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Joke Silva

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Actresses, Nollywood Movie Directors on 2-12-12

Joke Silva (born 1961) is a Nigerian actress and director.She has received several awards and nominations for her work as an actress including the awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2006, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2008 Silva was born in Lagos, Nigeria, into a family of 4 children. She attended Holy Child College in Lagos after which she studied English at the University of Lagos. She then relocated to England and studied drama at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Silva...

Eucharia Anunobi

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Actresses, Nigerian Models, Nigerian TV Hosts on 2-4-12

Eucharia Anunobi is a Nigerian Actress, Compere/MC, TV Presenter/Host, Motivational Speaker, Model ((Print and Run-way), Events Planner/Manager, Interior Decorator, Writer, Evangelist, and Marriage Counsellor. The movie star, who hails from Imo State, Nigeria, has Masters in Social Work (MSW) from Lagos State University (LASU) and Bachelor of Arts (B. A) English Language from the University Of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN). Renowned for her immense beauty, Eucharia, was crowned Miss I.M.T Enugu, 1987/88. Her modelling career reached climax in 1993 when she won the Model of The Year at the...

Van Vicker

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian actors on 2-2-12

Joseph van Vicker (born August 1, 1977), better known as Van Vicker, is a Ghanaian actor. He received two nominations for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Upcoming Actor at the African Movie Academy Awards in 2008. Vicker was born to a Liberian Ghanaian mother and a Dutch father.His father died when he was six years old. He has often cited in interviews that he considers himself a global citizen as he was raised all over the world by his mother. Due to the early death of his father Vicker has stated that he is very close to his mother and considers her his hero. Vicker attended...

Eeefy Ify Ike

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Actresses, Nigerian Models, Nigerians Writers on 1-26-12

Eeefy is a successful model and actress who is today broadening her endeavors with a new book, a clothing line and a charitable foundation to aid burn victims around the world. Herself afflicted by terrible burns as a child, Eeefy has made creating more burn centers around the world, the primary goal in her life, even beyond her career in entertainment and fashion. Her New World Hope Foundation is today becoming a major force in bringing awareness to the need of medical facilities for burn victims in impoverished communities. Eeefy was born in Nigeria. She’s the 13th of 17 children, six...

Olu Jacobs

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian actors, Nigerian Models on 1-22-12

Oludotun Jacobs (popularly known as Olu Jacobs, born 1942), is a Nigerian actor. He has starred in several British television series and international films. In 2007 he won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Jacobs trained at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England. He then starred in various British television shows and series in the 1970s (e.g. The Goodies, Till Death Us Do Part, Barlow at Large, The Venturers, Angels, 1990, The Tomorrow People, The Professionals). In the 1980s Jacobs starred in several international films some of which...

Juliet Ibrahim

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Actresses, Nigerian Models, Nigerian Musicians on 1-11-12

Juliet Safo aka Juliet Ibrahim is a Ghanaian actress whose fresh faced beauty alongside her amiable nature has endeared her to her numerous ever growing fan base. She is very intelligent, talent -oriented, friendly, ambitious, highly-spirited, honest, humble, and smart, with a bubbly personality. She loves reading, writing, listening to music, dancing, modelling, shopping and travelling. Considered the “fresh face” of Ghollywood (Ghana movie industry), Juliet made her film debut in Crime to Christ, 2007 co-starring Majid Michel, one of Ghana’s brightest male...

Jude Dibia

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerians Writers on 1-2-12

Jude Dibia is the author of two well received novels; Walking with Shadows (2005) and Unbridled (2007). Dibia’s novels have been described as daring and controversial by readers and critics in and out of Africa. Walking with Shadows is said to be the first Nigerian novel that has a gay man as its central character and that treats his experience with great insight, inviting a positive response to his situation. Unbridled, too, stirred some controversy on its publication; a story that tackled the emancipation of its female protagonist who had suffered from incest and abuse from men. Unbridled...

2Face Idibia

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Musicians on 12-21-11

Innocent Ugah Idibia (born in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria), best known by his stage name 2Face Idibia, is a Nigerian singer-songwriter, actor and record producer. He was a member of the defunct R&B/hip hop group Plantashun Boyz. 2Face is currently one of the most popular artistes on the African music scene. 2Face Idibia was born Innocent Ugah Idibia in Jos, Nigeria. He hails from Okpokwu local government area and from the Idoma ethnic group in the southern part of Benue State, in central Nigeria. He attended Mount Saint Gabriel’s Secondary School in Makurdi, Benue State. He schooled...

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Actresses, Nigerian Musicians, Nigerians Writers on 12-13-11

Omotola .J. Ekeinde is a Nigerian actress and musician. Born into the family of late MR & MRS SHOLA JALADE, she has two brothers Tayo and Bolaji Jalade. She attended Christland Nursery School Opebi, Oxford Children School Santos Layout, Command Secondary School Kaduna and Yaba College of Technology where she read Estate Management. She married to a pilot, CAPTAIN MATTHEW EKEINDE Jnr, on the 23rd of March 1996 at the Ikeja registry and later did white wedding on board a Dash 7 Aircraft flying Lagos to Benin on the 21st of April 2001. She is a mother of four kids, Princess, M.J, Meriaih...

Carol Jiani

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Musicians on 12-11-11

Carol Jiani, born Uchenna Ikejiani is a Nigerian-Canadian singer based in England best known for her early 1980s hit “Hit N Run Lover”. Uchenna Ikejiani was born in Nigeria to an Igbo family. Jiani moved from Nigeria to Montreal, Canada in the mid-1970s to study at Concordia University. In autumn 1977 she auditioned to appear on Joe La Greca’s album Montreal. In early 1978 Jiani recorded two tracks for the project, “If You Believe in Me” and “Higher and Higher”. These were released on an EP, with her credited under her birth name. Glenn LaRusso of...

Ini Edo

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Actresses on 12-4-11

Sultry Nollywood actress Ini Edo has that approachable-girl-next-door-quality that makes you feel like you know her and you are best friends. Combine that with a voluptuous shape, sweet smile and some lethal acting skills and you know this no ordinary girl next door but an acting dynamo waiting to explode on your television screen! Born in Calabar, Cross River state, into a family of six, this indigene of Akwa Ibom, attended Cornelia Connelly College in Calabar for her secondary school education, and crowned it with a diploma in Theatre Arts from the University of Uyo in Akwa Ibom. She...

Stella Damasus

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Actresses, Nigerian Musicians, Nigerian TV Hosts on 12-4-11

Stella Damasus is a Nigerian entertainer who is most notable for her work as an actress. She is considered to be one of the most popular film actresses in Nigeria and has also on several occasions been involved in stage performances while combining this with other business ventures, especially music, her first call. An indigene of Asaba in Delta State, Stella grew up in Benin City, Edo State. She started her early education at Greater Tomorrow Comprehensive School and when her parents moved to Asaba, she joined them and continued her education in Santa Maria Private School, Ibusa, after...

Zeb Ejiro

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Movie Producers, Nollywood Movie Directors on 12-4-11

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Sam Dede

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian actors on 12-4-11

Sam Dedetoku (meaning Glory of the Morning) is from Okrika in Rivers State. He was born in Lagos at National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi and is the last born of a family of eight. Sam grew up briefly in Sapele before relocating to Port Harcourt where he has lived all his life. His dad was a soldier, who fought in the civil war and was in the medical corps of the Nigerian Army before his death in 1972. He was a former lecturer at the University of Lagos. Now, he lectures in the Department of Theatre Arts in the University of Port Harcourt. His first love is lecturing before he joined the...

Chika Ike

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Actresses on 12-4-11

Chika Nancy Ike was born on November 08 on a Friday at about 4.45am. She is an actress, model and an entrepreneur. This Nigerian beauty can do just about anything you would expect a woman to do and even more. She stands at 5ft 10in tall, black haired and sexy brown eyes. Chika grew up in a close knit family of eight in Lagos Nigeria. She was raised by her parents who did not fail to imbibe discipline, hard work and tolerance in her. Chika as a child was nick named by her nanny- Rebecca, Fancy Nancy because of her fanciful and funny character as a child. She was sometimes caught in her mum’s...

Genevieve Nnaji

Posted by Nollywoodcelebrities Staff in Nigerian Actresses on 12-1-11

Genevieve Nnaji started her acting career as a child actress in the then-popular television soap opera “Ripples” at the age of 8. She was also featured in several commercials, some of which included Pronto beverage and Omo detergent. In 1998, at the age of 19, she made her debut in the growing Nigerian film industry with the movie “Most Wanted.” As an upcoming actress, trying to create a niche for herself, she went through various minor roles seeking for that opportunity for a breakthrough. Her subsequent movies–”Last Party,” “Mark of the...