Nigerians Beg Like Celebrities Do Not Have Responsibilities – Chinedu Ikedieze

Nollywood actor, Chinedu Ikedieze has come out to blast the alarming rate people slide into his DM to beg for money.

He recently had his say via his social media page, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, someone recently went as far as sending him a message asking for $35,000 while another jumped in his DM to request for $12,000, and such outlandish monetary requests are not even restricted to Nigerians alone.

Chinedu added that it is too much for him to cope with, and he cannot understand how people have turned his DM into a bank of industry.

His words, “This is getting out of hand. How can you people turn my DM to Bank of Industry?. If I open my DM is always ‘Oga please, please, please’ Jesus! It is too much. The way you guys beg it is like we do not have responsibilities. If I start to share the money like that it will finish.”

“Imagine somebody was begging me for $35, 000. That is how much in Naira? Approximately twenty something Million. Another one was asking me for $12, 000 that he wants to pen a shop. The problem is even that it is not just Nigerians.”

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.