Happy Birthday Ms Nnaji "34yrs" Still single

Nollywood's superstar actress is a year older today, May 3rd, 2013. Happy birthday to her and many more successful years ahead! but the big question fans are asking is WILL YOU STILL GET MARRIED?

{PHOTOS} Nollywood Actress Mercy Johnson and Hubby Dedication & Thanksgiving Party For Baby Purity

 

Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson and her husband, Prince Odianosen Okojie, as the couple dedicated their 4 month old daughter, Purity Okojie.

The child dedication ceremony took place at the Christ Embassy Church and later on, the couple held a reception for family and friends at their Ajah home. Some of their well-wishers include Ufuoma Ejenobor, Faithia Balogun, Jennifer Eliogu and Tricia Eseigbe-Kerry

Thanksgiving Party

Nollywood Actor "Solomon Akiyesi" tells his own side of the story

Over the last one week, hell has been let loose on me. I’ve not only suffered verbal attacks, but also vituperations and near fisticuffs, all because of another futile attempt of mine at my journey towards achieving that which I honestly and passionately desire – a peaceful home and family. Social network sites and blogs have been awash with how I left Lilian, my “pregnant” wife, to marry Uloma, my Lagos “mistress” whom they also claimed was pregnant for me. Nothing can be farther from the truth.

Only a mad or cursed man would simply leave his pregnant wife and elope with another one. And lest I forget, I urge you, as you read this, to have an open mind to listen to that which is true instead of taking sides and jumping into wicked conclusions with its attendant wicked insults and uncouth commentaries about how Solomon is running his life and how he is not. I’m not asking for pity or trying to buy anybody’s love at this time.

This is my life. If at my age I don’t know what I want, then I may just remain the dumb ass that I’ve been called over and over again. I don’t think I need anyone to give me any lecturing on how I should exercise my privileges.

For the record, I never planned on marrying more than one wife. And unlike the serial husband I’ve been labelled, I had dreamt and planned a lovely home and family.

And my quest for this dates back to 2003 after I had moved into Port Harcourt. I soon settled down with Ezinne, my university days girlfriend, whom I ran into in Port Harcourt during her National Youth Service. As fate had it, we couldn’t help reliving old times and one thing led to another. One fateful, rainy Thursday evening in October, 2002, Ezinne came to inform me that she was pregnant.
It was as far as I was concerned, a devastating blow to the new life I was living; rap music, cars, money and women. So, I told her the pregnancy was unacceptable to me. Besides, I only just started working and needed stability. But months later, Ezinne was to inform me that she was carrying a baby girl.

And knowing my attachment to baby girls and not wanting to ever have a baby outside wedlock, I repented and changed my thuggish ways and asked her to marry me, more so that I was mature enough in every ramification. Or so I thought.

And so, sometime in April, 2003, I hired a hall and invited a pastor to come officiate at my marriage with Ezinne and bless our rings. All done, we went home and started as husband and wife. God, the creator, knew how glad I was and looked forward to a happy home. However, five days after that marriage, I called my new wife on my way from work to ask what was up for dinner and she told me she had been in the hospital.

I rushed to the hospital and was told by Ezinne that she lost the baby. I got her discharged and took her home. But I was completely broken at the loss of a baby I had expected so much. Four days later, I asked my wife if she actually saw the dead baby. She responded by saying the doctor brought it but she gave instruction for it to be buried because she could not behold the sight. Instinctively, I called the doctor – both to thank him and to confirm because he wasn’t around when I went to pick her home. After thanking the doctor, I asked of the sex of my dead baby.

The doctor didn’t talk for like six seconds. I asked him the same question again and he said he’s been restless in his spirit and that he could no longer keep the fact that there was no baby inside Ezinne and that nothing like miscarriage happened in his hospital. I challenged him again and asked if he was not the same person, who confirmed her pregnant and that Ezinne had been attending antenatal in his hospital.

He responded that he had not set his eyes on Ezinne since October of the previous year. Meanwhile, Ezinne had always taken money from me for antenatal and had even shopped for the baby! It then became clear to me that this was a fluke all together.

Sadly enough, Ezinne denied any wrong doing. For three years, I exposed opportunities for Ezinne to simply tell me the truth but she never took advantage of any of the opportunities. Alas! She was not pregnant. I decided to investigate myself and took her for HSG where it was discovered that there were no fallopian tubes in her and that there was evidence of previous surgery of the uterus. I independently probed further and found out with evidence that Ezinne had a life-threatening abortion in 1992 that resulted in the rupture and subsequent removal of her womb and tubes.

My biggest pain was not what I found out but the fact that Ezinne hid all this from me all these years and was still being economical with the truth even when confronted with hard evidence! In frustration, I moved out of the house but not before taking her to her mum in search of the truth.
Even the mum corroborated what Ezinne gave as excuse for the scar that runs from her navel down to her pubic region, i.e. she was operated upon due to menstrual irregularities. I then decided to stay out for good. While I was out, my relationship with Lillian whom I had known years earlier grew.

I was always going to see her in Enugu. I then got me another apartment and Lillian came around quite often too. Gradually Lillian grew from that little girl I was merely helping in her schooling, into a mature, witty and intelligent young woman. So, having taken my people to Ezinne’s place for the dissolution of the marriage – since we did only traditional marriage – I proposed to Lillian.
And, in 2007, we proceeded to the registry for marriage. And that was the day her father started troubling me. He insisted Lillian was not supposed to go home with me. For two years, he cut communication with me. Shortly after the marriage, my businesses ran into a crises and my entire life nose-dived.

There was tremendous loss in my finances. In my travail, Lillian’s father went to the police and told them to deal seriously with me because I was an “irresponsible son-in-law”. When the challenges kept mounting and seeing my life was at risk after I was badly shot, I left town to sojourn elsewhere. In 2010, I gradually re-emerged and we started finding our footing again.

Even though I tried to settle down again, I found that the centre could no longer hold, as Lillian had metamorphosed into a nag and had acquired a fire tongue with which she talked me down and reigned curses on me at any little provocation. There was no week we didn’t have a major fight, whether I was home or not.

At some point, she became religious. And having found her way into Winners Chapel, she suggested to me one day that it was necessary we took our marriage to God since we hadn’t a proper wedding. She said her church pastors were willing to help in blessing our marriage so there could be a turnaround. To this, I obliged. She said she would love for us to wear wedding costumes for the purpose of photographs. To this I also consented. And so, to Winners Chapel we went and were blessed and certificated.

But it was as if that blessing was what someone was waiting for before they would blow the whistle that would usher me into the hall of pain. Lillian became insatiable.

You would see tiny ingredients of marriage only when I could ensure her comfort. Once Lillian’s comfort was compromised, she would lampoon me and tell me my life history in graphic details and lecture me on what Mr. A and B have done for their wives that I’m not able to do.

It’s even worse when I try to remind her of the recent past that I laboured tenaciously to keep her happy. Once she told me that there was nothing I had done in the past that anybody couldn’t have done. Imagine sacrificing all you’ve got, including almost your life, for someone who would tell you it’s no big deal and that any other person could have done what you did. And then, suddenly, she wanted me to quit my acting career or she would divorce me. My phones were always her best companions at night. If she was not reading my texts, she was in my facebook or BBM.

I had no peace. My best moment was whenever I had to leave home for work. And after work I never wanted to go back home. On a trip back home sometime ago, I was praying that my aircraft should crash and I die instead of going home. Even when I was driving home, I was under strong temptation to ram into oncoming vehicles instead of going home.

It was either that a long list of demand would be waiting for me or an equally longer list of questions about whom I had been online with and whom I had been calling and not calling.

Then on the side was a supposed father-in-law, who claimed he regretted the marriage because he wasn’t getting anything from it and that I only came to destroy the love that existed in their family before the marriage. So, my joy knew no bounds when Lillian told me last year that she was pregnant. For me, it was a good thing. Maybe the baby would take her attention away from me at last. Then the heat started again. I must provide N2 million for her to deliver her baby, even though she knows my income and its source. When her pressure got to a head and to avoid the same road I travelled with Ezinne, I took Lillian to a gynaecologist. A scan was run on her and the result was declared before the two of us that she was not pregnant.

This was after she told me that she had done an independent scan and that she was carrying triplets! Even with the medical confirmation, Lillian never stopped her push for N2 million and money for baby shopping. I ended up suffering a partial stroke in January. Yet she would wake me up at 2am to ask me of my plans to raise N2 million for her, even while I was bedridden with stroke.

I knew then that I was going to die in that marriage and had to do something about it. Ladies and gentlemen, this is about my life. If what greeted the Internet and press was that I died, trying to please Lillian and my marriage, people would still insult me and ask why I didn’t take a walk. And taking a walk I tried to do but I did not do it right.

I tried to skip due process to avoid hurting anyone. More so, I did not have the political and emotional will to ask for divorce. Pray, people, divorce is not like going to a grocery store where you go to pay your money and come back with a bag full. What would have been my ground for divorce? I should also confess that I could not find an answer to what would happen to Lillian if I asked her to go because I was more than a husband to her.

So, I foot-dragged to the point of taking the easy way out. And the easy way is not usually the best way as I found out on Saturday, April 13.

Uloma did not just jump into the picture to “snatch” Solomon from Lillian. Uloma has been my friend since 2006. We met again in 2009 at the peak of my business crisis and have been seeing each other afterwards. Candidly, I was swept away by the love, understanding and the peaceful disposition Uloma proffered even as a friend, far from the opposites I was getting back home. The way Uloma treated me was the exact desires any man longed for in a wife. So, I was always running to her whenever Lillian lit her fires.

So, I asked myself why I couldn’t marry her. Far from the evil rumour that I wanted to marry Uloma because of her money, I wanted to marry Uloma to fill a vacuum in her life and make her happy and fulfilled because this woman with a heart of gold who has impacted many lives deserved to be happy.
If that was what I could ever do to plant some comfort in her life. If there was going to be any immediate gain for me, it would have been peace of mind and its attendant long life, not her money or any physical or material gains. I’m not a lazy man.

Apart from being an actor, I have been in business for almost fifteen years. Years back, when I poured millions of naira on exotic cars and a posh house in Port Harcourt, Uloma was a seventy thousand naira recovery staff in Sterling Bank. Today, even if Uloma gave me all her salary from where she presently works, it won’t be enough to put Internet credit in my tablets and phones. Someone even posted that I said I would have ‘hammered’ if I had married Uloma.

What could I possibly gain? Uloma wasn’t frustrated to the point of desperation to pay a man to marry her. There was no award for anyone who married her. She does not own an estate or anything willed to her by anyone that I was running after. Uloma is not the daughter of any rich man or top politician. She’s as much a hustler as I am.

Ok, yes, sincerely, maybe I actually would have ‘hammered’ long life, happiness, inner joy, a sense of being loved and long life. I also would have ‘hammered’ having her sisters as my sisters because they love me like their own brother – a far cry from what my own people give me.

If I had married Uloma, I know I would have had a good burial whenever I died because I’ve always been scared that at my level of loneliness, whenever I die, my corpse would probably have decomposed before my people would find me. I beg to be loved and appreciated. Nobody to call my own.
No one ever cared about me. I have always been alone and hardworking too. From way back, my joys, my sorrows I have always swallowed alone. But Uloma was the only person who truly listened to my heart and understood where I was coming from. So to say any of my failed marriages was for money is simply stupid and unreasonable. The first car Ezinne ever drove and financing for her first attempt at business all came from me.

Lillian was not born with a silver spoon. Her father is only a retired naval officer and the last time I checked he had no wealth ascribed to his name. On her 18th birthday, I bought Lillian an exotic Corolla car. At 300 level in school, I gave her a Mercedes Benz.

Then she graduated with an LS400 Lexus. This is apart from a lush apartment and school bills that God used me to help her take care of. So, who amongst these would I have married for money? Uloma stood out because she’s shared my pain even when it was because of me and that explains why it was a difficult task telling her Lillian was still in my tracks.

I couldn’t have deliberately gone out of my way to hurt Uloma, because that will be simply committing suicide. Hurting Uloma is like waging war against a nation. Is it her legion of admirers I will have to contend with or her nation of die-hard lovers who will be tumbling over each other to get a pound of flesh?

I wouldn’t give hurt for the love and hope Uloma and her family gave me. Unfortunately the same scandals I thought I was preventing by not doing what everyone is saying I would have done is now the same thing staring me in the face, and everyone is worse hurt.

And above all, my own life is now seriously at risk because I feared hurting anyone. I ask all concerned to please sheathe their swords of anger and find it in their hearts to forgive me. I will make restitution as much as the mercy of God permits me. It’s never too late to begin again as far as God keeps us all alive.

I’m a man on a mission for a peaceful marriage, a good home and family life. I guess my desperation took good reasoning off me. Again, I am humbly and truly sorry. I thank my friends who have stood by me through this trial. Your comforting words are like lights on my dark path.
And for the judgmental few, I urge you; work with the truth while the Almighty fixes that which went wrong in my life.

Its Official, Jim Iyke and Nadia Buari, Found Love

For weeks now, Nollywood viewers most asked questions is If Jim Iyke is dating Ghanaian actress, Nadia Buari? We all know his official girlfriend then is a Jamaican babe, Kenturah Hamilton, who he has been dating on and off for the past five years, but his friendship with Nadia is beginning to make me curious. Yes, it's my business to be curious about things like this...lol. His publicist this week denied any romantic relationship between Jim and Nadia but we all know they always deny these things until we find out the truth. For two people who aren't dating, Jim and Nadia seem awfully close. Jim hasn't been spotted with Kenturah in a while, so they might be taking a break. Has he moved on to Nadia? Let's analyze these photos and see what we conclude..:-)

The first and second photo above is Jim and Nadia in Dubai in March for 2face Idibia's wedding. Heard they came together and left together. Peep them holding hands in the right photo. The photo on the left below is the friends at an award ceremony in Uganda in December 2012. The next photo is Jim and Nadia arriving together at his Unscripted premiere in Lagos on Thursday April 18th. The last photo is Jim and Nadia playing around in a desert somewhere in Africa. She posted the photo on her instagram page yesterday and said something about being really happy! Right now, I really can't say if they are dating...but I will find out! I'm onto you two Jim and Nadia. Lol. Cute couple!

{PHOTOS} Hawt Ladies At 2013 AMAA

From top left: Ibinabo Fiberesima, Chioma Akpotha, Rita Dominic, Beverly Naya, Lydia Forson and Linda Ejiofor.

Nollywood Movie Of The Week: Lagos Girls

Four young beautiful girls who are from wretched homes pose as cream chics in public. They see themselves as classy but lives a fake life. They wear the best designers, use the most sophisticated blackberry phones and take taxis to walkable distances so as to show people their high class level lives whereas, they are as cheap that one can have fun with them in a public bathroom for just a little coin.
Is this a real lifestyle of a true Lagos girl? Funke Akindele didn't represent a Lagos girl well in this movie. Lagos Girls, a tragi-comedy.

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African Cinema
Comedy
Drama
Starring:
Taiwo Hassan
Fausat Balogun
Rafiu Balogun
Funke Akindele
Sunny Alli
Dayo Amusa
Directed by:
Abiodun Olarewaju
Produced by:
Sunny Alli
Written by:
Sunny Alli
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Jim Iyke Fights With GF! koolyarns.com

{PHOTOS} Nollywood Comedy At Its Peak... What is OSUOFIA Up To

I don’t understand this.. Help me out pleasee !!! LMAO !! This is SERIOUS... Nollywood funny again Where is Osuofia "NKEM OWOH" please? We need you back to London
On the set of a new Nollywood Flick though.. Funny scene..

“Lesbianism has come to stay in Nollywood” – Actress Vivian Pius

Homosexuality is not a new orientation in Nigeria, for years young teenagers in college have experimented with the same sex but now more people are concerned about how popular it is in public.
Nollywood actress, Vivian Pius, recently said one of the places, being gay, lesbianism is particular is the norm is in the movie industry.
“Lesbianism has come to stay in Nollywood. Though it exists in other industries such as banking, medical and others, that of Nollywood is more open to the public because of who we are, as a society’s role models, she wad reported to have said in an interview while on the set of Simone’s Production in Festac, Lagos.
“It has come to be seen as a cartel where those who belong to a group find it easier getting movie roles. Some of them can even make you rich overnight beyond your expectation. Those who are in it and know their onions can tell you better.”
“They get the best of jobs and are richer driving in big cars and seeing at the best of places. The same thing goes for the homosexuals.”
“The industry has become what many of us never dreamed of, going the way of Hollywood and other European movie industries. It is also in Alaba International Market. They control the industry. It is all about packaging. But there is still hope that those who are not patronizing them will still make it in Nollywood,”

“Lesbianism has come to stay in Nollywood” – Actress Vivian Pius

Homosexuality is not a new orientation in Nigeria, for years young teenagers in college have experimented with the same sex but now more people are concerned about how popular it is in public.
Nollywood actress, Vivian Pius, recently said one of the places, being gay, lesbianism is particular is the norm is in the movie industry.
“Lesbianism has come to stay in Nollywood. Though it exists in other industries such as banking, medical and others, that of Nollywood is more open to the public because of who we are, as a society’s role models, she wad reported to have said in an interview while on the set of Simone’s Production in Festac, Lagos.
“It has come to be seen as a cartel where those who belong to a group find it easier getting movie roles. Some of them can even make you rich overnight beyond your expectation. Those who are in it and know their onions can tell you better.”
“They get the best of jobs and are richer driving in big cars and seeing at the best of places. The same thing goes for the homosexuals.”
“The industry has become what many of us never dreamed of, going the way of Hollywood and other European movie industries. It is also in Alaba International Market. They control the industry. It is all about packaging. But there is still hope that those who are not patronizing them will still make it in Nollywood,”

“Lesbianism has come to stay in Nollywood” – Actress Vivian Pius

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Homosexuality is not a new orientation in Nigeria, for years young teenagers in college have experimented with the same sex but now more people are concerned about how popular it is in public.
Nollywood actress, Vivian Pius, recently said one of the places, being gay, lesbianism is particular is the norm is in the movie industry.
“Lesbianism has come to stay in Nollywood. Though it exists in other industries such as banking, medical and others, that of Nollywood is more open to the public because of who we are, as a society’s role models, she wad reported to have said in an interview while on the set of Simone’s Production in Festac, Lagos.
“It has come to be seen as a cartel where those who belong to a group find it easier getting movie roles. Some of them can even make you rich overnight beyond your expectation. Those who are in it and know their onions can tell you better.”
“They get the best of jobs and are richer driving in big cars and seeing at the best of places. The same thing goes for the homosexuals.”
“The industry has become what many of us never dreamed of, going the way of Hollywood and other European movie industries. It is also in Alaba International Market. They control the industry. It is all about packaging. But there is still hope that those who are not patronizing them will still make it in Nollywood,”

Nollywood Domination! View the Full List of Winners at the African Movie Academy Awards 2013

The 9th edition of the African Movie Academy Awards was held in Yenegoa, Bayelsa on Saturday, April 20, 2013, with the theme – ‘Africa One’. The classy event  hosted by Ama K. Abebrese and saw in attendance some of the nominees as well as some of the known faces in the African entertainment industry including Chioma Akpotha, Femi Jacobs, Banky W, Linda Ejiofor, Jude ‘Engees’ Okoye, Rita Dominic,  AY Makun, Waje and many more.
With Nollywood movies dominating the nominations, it was no surprise that Nollywood movies won most of the categories. The AMAA 2013 prize for Best Film went to a Nigerian movie, “Confusion Na Wa”.
Check out some photos from the event and keep checking BellaNaija for the official photos.

From “The Meeting” – Linda Ejiofor, Femi Jacobs & Jennifer Alegieuno (Make-up)

Rita Dominic

And the winners of the 2013 AMAA’s  are…

• Best Short Film – Kwaku Ananse – Akosua Adoma Owusu (Ghana)
• Best Documentary – Fuelling Poverty (Nigeria)
• Best Diaspora Feature - Stones In The Sun (Haiti / United States)
• Best Diaspora Documentary - Fan Do Brasil (Brazil / Guatamela)
• Best Animation - Adventure Of Zambezia (South Africa)
• Best Film By An African Abroad - Last Flight To Abuja (United Kingdom / Nigeria)
• Achievement In Production Design - Elelwani (South Africa)
• Achievement In Costume Design - Blood And Henna (Nigeria)
• Achievement In Make-up - The Meeting (Nigeria)
• Achievement In Soundtrack - The Last Fishing Boat (Malawi)
• Achievement In Visual Effects - The Twin Sword (Nigeria)
• Achievement In Sound - Nairobi Half Life (Kenya)
• Achievement In Cinematography - Uhlanga, The Mark (South Africa)
• Achievement In Editing - Hereos And Zeroes (Nigeria)
• Achievement In Lightning - Moi Zaphira (Burkina Faso)
• Achievement In Screenplay - Hereos And Zeroes (Nigeria)
• Best Nigerian Film - Confusion Na Wa (Nigeria)
• Best Film In An African Language - Moi Zaphira (Burkina Faso)
• Best Child Actor - The Ugandan (Uganda)
• Best Promising Actor - Joseph Wairimu for “Nairobi Half Life” (Kenya)
• Best Promising Actress - Belinda Effah for “Kokomma” (Nigeria)
• Best Actor In A Supporting Role - Gabriel Afolayan for “Hoodrush” (Nigeria)
• Best Actress In A Supporting Role - Hermelinda Cimela for “Virgin Magarida” (Mozambique)
• Best Actor In A Leading Role - Justus Esiri for “Assasins Practice” (Nigeria)
• Best Actress In A Leading Role - Florence Masebe for “Elelwani” (South Africa)
• Best Director - Niji Akanni for “Hereos And Zeroes” (Nigeria)
• Best Film - Confusion Na Wa (Nigeria)
• Lifetime Achievement Awards - Tunde Kelani | Chief Eddi Ugboma | Sir Ositadinma Okeke Oguno (Ossy Affason) | Ayuko Badu | Chief Pete Edochie
• Film/Video Producers and Marketers Association of Nigeria (FVPMAN) Special Jury Award - Ninah’s Dairy (Cameorun)
• Special Recognition of Pillars of Nollywood @ 20 - Emem Isong | Kanayo O. Kanayo | Kenneth Okonkwo

Photo Credit: Instagram | National Mirror

Church Responds To Solomon Akiyesi's Disrupted Wedding

Overcomers World Outreach, the church where Nollywood actor, Solomon Akiyesi attempted to marry another while still legally married, has responded to the incident that happened yesterday. See their statement below, written by Chika Moses, who is a journalist and the daughter of Bishop N.E. Moses, the General Overseer of the Overcomers Church.

What was meant to be a day of celebration – the wedding ceremony of one of our members Uloma Agwu to Mr. Solomon Akiyesi at the Overcomers Church World Outreach in Aguda – was sullied by an ugly incident. Immediately following the praise and worship session and before the officiating commenced, a woman who claims to be the lawful wife of the groom disrupted the ceremony. She was accompanied by people who sought only to wreck havoc in the church. They were unruly and violent.

We regret the ugly series of events that followed this brash display. At the Overcomers Church, we do our due diligence to ensure a couple set to wed is right in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of God. To the best of our knowledge, Mr. Akiyesi, was unmarried. The Overcomers Church World Outreach regrets that the woman who disrupted the wedding chose such a time to do so. There is no ideal situation here, but it would have been right that she bring the case before church officials in a manner befitting a house of worship. This was not the case.

The groom, Mr. Akiyesi, has apologized to the Church, his bride-to-be, Ms. Agwu, and family and friends that gathered for the wedding. “This happened because I tried to cut corners,” he said. He admits he did not properly dissolve his previous marriage to his first wife and says he is determined to do what is necessary to rectify the awful situation. We apologize for the ugly scene this caused at our Church and apologize to those who witnessed it. It is not exemplary behavior and not who we are as a Church.

The General Overseer of the Overcomers Church World Outreach, Bishop N.E. Moses, addressed the congregation after order was restored.

Bishop Moses prayed for the couple, Mr. Akiyesi and Ms. Agwu, but he did not legally wed them – no documents were signed so as not to disobey the law. Mr. Solomon Akiyesi and Ms Uloma Agwu will not be legally joined together until the matter is properly settled by lawful authorities.

Our Bishop has urged us to take a lesson from this and be careful of the decisions we make in life, so the consequences don’t hurt us in the future. It is a lesson we take well.
We stand by Ms. Agwu. She has been a dedicated member of the church and we will continue to support her and Mr. Akiyesi. It is our hope and prayer that in all of this, God is glorified and His house of worship above reproach.

Chika Moses
Media Representative,
Overcomers Church World Outreach

{ Photos} Julius Agwu's 40th Birthday And Book Launch

The ace comedian's 40th birthday and book launch took place on Sunday April 7th at Harbour Point, Victoria Island. See more photos after the cut...