Nollywood Star Blasts Tiwa Savage Over Her Raunchy Video

 Charles Novia is the latest of Tiwa Savage's critic to emerge. The famous Director wants the singer who recently got married to show more respect for the marriage institution. Although her husband Tee Billz isn't at all bothered, as he sees nothing wrong with the video. Read what he had to say below...... 

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Charles Novia Blast Nigerian Celebs Who Won't Stop Flaunting Their Fake Lifestyle!

  Nollywood actor/director and producer Charles Novia is very pissed off and according to him, these celebs know very well their source of income isn't their singing or acting.

 He said; These celebrities keep deceiving Nigerians. 

Among the present crop of Nigerian musicians, I would vote for Tuface Idibia as the most humble of the lot.  

His humility is well-known by a lot of people as one of his greatest assets added to a very warm and friendly disposition. Apart from his humility, one appreciable virtue he has is his sense of modesty even when he is easily one of the richest musicians in Nigeria.

 You don’t really see Tuface going on Instagram or other social networks to flaunt a new watch or new car or some material possession. Not because he cannot afford them but because he has sense of proprietary. 

I had an informal conversation with him in Atlanta, USA in October 2013 one evening when we were both hanging out with a bosom friend and brother, Chris Ikpefua of Vogue Entertainment, USA and Tuface told me something profound and touching. [He said]:

You know what? Sometimes I look back and remember how I started, who I started with, the other musical groups we had when we started and the solo artistes then. I look around now and for some reason God has made me still relevant till now for close to twenty years in the music industry. It humbles and chills me.

  

I feel sad that most of my peers are not where I am too. Artistes who struggled with us to build the music industry to this level with their talent when there was no structure. I feel very sad for them, Bros. 

I am also aware that many of the young and even the established artistes look up to me as a role model of sorts.  If I screw up, they too might screw up. So, Bros, I went into properties. Immediately I started buying houses, the others looking up to me slowed down and began to invest in properties too. It made me happy because they would have something to fall back to later in life. Bros, I get properties but nor be wetin dem dey shout about.’

I was impressed by his sense of acumen and again modesty in wealth. But Tuface is an exception. I wish I could say the same for the crop of  Nigerian artistes who love flaunting their material possessions for all to see. 

More often than not, those things being flaunted are part of a hype culture. There is a need to ‘belong’ and most of those acts, wracked by a poverty mentality, believe a $300,000 designer wristwatch or an expensive car or SUV are the yardstick to measure their wealth. No, they are not. Maturity and moderation matters. A rich person does not need to tell the world he or she is loaded. The world perceives it.

Our musicians and actresses  deluding themselves on social media with this flaunting fad are not being true to themselves.

 The entertainment industry is a coterie community and the statistics of income are not hidden.

 When you try to hoodwink the public that you bought a house or a diamond watch just from the singing and prancing on stage in an industry where CD sales are dropping, or that you bought some house in Ikoyi just by being an unmarried actress when we all know how much an actor is paid for a role, is stretching the story a bit too far. 

Granted, these artistes might have other legitimate sources of income but such sources are negligible in turnover. One day, very soon, those wealthy shady barons and pimps using the artistes in the industry as cannon fodder might just move to another area of interest. 

And don’t get me wrong, how people make their money is entirely their own business. 

What I am pissed about is the deception; the whole stinking deception. These artistes hoodwinking the public that they made their money through their art when there is more to it. Others who are not in the entertainment sector make money through these same avenues these artistes use but they don’t come out shouting about it as such.

In essence, what I am saying here is:

Guys, make una cool down. Make your money as codedly as una don dey make am. Make your work dey speak for you for one side and your money dey quietly answer you for the other side. 

The fake life and lies don dey too much for many of una. Shikena!

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Controversial Producer/Director Names List Of Nollywood's Best 5 Actors Of 2013

 Charles Novia the Nollywood producer/director who earlier released a list of his best female actresses in the industry, he has now come out with that of the actors, Read what he wrote below;

''In my earlier assessment of the five best actresses of 2013, I used personal and universally accepted criteria to arrive at my conclusions. Obviously, a lot of actresses left out of the last list must have felt shortchanged but I still don’t have apologies for any omission therein. The same process goes with this list for the Best Five Actors in 2013 in Nollywood.

Once again, I state here that those actors and actresses who strut red carpets and push their publicity agenda through a dime-a-dozen instagram pictures should actually decide if they wish to be actors or socialites.

Enough of confusing the people with plastic smiles at almost every red carpet event. Let people judge you on the MERITS of your art than on your MEANDER on red carpets. Over exposure is not talent.

NUMBER 5: THE COMEDIANS (SEYI LAW, BOVI UGBOMMA AND KELECHI UDEGBU)

As controversial as this may seem to some people, I believe there are merits in recognising the names tied on this list on the number 5 spot. I could actually have chosen just one when it came to the crunch but decided to first and foremost acknowledge the input of these guys into the comedy genre of Nollywood , which is often overlooked when giving awards. Secondly, whether anyone likes it or not, these comedians do know HOW TO ACT.

NUMBER 4: BLOSSOM CHUKWUJEKWU

 Somehow, in 2013, Blossom came into the scene and perhaps asserted himself as one we all must take notice of.  He isn’t just good looks. He seems to be eager to learn more and to prove himself beyond the ‘Fine Boy, No pimples’ looks.

                                          

NUMBER 3. ODUNLADE ADEKOLA

 I don’t judge actors on whether they are in Nollywood or in ‘Yoruwood’ or any other ethnic coinage. This actor in the Yoruba genre of movies, Odunlade Adekola, has stood out in 2013. I watched a couple of his movies and he impressed me with his style, attention to characterisation, internalisation and a restrained attempt not to be melo-dramatic.

 I don’t even understand Yoruba so it speaks volumes about how his acting made an impact on me. I am told that he is presently the biggest star in the Yoruba film sector. I can see why. Talent do not lie.

                                               

NUMBER 2: RAMSEY NOAH

 It was tough putting Ramsey in the Number 2 spot because he is a damned good actor. Very good. Having worked with him in eight of my movies in the past, I know his abilities but I am yet to know his acting limitations.

I believe Ramsey would stun us all in 2014 when Izu Ojukwu’s ’76′ hits the screens. We are yet to see the best of Mr Noah. We have only seen the stirrings of a best.

NUMBER ONE: O.C. UKEJE

No apologies to anyone. My Number One Actor for 2013 would be OC Ukeje. In arriving at this conclusion, I had the uncomfortable task of distancing his acting in my movie ‘Alan Poza’ from the list of other movies he was assessed with. But one cannot ignore that in 2013 alone, OC has won the ‘Best Actor’ diadem FOUR TIMES at the AMVCA, NEA, BON and NMA awards. He has also been nominated for ‘ Best Actor’  a record EIGHT TIMES in a single year. Now, that is enough to make heads turn and so they should. This is a feat even the older acts in Nollywood cannot boast of.

Watching OC Ukeje in three movies in the past year was a stunning experience. Since 2006 when OC won the top prize in the ‘Amstel Malta Box Office’ (AMBO), the young man had been relatively quiet and picky with his scripts, preferring to feature more in stage productions and promising scripts. That sense of purpose paid off in the long run.

Like the Bible says, you can’t hide a light under a bushel. OC’s illumination in the acting space can be seen in ‘Confusion Na Wa’, ‘The Awakening’ and ‘Hoodrush’. In these movies, the power of his art can be seen. He has an unusual intensity as an actor and a peculiar propensity to project his characterisation which would leave many with gaping mouths. This young man has a lot to give to us in the nearest future. All we have to do is to receive''.

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Charles Novia replies Rita Dominic’s Diss

Charles Novia listed his top 5 Nollywood actresses for 2013 and placed Rita Dominic at number 5.He said she was fantastic in the movie”The Meeting”.However he said he wasn’t to impressed with her role in “Finding Mercy”. If you missed the lists CLICK HERE.

Coincidentally, Rita won the BON Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same “Finding Mercy ” movie he said she didn’t do well in…so she took to twitter to say “Check that Charles Novia has not Drowned himself“..He replied that he still stands by his opinion.

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''Jim Iyke’s Deliverance Is A Fraud, He Was Paid To Do It” – Segun Arinze And Charles Novia Claim

Nollywood celebrities are now giving a piece of their mind after the video of Jim Iyke’s deliverance at Pastor TB Joshua’s church surfaced.

Some of Jim Iyke's colleagues in the Nigerian movie industry claim he was paid by the alleged false prophet to act up the whole deliverance episode.

Segun Arinze who claims Nollywood is now entering church said this via his blackberry phone. Read his statement below;

“This Jim Iyke’s deliverance video at the Synagogue trending looks too contrived. It’s a big embarrassment. Has anyone ever seen demons come out live and speak? Una fit stand demons? Una carry Nollywood enter Church, abi? How much did he get paid? I’m just wondering. Make una stop all these nonsense play. Haba. Stranger than fiction!”

Another Nollywood movie producer, Charles Novia has spoken. The popular Nollywood critic said deliverance issue should be made personal and not as televised by TB Joshua.

Check out his opinion below;

“So, Jim Iyke got ‘delivered’ of an evil demon in a popular church recently? Mmmmm. Chai! Strange things happen. And after Jim Iyke’s deliverance, the ‘new’ Jim Iyke barked out at his PA about his shoes off his legs? Hmmmm. #GTFOH. All I can say is that ‘whatever floats your boat, brother’. Better send those poor women you have dated to same church for same #GTFOH. These Nollywood stars and the rush for ‘deliverance’. Dem need am sef. God save us Producers from some of the demons we cast. #GTFOH.”

“I’m not insulting anyone. I just feel that ‘deliverance’ issues are personal. Not with cameras and klieg lights. De demon na star?#GTFOH. I know I am treading dangerous grounds here esp when it comes to spiritual stuff and celebs but I have a right to comment since it’s public. My moonlighting as a critic makes analytical cynicism a part of my job. We are afraid too much of speaking our minds#GTFOH…I do think though that Jim was brave to go for deliverance. It is a first step to a total recovery. I wish him well. Honestly, I do.

“For those sending me hateful tweets over this deliverance issue, you know the way to the church for yours. I’m unfazed.My tweets are my personal opinions on a topic, if you twist them or it offends you, na you sabi. No skin off my nose.Like I said, Jim has my best wishes. Good actor, he is. We go through a mid-life crisis one time or the other. Genuine God discovery helps.”

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Wizkid And Phyno songs Deserved To Be Banned-Charles Novia Defends NBC Ban Action

Charles Novia came out to defend NBC's action on the ban of wizkid and phyno's song.

In Today’s entertainment sector, sex is king. The more sex the music videos suggest, the better for the artistes, music video directors and even the stations.

I have repeatedly screamed at various interactive music fora that these days, when watching the Nigerian television channels either on terrestrial or satellite bouquets, one cannot differentiate between the lewd music videos and soft porn!

It is also alarming and befuddling that many of the musical acts getting brand endorsements here and there are nothing to write home about when it comes to the lyrical content of their songs or the moral appropriateness of their music videos!

These young turks sing blatantly about sex without giving a hoot about the most important audience of all; the children.

If they don’t know it, they should be told that children are quite impressionable and what goes into a child’s mind visually can either distort that child’s moral progression or improve on the child’s human development as time goes on.

But do SOME of these repressed reprobates in the music sector care? Not in the least! The more raunchy the music videos are, the better for the rascals.

Just to buttress my point, have you guys seen the way most Nigerian kids dance to some of these songs at children’s parties? It’s all about winding their waist and even twerking much to either the amusement or amazement of their parents.

Yes, thanks to these accursed music videos, we are breeding a new generation of morally bankrupt youths who just need a little prod in their subconscious minds to become the future terrors of the New Republic of Sexual Nigeria! Mark my words.

And I won’t lay the blame on the artistes alone. The radio and television stations which fight over themselves to broadcast those songs and videos are as guilty in this regard. Perhaps too, the music video directors who come up with such concepts.

The NBC too is as hypocritical with these bans as it is sometimes inept. I would suggest a total overhaul of their monitoring unit, if my opinion is asked. I mean, why would they wait for months after such songs must have gained heavy rotation on radio and television before they use their hammer? What kind of crass dereliction of duty is that?

The relatively new Director-General of the NBC, Mr Emeka Mba, is well known to me. He just assumed duty a few weeks ago and I believe he should make it his duty to clean up the airwaves. And please, no double standards!

There are worse American and even African music videos and audio tracks ravaging our airwaves which the

NBC don’t know jack about!

Some radio On Air Personalities take delight in playing some lewd songs with the ‘F’ word unbleeped at times.

A few months back, I was driving in the same car with a Reverend Gentleman and we had one of thoseFM stations on the car radio that afternoon. Akon’s song with the chorus ‘ I wanna f**k you…f**k you out on the floor…’assaulted our ears. On radio? I had to join the shocked Reverend Father in making the sign of the cross even though I had switched to Pentecostalism years ago! Such was the shock.

We all have witnessed how Wizkid slyly came into the scene a few years ago. I use the word ‘slyly’ because his first single ‘Holla at your boy’ was a neat teen-pop track which was family friendly and won him a huge fan base across continents.

Having achieved his aim, his next couple of singles introduced the lyrical direction of his debut album. ‘Tease me’ was a daring post-pubescent song which extolled his plea for sexual freedom and also a blatant praise of his mojo. ‘Na me be the bad guys’ he crows.

The accompanying video to that track was as suggestively lewd with pole-dancing girls doing some randy stuff. The clean boy image of Wizkid took a back seat and thereon his handlers and producers tried to sell him as a post-teen sex symbol.

So, it was no surprise to the discerning ones amongst us when his new singles were laced with overtly raunchy suggestivism. Let us examine the lyrics of the banned single in question; ‘Back to the matter, open and close, touch your toes, oya baby..,’. Chai! May your children grow up in the ways of the Lord. I have nothing against the hard working Wizkid, in case some puerile minds begin to think in their usual template that ‘what’s Novia’s own?’ Or ‘He’s just jealous of Wizkid’s success’ which is a usual conclusion when critiques like these meant to correct an anomaly raise some dust.

I actually enjoy most of the young man’s clean songs as much as I abhor his lewd ones. This is basically a call to him and others of his ilk to go inwards and re-engineer their lyrics. Better still as Gbemi Olateru Olagbegi of Beat FM tweeted, they should go the extra mile in producing clean radio edit versions of some of their songs.

Phyno is one interesting rap artiste I have been studying. He joins the league of rappers who rap in native lingo, following the footsteps of his artistic heralders, 2Shotz and Dat NIGGA Raw.

Phyno understands the essence of showmanship and personal branding, what with his unique Mohawk hairstyle and his style of dressing.

I don’t understand Igbo very well but I have listened to the banned song ‘Man of the Year’ for controversial or lewd lyrics as well as his other songs. Here are some words I found:

Okereke okereke.. My guys no abaleke… N’ekperem ekpere Sika m fepu ka chekeleke Si mu kuwa k’elekera Na ezem k’ekelebe Ebughim otu mana m ga n’egbu ha ebelebe …something wey don enter don enter but if e nor gree enter, make you rub vaseline’

Please someone explain a bit to me about the meaning of some of his suggestivism in those words? I think that is why the NBC banned the song.

In any case, Phyno is one act to watch. I don’t really rate him as a fantastic emcee but he’s commercial and would go far…somehow.

There are some Nigeria music videos which I would personally recommend for non-broadcast and I hope the NBC takes note somehow. This recommendation is without fear or favour and I must state too that it does not in anyway detract from the amazing talents of the artistes who I give props to for raising the bar in their chosen field.

However, while they are raising the bar, I and millions of concerned parents are raising our kids so please ‘make una nor spoil my blues with una razz ragga’. Shikena.

Wande Coal’s ‘KICK’ video should be banned off the national television space. Seriously, have you seen the ladies shaking their bums in that video?

For the pious and piety men reading this, I would advise you not to bother checking it out. Especially if you just came out of a spiritual fasting regimen like I had just done when I saw the video. Needless to say I resumed my fasting with more vigour after that.

If Timaya’s ‘shake your bum bum’ video was sexually provocative, Coal’s ‘Kick’ video gave a double provocation with two bum-shakers.

Olamide is a great musical act who is making waves at present. We all have watched his gradual ascent for the past couple of years and he has succeeded in filling a void left open by the late Dagrin. I have my reservations about his latest video ‘Durosoke’ but that is not the video I’m recommending for non-broadcast. There’s one he calls ‘Stupid love’ which I believe promotes alcoholic inebriation; which I presume to be against the broadcasting rules.

In the video, Olamide in almost every cut is seen clutching a green bottle suggestively filled with either rum or brandy or some strong coloured spirits. He takes deliberate swigs from the bottle and even chants at a point in the song about feeling ‘high’.

This video gets massive airplay on national stations. I think it should be yanked off.

Oh yes, some may argue that there’s no proof that the contents in that bottle is alcohol. Balderdash! Why don’t such people argue that the ‘yanshes’ they see in some of the music videos I mentioned above are harmless to the psyche of the children? And not only children too, come to think of it!

There are quite a few more I could recommend but why would I do the NBC’s job for them? Isn’t that one of their functions as a Commission? It is high time we cleaned up the airwaves. Let those who wish to listen to lewd songs or watch raunchy music videos do so on other media. It is a sin the way we corrupt the minds of our children in the name of artistic license.

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MAJEK FASHEK FIGHTS MOVIE MAKER,CHARLES NOVIA

The latest gist making the rounds in the Nigerian entertainment industry is that rainmaker,Majek Fashek and his manager of about 4 years,Charles Novia of who owns November Record label are currently having serious issues bordering on the artiste’s business mismanagement which is being handled by Charles Novia.

Information gathered has it that Majek is embittered with his Manager,Charles Novia that with all the hard work he puts in,commensurate financial returns are not forth coming.

However,it could be recalled that Majek was off the music scene for a while before the duo met and entered into a contractual agreement of managing Majek.

The relationship as it looked,indeed turned out to be a very successful venture then from an artistic and commercial point of view,as Majek’s music surprisingly caught on effortlessly with the hip hop incensed youths.

The only minus in the whole thing was that Novia kept promising that Majek will return to the country by November of the year he released his album,to stage concerts across the country and even went ahead to further wet the fans ‘ appetite by releasing a video compilation of live material of the singer from the US)-“ a promise he never fulfilled.

And according to Majek,no credible excuse or even an apology was given by Novia for that.It would appear that a lot of water has passed under the bridge as my people would say,since then”.

Majek Fashek has been in Nigeria.

For several months now,but from available reports,not at the instance of November Records(Novia’s company). more significantly, from the moment he landed in Nigeria,according to press reports,Majek has been dissociating himself from the planned film on his life by Novia.

Novia has also consistently responded by affirming that all is well between the 2 and that the film will go on as planned until now.

Though despite his weaknesses,Majek has been one of the most respected Nigerian artiste.

Born in Benin City,Nigeria to an Edo mother and a Yoruba father.

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