Popular Nollywood producer and actor, Segun Ogungbe, has cleared the air regarding the rumour surrounding his marital life. He recently had a say as a guest on a TV programme, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, even though people have always said that his wife, Tinuke and his babymama, Wunmi Ajiboye, were friends, the truth is that the two women were never close from the onset.
Ogungbe added that it was a close admirer who started the rumour after finding out that he impregnated someone outside of wedlock.
His words, “My wife and my babymama were never friends. The rumour of them being friends was a lie that was generated from social media.
Someone who admired me and wanted me to marry her did it. She had always been on my neck to marry her, but I said I would never get married to more than one wife.
I got someone else pregnant outside of wedlock, and when she heard, she got really pissed because she often assisted me financially when I had movie projects to do.
She got pissed and went online to say that my wife and baby mama were friends, and blogs picked it up from there. It’s not true.”
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.
Support InfoStride News' Credible Journalism: Only credible journalism can guarantee a fair, accountable and transparent society, including democracy and government. It involves a lot of efforts and money. We need your support. Click here to Donate