in terms of the design, but someone else fails to do so, on his own part. I am saying that generally, it is a collective responsibility. Everyone must do his own part properly for the structure to stand.Daily Trust
Hi everyone here is an insight of tonight episode of divorce diary:
MY NAME IS JAMILA AUDU BUT EVERYBODY CALLS ME INNA. I AM FROM ADAMAWA STATE. I AM 42 YEARS OLD AND I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE MY DIVORCE DIARY WITH YOU.
I met my ex-husband Musa at a friend’s wedding in Sokoto. My father was a lecturer at the University of Sokoto. I had just been accepted by the University to study medicine. The year was 1992. I was 18 years old and very beautiful. Almost immediately I entered university men were chasing me like flies. At first it was scary then I started getting used to the attention.The day I met Musa, I wasn’t even in the mood for any man. I was frustrated because I was rushing to go back to school, but my friends would rather continue partying at the wedding cocktail.
When he spoke to me his English wasn’t even good but there was something about him that made me listen to him.He said he was a businessman and that he would love to take me back to school. I agreed.
And on the long drive back to school I learnt that he was originally from Sokoto but he grew up in Kano. He told me he was an importer. He also told me that he was married and had 5 children. I was surprised. He didn’t look it at all.And that’s how our romance started. He spent lavishly on me. He was in Sokoto for 3 months before he went back to Kano. He encouraged getting a transfer to BUK so we could be together. I resisted this knowing my parents would never even agree for me to marry a Sokoto man.
One day I told my mother about him and all hell broke loose. She did not think it was proper for me to be dating a Sokoto man talk less of thinking of marrying him. She scolded me and asked me to face my studies:
‘KO hautete be hausajo? Be wala hakkilo sam. Be anda kandi men. Be hulata Allah! Ta mi meta nanugo. A tita defte ma”
“What are you doing with a Hausa man? Don’t you know they are uncouth and uncultured? They have no fear of God. I don’t want to hear this again. Go back to school and face your books”
Which I did,For a while.
But Musa came back from Kano and I couldn’t resist him. I fought constantly with my parents about him. They forbade my marriage to him. My father found out from his bincike that Musa had only finished secondary school and was married to 3 other women. I thought my father was concocting lies to discourage me. I ran away from home, I abandoned my education then eventually I went to Yola where my aunt’s husband became my waliyy and we got married.
I was taken to Kano after my wedding where I stayed in a beautiful house in an upscale neighborhood. Weeks later the real owners of the house returned, Alhaji Umaru and his 2 wives. I was shocked to my core. So it was a borrowed house that we had been living in. as if that wasn’t enough, Musa asked me to pack up a join his other wives at Rijiyar Lemo. I couldn’t believe it! So my father was right all along.
Hmm that’s how I moved into this dilapidated house at Rijiyar Lemo, a ghetto. My 3 co wives couldn’t stop mocking me. Calling me ‘yar boko. And my life completely changed. We all had one room to ourselves. In each room there was a fridge, mattress and a fan. That was it. I quickly learnt that Musa the husband was very different from the man I had met. He had a set of Rules and failure to comply got us ruthless beatings. Sometimes he used his belt; sometimes he used his bare hand. Some of the rules were:
No one from your family could visit you
No Radio or TV
No going to the Hospital
Our daughters could not go to school
Food must be cooked once a day
You could only visit your family if someone died
No going to school even islamiyya was prohibited
That is how I was cut off from my family. That is how I stayed with Musa and bore him 4 daughters. That is how my first daughter was married off to some bastard without her ever becoming educated. This thing hurts me till today. We were so isolated from everybody that it’s after my divorce that I knew there had been elections and the military had left power.
I accepted my fate and tended to my duties, I took it as a punishment from Allah for disobeying my parents. I prayed for forgiveness. Over the years my co wives and I stopped bickering and we became like sisters. We all had stories of how Musa tricked us into this existence. Our elder wife, Talatu was motherly. She delivered our babies and tended to us in sickness. He treated her like dirt. She had inherited a lot of money from her father and he had squandered it all.
The second wife, Ruqaiya became like a sister to me. We were very close. She was the only one among us who had the guts to talk back at him sometimes. She could even sneak out from time to time. I admired her courage.
One day she got very sick and we all feared for the worst. We begged and pleaded with him to let us take her to the chemist but he refused. For days we all watched helplessly as she declined in health. This man did not care. Ruqaiya died after 2 months. This man did not care,I was so angry. I was so angry when her people came to pack her things and he announced that he was bringing in a new wife.
I looked at myself in the mirror and asked myself what have I done to myself?
I was going to be a doctor. I was a beautiful woman. How did I become a local semi-literate prisoner? Is this how life would continue for me and my daughters? Is this how their lives would eventually play out?
I decide I was not going to end up like ruqaiya.
For months after her death I refused to lie in his bed. He beat me mercilessly and raped me. Things got so bad that he started inserting objects into me as punishment he said.
And then I started fighting back. Whenever he started beating me I would also fight back and hit him one or two times. It emboldened me.I decided to kill him and set everybody free.
In the dead of Night I took a Knife and I went to stab him. His new wife was in bed with him when I did it. She got up and ran away. I stabbed him twice and I took my children and fled.
I had no money. I did not know where to go. I was just going.
I asked an okada man to help me,He took me to a motor park. All I knew was that I would go to yola. I did not know where my parents were. I begged at the motor park for the day and I was able to get my transport fare.
When I arrived at my aunt’s house in Yola nobody recognized me.
They all stared at me like I was a ghost,I was thin and malnourished. The opposite of what I looked like when I left. I learnt that my father was now a minister in Abuja. And that now people had GSM phones.
I couldn’t speak to my father on the phone. I just held the phone and cried and cried.
The next day my mother arrived from Abuja. After the tears and the apologies, we left for Abuja .My children were so excited to fly in an aero plane.
When I saw my father I broke down again. I couldn’t even say a word. But he hugged me and told me everything will be fine.
It has been 6 years since that day. My husband did not die. He recovered and came to Abuja to demand for his children. He came with policemen and Thank God my father was able to sort out the situation. My Family initially refused to allow him access to the children. But now he is free to visit them whenever he wants. My daughters are in school now. I have also gone back to school. I am now in my final year reading Business at a private University.
Alhamdulillah. I really don’t know what became of my co wives, but I pray for them every day.
I have learnt that without family we are nothing. Without education people are mere savages. Don’t ever compromise your relationship with your family, always seek for a solution with them
Thank You for reading my story.
I hope it has touched you to value your parents a little more.
The police in Abuja last Saturday February 6th, disrupted a gay wedding between the two men pictured above. The wedding between Abdul Lawal (right) who is supposed to be the husband and Umar Tahir (left) the wife, was supposed to hold at a popular hotel in Jiwa Community of Abuja, King’s Land Hotel in Abuja. Acting on a tip off, the police laid siege at the venue of the wedding.Guests had already started arriving the venue of their wedding which was well decorated and as soon as the bride and groom, both from Kaduna state, arrived the venue, they were immediately arrested and taken to the Gwagwa Police Station where they were detained.Eyewitnesses say that other people, including the sponsors ofthe wedding, chairman of the occasion and the owner of the hotel were also arrested during the raid.The sponsors of the marriage were named as Abubakar Tahir and Mohammed Sani.
Late Aisha Isa Fagge, on her wedding dayLate Aisha Isa Fagge was a new bride, with a 12-day-old marriage, when she was brutally murdered by yet-to-be identified person(s) in August 2015. Five months after the shocking incident, circumstance that led toher death remain unknown. Late Aisha, 20, was killed in her matrimonial home in Sharada Ja’en Quarters, Kano, found deadin her sitting room around 1:00pm when most residents in the area had gone for congregational Juma’at prayers.Alhaji Nura Muhammad, the deceased’s husband told police that he found her lifeless body in the sitting room, with both of her hands tied with a rope. He explained that he had spoken with her on the phone around 10:00am and everything seemed fine, so when he got home and knocked on the door and got no response, he became worried. “A neighbour, Rabi’u Abdulkadir, joined me and we broke down thedoor, and entered the house to find Aisha dead,” he narrated. Butthe incident has been riddled with various and varying versions. While police say the murder was carried out by rapists, the victim’s family insiststhe murder was purely ritual. A family source told Daily Trust that the women who performed the cleansing ritual on late Aisha’s corpse did not see any signs of rape. “She was found fully-clothed with no sign of struggle or assault. Only her husband, Nura, can shed true light, as he was the first person on the murder scene,” said the source. But Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Magaji Musa Majia said: “Late Aisha was found dead, naked with her two hands tied with a rope, suggesting that she was raped before killed.” He added that police had during investigation discovered some bloodstains and semen on Abdulzahir Muhammad Saminu, one of the two suspects arrested.Saminu is the groom’s friend, while the other suspect is Rabi’u Abdulkadir, a neighbor.” The suspects were later arraigned before a Shari’ah court at Rijiyar-Lemo for a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder contrary to sections 221 and 145 of Kano State Shari’ah Law 2000. In a twist, when the case came up last Monday for continuation, the deceased’s husband Nura Muhammad, was also arrested on the premises of the court as requested by the prosecution counsel Barrister Lamido Abba Soron-Dinki. “We have strong evidence that Nura had a hand in the murder of late Aisha,” he said. Soron-Dinki said three morewitnesses will testify during the next court session. Confirming the arrest, the PPRO DSP Majia, said Nura is being interrogated atthe Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the command. Earlier during the court session, Nura Muhammad as first prosecution witness, told the court that all he knew was that the two accused persons Saminu and Abdulkadir went to his house and his late wife informed them that he (Nura) wasnot around. However, while beingtaken to a vehicle parked at the premises of the court, Muhammad told newsmen: “Evenif one of the two accused persons is my friend does not mean I am party to the murder of my late wife. Why on earth would I kill my own wife?” Alhaji Isa Fagge, late Aisha’s father, told Daily Trust on the phone that he was shocked by his daughter’s death, new of which he got while at work when his son Aminu called him. “I’ve left everything toGod. I have lost her and she will never come back again.” He added that since the police have taken over the case, he hopes justice will prevail. Some residents of Sharada Ja’en spoketo Daily Trust, expressing concern. One of them, Ibrahim Muhammad, said: “We hope the police get the actual killers,” he said. Another resident, Abubakar Ashiru, said: “We have never experienced this kind of incident in this area, so it’s shocking.” The presiding judge of Shari’ah Court Rijiyar-Lemo, Alkali Atiku Bello, adjourned the case till February 11, 2016.
CAN YOU TELL US YOUR BIO IN BRIEF.
My name is Mary Obadaki,born and brought up in Kano,am the only daughter and last child of a family of 5.I Have a diploma in mass communication from BUK and a graduate of Marketing from Kano State Poly.
WHAT DROVE YOU TO BECOME AN OAP?
I love talking to people and I have an inbuilt desire to care for how everybody around me feels.so I had options to pursue medicine or Journalism,so medicine didn't work out so I went for Radio.
WHAT CHALLENGES HAVE YOU HAD BEING AN OAP?
I will prefer we add " being an oap in the North" it's not regarded as a valuable profession,in Kano they feel being an oap is an hobby which is not,around here OAPs aren't stars,just the way some people don't see Reality TV as a career that's what we get here as an OAP,no special treatment,no superstar treatment. Nothing!
HOW DO YOU HANDLE/RELATE WITH YOUR FANS?
I think my fans!! Do I really have fans well i call them my Fam I.E that's Family,so I think they can attest to me being friendly and super honest. So am playfuLly blunt and i think they love it...lol.
WHATS THE CRAZIEST THING A FAN HAS DONE FOR YOU?
Crazy! No but a fan once drove into my station some years to see me and share his opinion about the topic of discussion on air,from that discussion I got a job with a bank where I did my IT,and am still grateful to God for meeting that person.
IF YOU WERE IN A POSITION TO CHANGE ANYTHING ABOUT PRESENTERS/OAPS,WHAT WOULD IT BE?
I will insist on using talent/Creativity to employ and not certicate or who you know,for Radio,you must have a good radio voice to get a job on Radio,atleast a little sense of humour in presentation. A standard pay for OAPS*tongue out*
WHAT DO YOU LOVE MOST AND WHAT DO YOU HATE MOST ABOUT BEING AN OAP?
I love the fact you get to meet new people everytime and it's amazing knowing someone gets help from listening to or motivated to wanna keep going in Life. I don't hate anything perse but It's sad when you give in your best and over time no appreciation especially in this part of the country,this is my 12th year on radio as a presenter and a newscaster but sweetie...it stills like nobody knows me but am optimistic someday my Hardwork will pay.
WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN 5YEARS?
I just launched my site www.talktoyasmin.com so in 5years I wanna work so hard and see the site great,i mean a place where people can get in touch and find solution to some personal or relationship trouble,wanna establish my brand not just as a radio presenter but a motivational speaker and a relationship expert.
NewsDespite crash of the Naira to a record low in the foreign exchange market and surge in price of consumer goods, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, said the nation’s economy remains the “fastest growing in Africa and one of the fastest in the world”.Mr. Buhari said his government cannot afford to fail the huge expectations of Nigerians, adding that the Nigeria’s dominance is not so much because of the wealth, but because of the tremendous energy and resourcefulness of our people.In a keynote address at the public presentation of a book, ‘Nigerian Century’ written by Dare Babarinsa at Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja, President Buhari said with the proper harnessing of abundant human and natural resources in the country, it would attain its greatness.The President, who was represented by former governor of Ekiti State and deputy chairman of All Progressives Congress in the South, Segun Oni, noted that only a Nigeria could have given meaning tothe indomitable spirit, boundless energy, collective creativity, cultural diversity and unique sense of enterprise of Nigerians.He said: “Yes, our land is blessed byprovidence with riches in oil and gas, iron ore, gold, limestone and almost all the minerals of this earth.“Our soil can grow almost any crop and our vegetation supports animal life as varied as creation can manifest. Our rivers and coast lines are rich with fishes and various kinds of life.“Yet, despite these bounties from nature, I have no doubt that the greatest blessings of Nigeria are thepeople of Nigeria, the wonderful people that give expression to the grandeur and majesty of our beloved country.” President Buhari recalled that though Nigeria was born in adversity, nurtured to adolescence in the turbulence of the colonial period and its majesty was forged in the furnace of hard experience of the post-colonial era, the country had been able to overcome its challenges to emerge as the biggest economy in Africa.He said: “Today, our country has thefastest growing economy in Africa and one of the fastest in the world. Our dominance is not so much because of our wealth, but because of the tremendous energy and resourcefulness of our people.“How many countries of the world can parade the likes of Professor Wole Soyinka, Jay Jay Okocha, King Sunny Ade and Alhaji Aliko Dangote literally under the same roof?” Pays tribute to pre-independence leadersWhile paying tribute to the nation’s pre-independence leaders, the President equally hailed former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan for nurturing the country’sdemocracy for the past 16 years. Hesaid: “We are in debt to the foundingfathers of our Republic, Herbert Macaulay, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, AlhajiAhmadu Bello, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and many other heroes of the anti-colonial struggle. “They hoisted for us the banner of freedom that we are still enjoying tilltoday.As President, the experience of each of my predecessors as Chief of State has provided a guiding mapfor us in moments of hard decisionsand when we have to embrace the loneliness of power.‘’The 12 men: Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa-Balewa, General J.T.U. Aguiyi-Ironsi, General Yakubu Gowon, General Murtala Muhammed, General Olusegun Obasanjo, Alhaji Shehu Aliyu Shagari, General Ibrahim Babangida,Chief Ernest Shonekan, General SaniAbacha, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Mallam Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, each had the unique experience of modulating and moderating the sometimes turbulent temper of our great country.”
In a bizarre move, a court in westernCairo this week sentenced a four-year-old boy tolife in prisononvarious heinous charges, including murder.According to Jerusalem post, the child, Ahmed Mansour Karni, received the lengthy prison term Tuesday after being convicted in absentia of offenses that allegedly occurred two years ago, when he was a mere two-years-old.The boy was listed as “wanted” for murder, disturbance of the peace and damaging state property in an indictment that listed 115 other defendants sentenced to life imprisonment.According to the indictment, the exorbitant charges against the youngster include four counts of murder, eight counts of attempted murder, vandalizing property belonging to the Egyptian Health Administration in his home provinceof el-Fayoum (located some 70 kilometers southwest of Cairo), threatening soldiers and police officers and damaging vehicles belonging to security forces.One defense attorney added that he had presented the child’s birth certificate to the court, however “it appeared that the court did not transfer the material.”Lawyer Faisal a-Sayd charged that the presiding judge had not reviewed the case.“The child Ahmed Mansour Karni’s birth certificate was presented after state security forces added his name to the list of accused, but thenthe case was transferred to the military court and the child was sentenced in absentia in an ensuingcourt hearing,” said the defense attorney.“This proves that the judge did not read the case,” he added.Another Egyptian lawyer Mohammed Abu Hurira issued a fiery response, writing: “On the eve of injustice and madness inEgypt, afour-year-old child was sentenced to life imprisonment. He is accused of disturbance, damage to property and murder. The Egyptian scales of justice are not reversible. There is no justice in Egypt. No reason. Logic committed suicide a while ago. Egypt went crazy. Egypt is ruled by a bunch of lunatics.”The sentencing also caused a firestorm on social media networks, with users blasting the Egyptian legal system and government of corruption and injustice.The blogger and wife of Egyptian human rights activist Nibin Melek wrote in a post that the sentencing “was a blind decision.”The court order came less than a year after a blind man in Egypt received a 15-year prison sentence for the shooting of a police officer.
Kannywood screen diva, Rahama Sadau, is one
of the lead actors in new Wale Adenuga’s
Super Story Series, The Other Side. The 2015
City People Best Actress in Kannywood, in this
interviews with OLUSHOLA RICKETTS, speaks
on how she convinced her mother to go into
acting, Nollywood and her passion for the
trade.
You are playing a lead role in Wale Adenuga’s
productions; how would you describe the
experience?
I am in Lagos for the making of Super Story,
The Other Side; it is a new edition. I am
playing a married woman named Asabi, a
strong working woman who is suffering in
the hands of her husband.
I have been on the set for three weeks and
this is my first film with Wale Adenuga. It is
really a pleasure because I have been
watching Super Story since I was a kid.
Super Story is very popular in the North
also. It is wholesome and everything is
working out well. I just love it here.
What influenced your decision to go into acting?
I have always wanted to be an actress, and
you know all you need is a little
opportunity. I just got this little opportunity
and here I am today.
Considering the strict rules guiding the girl child
in the north how did you convince your parents
to support you?
It is true women from the north have
restrictions because of our norms and
tradition. But once you can take care of
yourself and you abide by the rules, you are
free to do all you desire to do. If you have
supportive parents too, everything will work
out well. It is not that they are afraid to let
the girls engage in social activities, but you
need to abide by the rules.
I really went through a lot before my mother
agreed to this because she felt I would be
traveling around, meeting different men,
among others. But once she had faith in me
everything changed.
She even started to query me anytime I was
at home doing nothing. But she wasn’t ready
to let me go into it at the beginning. My
father is not as strict as my mother. He
believes that if you want something you
should go for it. He just wants you to take
care of yourself and make sure you are
doing the right thing.
What did you do to convince her?
When she didn’t allow me I just forgot about
it and went back to school. People had told
her she shouldn’t allow me to act and she
later told me that they said actors drink a lot
and engage in bad habits. I said I had no
idea about that and since she didn’t like it
we shouldn’t talk about it. She then said she
gave me three months to see if I won’t turn
into somebody bad. I can still recall the
shock in her face the day I told her I was
celebrating my first anniversary in
Kannywood. She said she was yet to see
changes in me and that I don’t drink or
sleep outside.
What is your level of education?
I am currently a student of purchasing and
supplying, Kaduna State Polytechnic. At the
time I enrolled for the course I wasn’t sure
my mother would allow me to act. I was
already in school and I had given up acting.
What are the challenges facing Kannywood?
There is nothing more to tell; I think every
industry has its own problems and we’ve
been able to manage ours. We are just a
small community and we try to create things
together. Kannywood is also like an
extended home for me. The only difference
with Nollywood is the language. I would love
to feature more in Nollywood movies, this is
my third year in acting and I am happy with
my contribution. But I just hope more
opportunities come my way.
How would you advise young northerners,
especially girls?
Many girls in the north now see me as an
inspiration. They should believe in
themselves and their abilities. But they
shouldn’t do anything contrary once their
parents say no because it could come back to
haunt them. They should also take their
studies seriously.
So you won’t have objected if your mother
didn’t change her mind?
I won’t ever consider acting without her Things
support and blessing. could get bad if
she said no and I went against her wish. It
would seem like a curse because I didn’t get
her consent.
Where do you see yourself in the next five
years?
I would still be an actress and probably a
mother.
Is there anyone in your life?
So far, I am only focusing on my career
because this is like a beginning for me. I
need concentration to maintain balance
before merging two things together. I am not
seeing anyone at present.
How then do you cope with advances from
men?
Some are fans while some are friends; you
just have to be nice to everybody.
What are the qualities you look for in a man?
It is basically the beauty inside.
What is the craziest thing a fan has done to
you?
There was this fan in Niger that touched me
and began to cry. I was really shocked and I
started wondering what had happened to
her.
Do you have recent awards, recognition?
Oh yes, I have many awards. Last year I
received the City People Award for Best
Actress in Kannywood and it is precious to
me. I also collected Afro Nollywood Awards
in London, Best Actress in Kannywood. I
appreciate these two awards.
So do you have what it takes to compete in
Nollywood?
I would love to join Nollywood like I said
earlier; Super Story is my second film in
Nollywood. I did one in August last year, it
was not a series like the Wale Adenuga
Productions.
I featured in Chidi Chikere’s production
titled The Light Will Come, and I acted
alongside Mercy Johnson and Majid Michel.
I want to be part of Nollywood because
acting has no language. I am using this
opportunity to call on Nollywood producers
and directors to bring more challenges to
me.
Why does it appear that most Kannywood stars
don’t like to leave their comfort zone?
As I told you earlier, sometimes you just
need a little opportunity to move up. I
believe they are yet to get the opportunity to
work in Nollywood. We all know Lagos is a
very big place. If I just come to Lagos to
start acting, where do I go or start from? So
it is not that they don’t like to join, but how
would they go about it? That is the situation
of things.
Is acting hereditary for you?
I grew up watching many movies and I fell
in love with acting gradually. Though l loved
to be an actor as a kid, I was also scared
because I saw actors as people who were far
from me, people I couldn’t see or touch.
We don’t have any actor in my family so I
would say I am the first, but I am now
seeing the possibility in my little sister. I
guess she has been watching me too much. I
am from a family of six; I am the second
born and I don’t joke with my family.
How would you describe your fashion sense?
I just know what looks good on me. I like
Toyin Lawani as a fashion designer; her
work inspires you.
On Sunday, a Danish woman, Anja Ringgren Loven, a Philanthropist an founder of African Children's Aid Education and Development Foundation ( ACAEDF) who lives with her partner and son in Uyo rescued a little boy who had been abandoned by his family because they claimed he was a 'witch'. She took him into her care, fed him, gave him clothes and he is currently receiving some medical attention. This was what she shared on her Facebook page.Today she gave an update on the boy whom she named Hope. We should be proud to be Danes. We are a loving people and we're taking good care of each other. We are always together when there is need our help. When natural disasters hit, famine ravaging and civil wars devastate affects us deeply. We Danes are among the world's most generous. We are the best to donate money to charity, help others and do volunteer work. More than every other of us Danes gives money to charity and help people we don't know. And we must be proud!Right now we danes hung out in the foreign media. Incorrect or not, media account certainly not the true picture ofUS DANES. For when it comes to love there are no countries can match us! So let us give the media something new to write about. Something to really show them who we danes are!Just 2 DAYS HAVE DINNØDHJÆLP RECEIVED 1 million dollars to help little hope!!! Let me repeat that: 1 million Danish kroner is donated to dinnødhjælp in just2 DAYS!!!My feelings are sitting without his clothes! I'm so overwhelmed! I'm so grateful and touched by all the love, care and huge support there just pouring here to Nigeria all the way from Denmark! I want as long as I live thank you all every day! I forget simply never! With all the money we can besides giving hope the very best treatment now also build a doctor clinic on the new land and save many morechildren out of torture! It's just so great! The building must becalled hope clinic - donated city Denmark!! They say thanks is just a poor words, but for me means thank you life! And to those who says otherwise, then we can today together prove to the whole world that charity indeed still exists in Denmark!heart emoticonHope's condition is stable now. He's taking food for himself, and he responds to the medicine he gets. Today he has had powers to sit up and smiling at us. He's a strong little boy. To see him sit and play with my own son is without doubt the greatest experience of my life! I just don't know how to describe it in words. This is what makes life so beautiful and valuable and therefore I will let the pictures speak for themselves:Today we "groundbreaking" ceremony at the construction site. Ground breaking ceremony where we are so lucky to the Danish Ambassador here in Nigeria participates as a guest of honour and the keynote speaker. I can't believe our ambassador and his sweet wife comes entirely from the capital Abuja to our little village where dinnødhjælp builds a new orphanage and participating in our ceremony. It's so big and I am very pleased to see the ambassador again. Today during the ceremony I will think of our architect Martin from engineers without borders and his working groupas in more than half a year now worked every day for putting together and draw dinnødhjælps orphanage in cooperation with our Nigerian engineers. I very much look forward to show you all the outcome when the construction is finished. About1 years running little hope around on dinnødhjælps new orphanage and play with all the other children.
