“Stop Making Contents With Allwell Ademola’s Death” – Laide Bakare Warns Colleagues

Nollywood actress Laide Bakare has criticised fans and colleagues for being insensitive on social media following the death of her colleague, Allwell Ademola. She recently had her say via her Instagram page, and fans have been reacting.

According to her, watching her colleagues create content with Allwell‘s death has been very sad, and the culprits should remember that God is watching everyone of us.

Laide added that some of the friends of the deceased have been shamelessly collecting gifts on TikTok since she passed.

Her words, “The way fans and colleagues are creating contents with the passing of our dear sister is really sad 😔. Anyway God is watching everyone. Rest well All well. Still in shock, some of her very close pals even still open Tictock App yesterday Doing Tap Tap busy playing games and collecting Gifts 🎁! Haaaaa!!! Aiye le ooo!

If you know them, Tag them, ko da o 🥲.”

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.