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Funke Akindele Snubs Toyin Abraham At Movie Premiere · DidiLawren

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  Hello and welcome back to the episode of Bantu Lorencia.
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  How are you all doing up? You're doing great.
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  For today's episode, I want to talk about the viral clip that
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  has been circulating on social media since yesterday.
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  Now, Yeah, Bojo premiered her movie, I think the return of
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  Arrenzo. It was star-studded.
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  We had Funka, Kindle, Messi, Ayubi, AO Vasavianti, Toya
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  Yumaku. A whole lot of movie producers
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  and actors were there to grace the occasion.
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  Now the clip that went viral, let me just play that clip
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  before we get into it. Please, let's not prove that
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  right. We've fought over the years to
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  build our image, to do amazing movies, to do quality work.
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  I beg of you, let's not give them the power to say we are
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  disorganised over to you. Nice.
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  Please, let's not prove that right.
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  We've fought over the years to build our image, to do amazing
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  movies, to do quality work. I beg of you, let's not give
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  them the power to say we are disorganised.
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  Over to you. Now from this clip we can see
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  that Auntie Tony Aimaku or Tony Abraham is trying to greet Funky
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  Kindle and Funky looked straight up ignored her.
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  She even called her to say you know Auntie Funky.
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  She tapped on the shoulder and Funky Kindle just ignored her.
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  Now people said she didn't like it's.
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  It's uncalled for. It's an event with cameras.
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  Even if you have issues with this person, why don't you just
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  be cordial? You were invited.
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  You can be cordial. You can just even say hi.
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  And now for some of you who don't know what's going on.
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  Fuka Kindlely had been accused of dominating the cinemas.
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  According to them, movie producers who included Kunia Fly
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  on Toya Imaku, we have a whole lot of them who produced movies
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  last year to be shown in cinemas during the Christmas period,
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  even in Nedu. And then according to them,
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  Funky Akindale pays cinematic or cinema operators to only show
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  her movies during the best, you know, peak hours where people
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  are going to the cinemas. So other people's movies are put
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  maybe 11 PM, 12 AM, you know, just odd hours, like 9:00 AM in
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  the morning. Those are the slots that have
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  been given to other people, allegedly.
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  So Kula Felaya came out and made a video.
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  He talked about it. A whole lot of people talked
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  about it and then it became, you know, Funke Akindale, everybody
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  was coming after her. There's another guy that was
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  accusing Funke and allegedly Funke, according to what people
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  said, she's she's not in control of the cinemas, cinema owners
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  control which movies, the the, the air or the timetable of the
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  movies. But people said that Funke has a
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  very big influence on movies that get shown because you know,
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  Funke she's hits 1 billion. She's made 1 billion naira
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  opening. So everybody's now trying to
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  match Funke or get to Funke's level.
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  And then people said, I'm Funke is trying to monopolise the
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  whole thing to make sure that she's she remains, she dominates
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  the market so that nobody would be like, oh, Funke hit 1
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  billion, I hit 1 billion. So according to what people are
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  saying, this is what Funke a kindle is doing.
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  Now the next issue was that Funke a Kindle, she dances to
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  promote her movie. I mean, Funke she's she's very
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  playful, she's very jovial. So so promoting her movies, she
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  always dance to get her cast, the actors to do some dance and
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  just make it lively, playful. A whole lot of people said they
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  don't have the strength to be dancing.
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  That why we think I'd be dancing to promote movies and because of
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  those dance or those little clips that she post get it goes
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  viral. It goes viral and that makes
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  people want to go watch our movies.
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  And according to people based on those commercials or based on
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  those viral clips, it gets to the grassroots and then people
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  want to go see those movies. Now it's also affect the the
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  demand. And then the cinema operators
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  wouldn't have to accommodate those demand by making sure that
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  people are able to watch our movies based on the the demand
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  and availability. So Cooler Flyer came out and
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  said he was at an event. He was saying that oh, people
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  should, he would advise people to copy Funka Kindle style
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  because you know, he is old, he cannot be dancing to promote
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  movies, but he would advise the younger people to do what Funka
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  Kindle is doing. That went viral.
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  People said everybody's coming after Funky Akindele.
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  Why is everybody, if you want to dance to promote your movie,
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  dance and promote your movie. Why must it be funky?
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  Because she's at the top. Everybody, allegedly,
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  everybody's trying to pull her down.
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  So this has been going on even before then.
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  According to sources, Funky Akindele and Toyi Abraham,
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  they've been at loggerheads because according to the story,
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  any movie that Funky makes, toy Abraham will try to make
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  something similar. You know, it's just like Samsung
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  and the Apple. Any movie that she makes, toy
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  Abraham tries to make something similar.
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  And then, you know, ride on, you know, that popularity.
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  And they said Funke, that gets on Funke's nerves.
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  So Funke has been avoiding Toy Abraham for a very long time.
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  There was an interview where they asked them Twin that what
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  is the problem between yourself and Funky and Kinley and why is
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  it that the two of you have never come together to produce a
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  movie or to act you? You guys are big.
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  So what exactly is the colour of your problem?
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  Now this is the reply that Twin Abraham gave.
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  Pondering in my head Funky A lot of people see Funky Oh you can
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  do this kind of movie for the Ghost and the towel and we're
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  beginning to wonder why is Funky not casted at all in maybe
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  Alaqada or. Ghost and.
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  The towel And then they started bringing up, oh, maybe there is
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  a beef between 20 and Funky. Just can you throw more lights?
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  Actually, she's my she's, she's my senior colleague and she's
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  someone I respect a lot. So I don't know what people are
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  talking about. Trust me.
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  You know, a lot of times like, and she's one of even the few I
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  look up to. But you know, sometimes people
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  don't understand that we are colleagues, not family.
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  So you cannot be talking to all your colleagues.
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  We talk, we follow each other. If I see I will need that
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  function, OK. But the point is a lot of people
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  do not understand that we just is like we are working in the
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  same. So you don't have to be my
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  friend. Do you understand when I see I
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  should so much, don't you? Good afternoon.
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  So forget it. Trust me.
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  Don't forget social media. Forget social media.
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  Trust me. My close friends, a lot of
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  people do not even know that me and Messi, we are very close.
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  They got you know, because she was on my set.
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  A lot of people do not know that me and me and me and AY and
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  maybe we are like this. I'm going to tell you a secret
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  today I borrow got married to my.
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  Niece. Wow, yes.
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  Exclusive yes, you can see yes. Exclusive that's.
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  It now this was the video that funky Kindle allegedly saw and
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  was like, oh, so we're not friends.
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  And then when she came to greet him or to greet funky Kindle,
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  she snubbed Tony Abraham. She literally like it's, it's, I
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  mean, it's not that deep. It's actually not that deep.
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  A lot of people have complained about Funky kindling, the way
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  she handles issues, especially in the industry.
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  A lot of people people have fallen out with Funky.
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  A lot of people have called her out based on how she pays
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  people. There were videos or recordings
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  when Funky and her ex-husband Bello, what's that his name?
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  Bello JJC. So when her and JJC broke up,
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  JJC son released audios of where Funke was screaming at her
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  staff. She was just screaming at them.
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  And he said that that is Funke on a daily, that that is how she
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  is. People that work for her are
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  just there to earn money. That's not because they like
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  her, it's because she's very creative and she knows how to
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  make money. So people are people who are
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  associated with her are not just there because they they are
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  friends with her or they like her or they like her
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  personality. They are just there to earn
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  money. This is coming from somebody, a
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  family, GG CS son who had lived this phone care, who had
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  recorded phone care. Now, in my opinion, I think is
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  this a witch hunt? Probably because you can poke
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  and poke and poke at somebody and one day they're going to
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  react. Maybe Funke is reacting to what
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  people are seeing. People are poking at her.
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  There were so many videos of Funke Edo on stage and then she
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  was standing next to Messiah eBay and the way Messi was just
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  eyeing her up and down, the way Messi was, you know, sizing her
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  up and down, you could tell that there were tensions between
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  Messi and Funke. There are tensions between Funke
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  and Toy. Abraham Toy came out and said
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  she she, she said she has unfollowed Funke kindly.
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  So this is just getting messy and messy and messy since
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  movies, since Yoruba people, Yoruba movie industry, the
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  Yoruba Hollywood started showing movies on cinemas.
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  Nobody has rested. It has been from one drama to
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  the other people that I I think for me, people should just and I
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  think it's just because it's just about competition because
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  according to Culias fly on the movie industry, like if you're
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  showing movies on cinema, you want to make money.
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  You have to because he said the reason why he's not showing his
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  movies on cinema is because the marketing takes.
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  You can make 1 billion and your gain is probably 10 million
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  Naira. He said that it doesn't make any
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  sense to him because all those dances, you have to pay
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  influencers. You have to do this, you have to
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  do that. He said he he he he is not going
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  to play that game. So I think the, the, the bottom
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  line here is it's all about what's, you know, the, the
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  facade. I, I am a billion dollar or a
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  billion naira box office queen, which funkier Kindle currently
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  dominates. Is she making money?
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  We don't know. According to Uncle Kulia flyer,
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  he said it's just she can make 10 billion or 1 billion and her
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  game is going to be 1010 million naira.
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  Is it worth it? Is is 10 million worth fighting
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  everybody? It's 10 million worth having
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  enemies here and there. The movie industry, yes, I
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  understand it's showbiz. You have to show before the
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  business comes. But some people are on YouTube
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  making mad money. We have Ruth Kadiri.
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  Ruth Kadiri's YouTube channel is making money.
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  We have Omanio Bully. Omanio Bully's channel is is
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  racking serious amount of money. So the crease about cinema
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  understand that some people want to put their name out there,
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  make themselves known so they want to go the cinema route.
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  In Needo tried in need to have a YouTube has a YouTube channel.
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  For some reason she decided to put a movie on cinema and she
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  said she took a whole lot of investors invested in that movie
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  and she is yet to even break even.
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  And the movies, you know, the movie, they had problems.
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  She said that the title was a very dirty Christmas.
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  Khan was fighting. However, the title cinemas were
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  not posting, were not giving her slots to to put to for people to
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  watch the movie. So it's, it's a whole mess.
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  It's a whole mess. And I think maybe Funke is
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  innocent. Maybe she is just a very good
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  business woman who people you know how you make money and
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  people are calling yo she blood money, blood money.
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  Maybe she's just successful. She has figured it out.
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  She's doing her thing and it is working for her.
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  And people who are yet to figure her success, you know, model out
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  at blaming her for not being. It's just like bad Workman
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  quarrelling with their tools. What do you think?
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  Do you think that Funke, I mean, we saw her in four key ignoring
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  Toya Imaku. Is there truth to what people
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  are saying about Funke kindly, or do you think that she's had
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  enough and she's like, listen, you say we're not friends, then
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  keep the same energy when you see me.
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  So is is that the problem or do you think that funky, funky.
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  There's some scones, scones in our head.
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  Let me know what you think. Thank you very much for watching
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