I Never Introduced My Teenage Daughter To Alcohol – Laide Bakare

Nollywood actress Laide Bakare has reacted to the intense dragging she is currently receiving online. This is coming after the moviestar said that she introduced her 17-year-old daughter to clubbing.

Laide had said that she was the one who gave her daughter her first club experience, and she even let her have a taste of alcohol in preparation for adulthood.

However, she later clarified that she didn’t introduce her daughter to alcohol, only the club environment, as a way to give her a certain level of exposure ahead of the future.

Reacting to the backlash that trailed her comment, Laide defended her actions on Instagram, stressing that her words were simply misunderstood.

According to her, she only took her daughter to the club for the first time to celebrate her birthday, and her intention was never to encourage underage drinking or clubbing.

She concluded by saying that preparing her daughter for what lies ahead in the future is not a bad thing.

“Let me mention clearly here that I never said I introduced my daughter, @simlineboss, to alcohol. I only stated that she entered a club with me for the very first time in her life at her birthday afterparty. How is that bad naw?

No please, I didn’t do alcohol with @simlineboss, only club, and it’s just to give her a bit of exposure towards the future. I’m not as bad as you think,” she wrote.

WOW.

Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in The New York Times. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there is no clear or agreed-upon definition for the term, which has made it a subject to several controversies.

The origin of the term “Nollywood” remains unclear; Jonathan Haynes traced the earliest usage of the word to a 2002 article by Matt Steinglass in the New York Times, where it was used to describe Nigerian cinema.

Charles Igwe noted that Norimitsu Onishi also used the name in a September 2002 article he wrote for the New York Times. The term continues to be used in the media to refer to the Nigerian film industry, with its definition later assumed to be a portmanteau of the words “Nigeria” and “Hollywood”, the American major film hub.

Film-making in Nigeria is divided largely along regional, and marginally ethnic and religious lines. Thus, there are distinct film industries – each seeking to portray the concern of the particular section and ethnicity it represents. However, there is the English-language film industry which is a melting pot for filmmaking and filmmakers from most of the regional industries.