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TEMPLE COMPANY QUESTIONS NIGERIA BOX OFFICE RANKINGS 2024 REPORT

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The Temple Company wishes to address certain inaccuracies in the recently released Nigeria Box Office Rankings 2024 by FilmOne Entertainment, published on January 8, 2025.

 

While we appreciate FilmOne’s initiative in providing industry analytics, we must highlight significant oversights in the report, particularly concerning the “Highest Grossing Female in a Supporting Role” category.

 

Of specific concern is the misrepresentation of Bisola Aiyeola’s contributions to the year’s cinematic achievements. Despite delivering compelling performances as Supporting Lead in multiple successful productions including “Everybody Loves Jenifa,” “Ajosepo,” “Muri,” and “Ko,” her significant role as Madam Bassey in “Everybody Loves Jenifa” was notably omitted from her box office aggregation.

 

This omission raises important questions about the methodology employed in the ranking system, particularly:

 

1. The classification criteria between lead and supporting lead roles

2. The consistency in applying these criteria across all evaluated performances

3. The transparency of the data aggregation process

 

The traditional industry standard defines supporting roles based on screen time and narrative impact, with supporting actors having fewer but impactful appearances compared to leads. This established metric appears to have been inconsistently applied in the current rankings.

 

Furthermore, this discrepancy extends to other performers, including Nancy Isime (ranked fifth), whose similar supporting role in the same production received different classification treatment.

 

While the Nigeria Box Office Rankings represent a valuable opportunity to showcase our industry’s economic impact and market significance, such inconsistencies risk undermining its credibility as an industry benchmark.

 

We respectfully request a review of the ranking methodology and data aggregation process to ensure accuracy and fairness in representing our industry’s achievements.

 

The Temple Company remains committed to supporting initiatives that promote transparency and accuracy in our industry’s reporting standard.

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‘It’s over between us’ — Oluwadolarz’s fiancee Ifeluv announces break-up

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Popular content creator Ifeluv has announced her break-up with her fiancé and baby daddy, singer Oluwadolarz.

SOCIETY REPORTERS reports that the development comes four months after singer Oluwadolarz proposed to Ifeluv.

In a post on her Instagram page on Tuesday evening, Ifeluv accused Oluwadolarz of infidelity and financial irresponsibility.

In a lengthy statement, she claimed that he had failed to fulfil his promises after their engagement.

She wrote: “I left him the first time because of cheating. He spent two years trying to convince me that he had changed.

“Meanwhile, I have been taking 85 per cent responsibility for our child because he is broke most of the time. Just living a fake life and chasing anything in a skirt. He absolutely has nothing to his name. If you give him an advert deal, he won’t deliver.

“Brands keep threatening him, and every time he sees me achieving something, he starts crying because he hates it. But guess what? I make my own money.

“I rarely even visit him. He even embarrassed me online with a public apology, and I let it slide, accepting his proposal—only to go pick up my son at his place and find his actress, Lola, hiding in the bathroom. And this guy looked me dead in the eye and said nothing was going on!

“This man was my absolute first. But now? It’s over.”

Oluwadolarz has not responded to the allegations at the time of this report.

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Baba Tee: Anybody Who Moves Close To My Wife Will Die – Portable Sends Stern Warning

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Controversial singer, Habeeb Okikiola, aka Portable, has warned men to stay away from his wife, Ashabi Simple.
The singer stated that any man who sleeps with his wife will end up dead. Portable gave the warning while reacting to Nollywood actor Babatunde Bernard Tayo, aka Baba Tee’s confession of sleeping with his colleague Ijoba Lande’s wife, Darasimi.

Speaking via a series of voice notes shared on Instagram, Portable expressed his disappointment over Baba Tee’s action.

In the voice notes, Portable condemned his action, stressing that he has so much respect for the actor and never expected him to do such a thing.

He said, “Baba Tee, with the way I like you so much, you shouldn’t be sleeping with other people’s wives.

“You gave Lande’s wife doggy, is that how you people behave in the movie industry? I swear to God, if anybody moves close to my own wife, the person would die o, my wife that is an actress, if I see anybody doing rubbish with her, the person will die. I’m telling you because it should not be like that. Why would you sleep with that guy’s wife? And I like and respect you o.

“Normally, the person who sleeps with another man’s wife is not at fault but why did you sleep with another man’s wife? Don’t you know it’s a dirty thing that causes setback? You that you’re a blessed person.

“A man who sleeps with another man’s wife despite knowing her husband, it’s a setback for him. God won’t let you see set back bro. With the way women are many in the world, you’re now allowing that man molest you, even if though his wife is a dog.

“Please o I’m begging you in God’s name, you know you come to visit me a lot and we both visit each other, it won’t be good if we become enemies.

“Now that Truth or Dare is what you’re using to sleep with other people’s wives, please stop it, it’s not good egbon.

 

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Court summons VeryDarkMan over defamation of Mercy Chinwo

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A Chief Magistrate’s Court in Wuse Zone 6, Abuja, has summoned controversial blogger, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan over alleged criminal defamation of gospel singer Mercy Chinwo.

The court, in a summons dated March 5, 2025, ordered VDM to appear in person on March 13, 2025, to respond to allegations brought against him by Chinwo.

Chief Magistrate Emmanuel Iyanna issued the directive following claims that the blogger made damaging statements about the singer on social media.

The dispute stems from VDM’s online posts, where he accused Chinwo of misappropriating $345,000 allegedly linked to her former record label boss, Ezekiel Onyedikachukwu, also known as Eezee Tee.

The singer, however, dismissed the claims as false, providing emails, receipts, and other documents to counter the allegations.

In the criminal complaint filed by her legal team, led by Pelumi Olajengbesi of Law Corridor, Chinwo argued that VDM’s actions violated Sections 391 of the Penal Code and Section 24(1)(B) of the Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act 2015.

Aside from the criminal charges, Chinwo has also filed a N1.1 billion defamation lawsuit against the blogger at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

The lawsuit seeks an order compelling VDM to delete all alleged defamatory posts, issue a public apology, and retract his statements.

Meanwhile, a separate case involving Eezee Tee remains before the Federal High Court in Lagos.

On February 17, 2025, the court upheld a subsisting arrest warrant against the record label executive over alleged fraudulent conversion, with his arraignment scheduled for March 6, 2025.

Chinwo’s lawyers contend that VDM’s social media posts, made on February 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, and 17, were intended to tarnish the singer’s image and mislead the public.

They maintain that the false claims have caused significant reputational damage, professional setbacks, and emotional distress to their client.

With the court summons now in place, all eyes will be on March 13, when VDM is expected to answer to the allegations before the magistrate.

 

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