Trolls Calling My Sick Mother Ugly Is Hurtful – Zic Saloma

Popular skitmaker and Nollywood actor Zic Saloma has blasted online bullies who keep making derogatory remarks about his mother. He recently described the comments from the trolls as “hurtful,” and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, the content creator revealed that he cannot comprehend how people can be callous enough to mock a woman who is brave enough to battle a terminal illness.

Zic further blasted the moral decay in Nigeria, stressing that the insensitive responses reflect how terrible our society has become.

His words, “It’s heartbreaking that someone battling for her life is still being ridiculed.

I saw some comments saying my mum’s nose is big, asking me, ‘Why you no do surgery for her?’ People were saying my mother is ugly. You’re saying this about a woman who is over 70 years old, fighting a terminal illness like cancer. I wish most of you saying all these negative things about my mum will get to 70 years and look as good as she does.

Trust me, comments do not get to me. I knew this generation was bad, but I did not know this generation was finished. That is why sometimes I say we deserve what we get in this country.

I saw the sweet comments and I appreciate them, but the negative comments from young adults, even people abroad, were higher than you can imagine.

People who reason like this, how can they vote for a good government? How can there not be tribalism? How can there not be religious sentiments?”

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.