Topmost Controversial Nigerian Stars On Parade

In a very competitive razzmatazz industry in Nigeria, the saying that ‘survival is for the fittest’ comes to play among the ‘jungle’ inhabitants. This may have brought about some stakeholders in the game to device controversies as a tactics in staying up in the game. The Nigerian showbiz world has seen many ‘actors’ come on stage just once and gone into oblivion. Some have remained on top not because they keep bringing out new things like songs for the musicians and movies for the actors, but have remained in the news because of one negative story written about them or the other. Charly Boy is one name that comes to mind in the industry in the scenario just described above while Cossy Orjiakor comes to mind in the motion pictures world. In this write up, we are taking a look at some of the most controversial Nigerian celebrities in the game.

Tonto Dikeh Another controversial celebrity is Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh. Since her emergence into the make-believe world in 2006 after her participation in The Next Movie Star competition where she was a runner-up, Tonto has remained in the news. While at the completion, she was like a young lady that would never like to be in the news for the wrong reasons. But that has faded away. If she is not attacking a colleague today, she is using censored words on her fans tomorrow. In her own case, she is doing well in her acting career. The only thing those controversies may have done to her would be sponsorship deals not coming her way as expected. Also is the fact that she doesn’t get to win awards as one would have expected with her popularity. Her recent try of music, according to her, was to create controversies, which she rightly achieved

Charly Boy Doing this kind of story without Charly Boy’s name in it clearly shows some brown envelopes must have exchanged hands to exclude him from the list. Or better still, maybe he may have been blacklisted by the media house doing such story. Area Fada, as he is fondly called, has successfully stayed in the news regularly by creating controversial issues for himself. His different media stunts have turned out to have yielded results. His present name change to Linda’ has become another source of news story for the media to feast on. One thing about Charly Boy is that he can create a storm from a tea cup. Charly Boy has successfully replaced his absence from the music scene with self generated controversial issues.