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  • Genevieve spends fun time with Act The Part winner

    Genevieve spends fun time with Act The Part winner

    It was an exciting weekend for 18-year-old aspiring actress, Bola Suru, who emerged winner of Act The Part, an online acting competition overseen by star actress, Genevieve Nnaji.

    Suru, a university admission-seeker, beat two other finalists, Michael Akan and Chioma Okoye, to the prize of an exquisite makeover and VIP dinner with Nnaji, courtesy of Amstel Malta.

    The competition, Act The Part, is an activation for the Amstel Malta brand, which the actress has been contracted to promote.

    The deal had required fans to act any role from a selected movie of their choice in just two minutes and upload to the brand’s website.

    Staying true to her promise, Nnaji, last Saturday, treated Suru to a superb dinner at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

    The Amstel Malta ambassador, who was clad in a mustard-colour dress by Halston and Heritage, shared fun memories with the aspiring actress and talked about her thriving real estate business.

    Suru, who could not contain her joy, said:

    “I’ve never felt like this in all the 18 years of my life. This is practically the best day of my life and I can’t thank Amstel Malta enough for this”, she said joyously.

    Apparently overwhelmed by her mentorship role, Genevieve too expressed excitement for the initiative. “I’m very glad and thankful to Amstel Malta to have given me this opportunity to meet this amazing young woman. She’s certainly a bundle of talent and I’m willing to support her acting career in every way I can,” she said.

    The winner also had a full body makeover, courtesy of Amstel Malta, before spending the evening with the star, after which she took home several cartons of Amstel Malta can drinks.

  • Amstel arranges date for Genevieve, fan

    Amstel arranges date for Genevieve, fan

    A sensational dinner has been planned around Nollywood screen diva, Genevieve Nnaji and a lucky fan, who will emerge through an online movie competition for the VIP treat.

    The deal comes as activation for the Amstel Malta brand, which the actress has been contracted to promote.

    After resting the Amstel Malta Box Office (AMBO), the movie reality show sponsored by Nigerian Breweries Plc, the company has evolved similar projects of engagement for the malt drink, hence this new initiative called “Act The Part”.

    To take part in the online competition, fans are expected to act any role from a selected movie of their choice in just 2 minutes and upload on the Amstel Malta website. The lucky winner, who will emerge via popular votes, will also be entitled to an exquisite makeover, courtesy of Amstel Malta.

    Genevieve Nnaji, who was announced as a brand ambassador alongside Nigerian Chelsea mid-fielder, Mikel Obi at the 2ndedition of the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA) in February, has promised a very splendid experience for the lucky winner.

    The Amstel Malta brand ambassador and award-winning actress, is inviting fans to join the exciting online competition “Act The Part”, and showcase exceptional acting skills with the golden opportunity of a fantastic experience with her.

  • Genevieve Nnaji: Copy her elegant one colour look

    Genevieve Nnaji: Copy her elegant one colour look

    GENEVIEVE is one of Nigeria’s most-loved actresses and part of her charm is her fun and girly personality, as well as her super cute style.

    Whether it’s on the red carpet at show or acting what she knows how to do best on, Nollywood actress, model and fashion designer, Genevieve Nnaji’s style in recent years has been beyond reproach. Genevieve’s style by itself is worthy of a few minutes of any professional woman’s consideration.

    Over the last few years, Genevieve has dressed with aplomb in a slew of situations from skirt and blouse wear to stunning dinner pieces. But it’s her combination style that has us most enamored.

    The keys to turning this simple garb into show-stopping class are ingenious and figure-flattering cuts, high-quality materials and disciplined posture.

    Her stunning one colour garb and entire looks speak glamour. So, it wouldn’t hurt you to copy Genevieve’s style. Doesn’t she look glamorous?

  • Why Genevieve, Omotola are ‘jobless’, says Obi Emelonye

    Why Genevieve, Omotola are ‘jobless’, says Obi Emelonye

    Ever paused to ask why Genevieve Nnaji and Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, two Nollywood famed actresses, are virtually disappearing from your home video screens these days?

    If you can’t find any answer to this poser, then, you will have to turn to ace producer, Obi Emelonye, for a likely hint.

    According to the producer and director of Mirror Boy and Last Flight to Abuja, the actresses are victims of their own success, as few opportunities have come their way recently.

    In an interview, Emelonye was quoted to have said that “Genevieve and Omotola are the two biggest actresses we have in Nollywood. They cannot afford to charge less than their status and that is where the problem comes in. Their charges are probably above what the industry can afford. Their charges are like half of the entire production budget of a movie, so which producer can afford that?”

    “What they can do now, as it is with other big stars all over the world, is that they should begin to fund their own productions and act in them. They can act whatever role(s) will enhance their brands. They need to start a production company now and push themselves because they need to remain relevant and must not be seen as jobless. If corporate bodies perceive them as jobless, they won’t want to do business with them and might even price them cheap.”

  • Why Genevieve missed London premiere

    Why Genevieve missed London premiere

    Actress Genevieve Nnaji may have been given a diminutive role in the UK/Nigeria co-production; Half of a Yellow Sun, an adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s book directed by Biyi Bandele, but her absence at the London premiere of the film appeared to be greatly felt. The first public outing of the movie at the just concluded Toronto International Film Festival witnessed a huge crowd, including Africans, who wanted to catch a glimpse of the cast, which included Nnaji and veteran musician, Onyeka Onwenu.

    But flying to London for the second leg of the screening, Nnaji suddenly came down with flu. Director Bandele said on his Facebook page: “Just got back from the BFI London Film Festival European premiere of Half of a Yellow Sun at the Odeon West End. Humbled and moved by the rapturous reception the audience gave it. It was also great to see the hardest working actor on our hemisphere, Chiwetel Ejiofor, the great John Boyega, the amazing Babou Ceesay, and the one and only Onyeka Onwenu. And Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, of course… We missed Thandie, who is on location in Vancouver. We missed Genevieve, who flew in for the premiere and promptly went down with flu (mind yourself o, London weather). What a night though. What a night.”

    Thandie, the lead female act in the movie may have been on location for close to two months now. The actress, who is pregnant with her second baby had rushed out of the ‘Q and A’ during the Toronto premiere in September, saying she had a flight to catch to Vancouver.

    Half of a Yellow Sun is one of the most eagerly awaited films to come out of Africa in recent years. The film is based on the Nigeria-Biafra war of 1967 to 1970, is weaved around a love story set in the war. But media reviews for the movie, touted to have cost $8 million (about N1.2 billion) have not been positive, given lapses Associated to the director’s inexperience. It is the first time that Bandele is shooting a feature film and critics wonder why he should be experimenting with a huge budget film, with collaborative efforts of two countries.

    The film focuses on two wealthy sisters, Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose), who, upon returning from their UK education, choose two completely different lives.

    “Newton’s Olanna gives up her social status to live with the radical academic Odenigbo (Ejiofor), whilst Rose’s Kainene becomes a successful businesswoman who falls in love with an English writer. Betrayals threaten to tear the sisters apart but soon they are both in the middle of the civil war turbulence,” says CNN in its review of the film.

    Nnaji, in the movie played Ms. Adebayo, a prostitute merely appears in just two short scenes. Onwenu’s presence, could be said to be better felt as the second Nigerian in the cast.

     

  • More mansions for Genevieve

    More mansions for Genevieve

    ACCORDING to emerging Information, star actress Genevieve Nnaji has purchased a luxurious home in highbrow Parkview Estate situated at Ikoyi. The property, acquired by the actress who moved into a new mansion Oniru Estate area of Lekki last year, is graded at a whooping N220million.

    Findings show that the actress now owns three mansions in exclusive and expensive areas of Lagos, as she recently built a multimillion naira mansion for her parents in Lekki, bringing to three the number of her edifices.