By IFECHI OKOH

They are well known and celebrated as such. But one way or another, they are mostly enmeshed in controversies which they have contended with successfully over the years and still forging ahead impressively amidst surging challenges.

On Showcase in this edition, are:

JIM IYKE: Fans know him and also love the top actor for his undying natural love for America (Uncle Sam’s land). Anywhere you see him, you see America live in his Yankee accent, dress sense and disposition. He can’t do without these. Just as fans know him for his love for anything America, same goes for Iyke’s controversies. The most traumatic of all was his alleged 419 extortion deal which ran into millions that time and also made waves as a result, sending jitters to his legion of fans across Nigeria. The shock is still on till this moment. This perhaps explains why little is heard of Jim Iyke these days.

GENEVIEVE NNAJI: This Goddess of the tube who has traversed the length and breadth of Nollywood no doubt had more than she bargained for in controversies of all sorts. She was really in the eye of the storm when busy bodies linked her romantically with D.Banj and a very powerful and frontline Nigerian politician.

Her timely and dignifying silence actually saved the matter from escalating and crashing her too, psychologically. Genes as she is fondly addressed, continued with her silence which was actually golden no doubt and it saved her from further possible mess the controversy would have put her reputation to.

SHAN GEORGE: She actually ranks among the first three most controversial actresses in Nollywood. Hers is simply one month, one controversy and true to such calculation, she has kept pace with it till date. The latest rocking Nollywood is the sizzling gist of how she allegedly talked another top Nollywood actress, Halima Abubakar, into dating highly controversial Pentecostal pastor, Apostle Suleman Johnson, who has been denying seriously any relationship with the ailing Celebrity actress said to be on admission right now.

The disturbing thing about the matter is that George who is alleged to be at the heart of the controversy, has since distanced herself from the matter and feeling disturbingly unperturbed. Imagine!

SAIDI BALOGUN: Popularly called “Omo Alhaja” in Nollywood as a result of his movie with same title since 1993. Before then, the handsome guy whom many girls may have fallen head over heels as a result of his good looks and bewitching smiles was alleged to be in a sizzling romance with one pretty Adesiyan few years after dumping his legal wife, Fathia Balogun, of many years, now known as Fathia Williams. Balogun whose acting prowess can’t be easily compared has since been romantically linked with several Celebrated actresses in Nollywood.

INI EDO: The name which many associate with drop-dead beauty could also be linked with controversies in Nollywood, especially when they bother on sex scandals. Controversy tailed her wedding as a result of alleged snatching of celebrated footballer, Philip Ehiagwina, from society lady, called Ruth Okoro. She was even linked to a former South South Governor. Just recently, she was reported to have left a club on Victoria Island with one of these young and randy money-miss-road young man.

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