January To Be Famous

January to be famous!

I decided to start with this because those whom we thought could lead us well are now gradually leading us astray just for fame. Fame has actually gotten into people's head that they do anything for publicity. At times, they arranged it, while some publicity happened naturally. But we all know the truth. I got so irritated when my own Bros, @donjazzy and @olamide opened the stage with their publicity stunt that did not last up to 48hours.

The next stunt was that of @dammyKrane and @wizkid. The previous had accused the later of stealing his song(s). It did not even last up to an indomitable advert before their reconciliation pictures started flying about the social media like Lagos mosquito. When we thought all was gone, our lost brother, @blackFace woke up from dream accusing @2face of stealing his intellectual property and one of @pSquare asked him a question that attracted my attention. He said, where did he keep his song that made @2face to go stealing it? And I was like, may be he must have kept his song on his Instagram page...lol. When you no longer have what it takes to keep your audience wow, the best option will be to start looking for who to accuse so as to bring back your lost name to the society that has forgotten about your existence. Imagine me waking up to see another of publicity stunt, but this time around, it was no longer in the music industry but movie industry. I was like, "so movie people too dey do these publicity stunt of a thing??" They said, what a man can do, a woman do do better. That was the case of Chioma Akpotha, @omakpotha, who came up to tag a group of persons like Omoli Oboli @omonioboli, Blessing Effiom Egbe @blessingegbe, Uche Jombo @uchejombo, and Ufoma McDermott @ufomaMcDermott with this inscription "sometimes, sisters ain't sisters" and that made the whole social media to be on fire. For goodness sake, what has that got to do with us? Why can't she pull a call through to these people if something was wrong with their relationships? Must she announced their dirty and nonsense issues to us on the social media? I just want to believe that, some persons are still backward technologically and need proper orientation on the use of social media. Some of these so called famous artist and actresses are just famous facially and blank upstairs. If you want to revive your dead publicity, there are more better ways to do it other than coming up with some unpleasant stunt just to bring your face to the notice of your run away fans. Please, let's embrace peace and unity amongst us.

Juachi Ochu

Activist, Critics