Lanre Balogun   Lanre Balogun is a Nigerian actor. He tells Nollywoodgossip: “I started acting 30 years ago.” He says that acting is in-born, and that he loves the art of expression. He says he’s currently working on a movie titled Shattered Hearts, directed by him and produced by Prince Gbolahan Oluwa and Tolu Yesufu. He says that the movie Hostages...

Aderounmu Adejumoke Aderounmu Adejumoke is a Nigerian actress from Ogun State. She tells Nollywoodgossip: “I’ve been in the industry since 2007.” She says: “I was advised to go into acting by Mr Tunji Ojeyemi.” She says: “Back then, he was a lecturer in my school (OAU Ile Ife) and I met him one day when I went for lectures at the drama department.” “He...

Femi Brainard    Femi Brainard is a Nigerian actor. He tells Nollywoodgossip: “Professionally, I started acting in 1997.” On how he became an actor, he says: “A close friend of mine Ayo Adesanya saw something in me, took me to Uncle Tunji Bamishigbin – the rest you know.” On first time on set, he says: “It wasn’t funny. I rehearsed my lines...

Olalekan Oladipupo Lekinson   Nigerian actor Olalekan Oladipupo popularly known as Lekkinson is dead, Nollywoodgossip has learned. And according to PM News, Oladipupo died yesterday at the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Osun State. The paper further reported that the actor may have died of a heart related ailment. It said that the former president...

Baba Suwe released Nigerian comic actor Baba Suwe is set to be N26 million richer, Nollywoodgossip is reporting. His lawyer today says that a court has ordered the drug agency to pay Suwe $165,000. According to the Lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, a Lagos court has ordered Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to pay the comedian damages for “violating (his)...

Baba Suwe released Baba Suwe has been released, Nollywoodgossip is reporting. The comic actor arrested on suspicion of ingesting drugs to smuggle to Europe was on Friday freed on bail after 25 closely monitored bowel movements produced nothing suspicious. Babatunde Omidina, known by his stage name Baba Suwe, was arrested last month at Lagos’s international...

Baba Suwe This case is becoming more and more bizarre. Nollywoodgossip just learned that new scan showed that Nollywood actor Baba Suwe has large amount of drugs in his body, even though he has made many excretions without any trace of drugs. And a Nigerian Federal High Court has granted the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, permission to hold the Yoruba...

Baba Suwe Baba Suwe’s drug saga continues. According to news reaching Nollywoodgossip, the popular actor who is being held at the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) yesterday made his second excretion without any trace of drug found. Yesterday excretion has made it the second Baba Suwe has excreted since his arrest by the anti-narcotic...

Baba Suwe Popular Yoruba actor Baba Suwe (real name Alhaji King Babatunde Ayinla Nurudeen Olasunkanmi Omidina) is said to be have been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with substances suspected to be hard drugs concealed in his stomach. Based on reporting circulating around, Baba Suwe was arrested last night at the Murtala Muhamed International...

Sola Fosudo Dr. Sola Fosudo of Music and Theatre Arts Department, Lagos State University (LASU), does not need much introduction. He’s a movie star and an academic. He has achieved feats both at the educational and theatre art sectors. To crown it, he holds the prestigious title, Otunba. In this interview with The Sun and obtained by Nollywoodgossip, Fosudo spoke...