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Nigerian actress and singer, Tonto Dikeh has celebrated and prayed for her former husband, Olakunle Churchill, during their son King Andre’s 10th birthday party held in Abuja.

A video from the event showed the Nollywood actress offering heartfelt prayers for Churchill, speaking words of prosperity, protection and divine favour over him and his household.

“You are an amazing father, thank you so much.”

“Your businesses will flourish; whoever curses you shall be cursed. I love you with the love of God,” Dike declared in the video now circulating on social media.

Speaking further, the prominent nigerian actress disclosed that Andre has deep love and admiration for his father.

Dike, who extended her prayers to Churchill’s family, including his other children, asked for progress, success and protection from failure in all their endeavours.

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Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Adeoluwa Okusaga, popularly known as Saga, has revealed that he went to the reality show to launch his entertainment career.

He explained that he is an engineer and his colleagues pressured him to go for the reality show after noticing his skills.

“I went to Big Brother Naija to launch my career as an entertainer. I am an engineer.

“My colleagues at work begged me to go for Big Brother Nigeria, they said I will do well,” Saga said in a recent interview with Channels TV.

The reality star and actor noted that engineers are creative which make them to excel in the entertainment industry.

He stated, “As an engineer, you have to have a powerful imagination, understanding, and skill. A lot of artists like Davinci ended up as engineers because it’s a parallel.”

Saga participated in Season 6 of the Big Brother Naija reality show in 2021. He was evicted in the ninth week.

Following his eviction, he launched his acting career and has since starred in a dozen movies.

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Robert Duvall, who played the smooth mafia lawyer in “The Godfather” and stole the show with his depiction of a surfing-crazed colonel in “Apocalypse Now,” has died at the age of 95, his wife said Monday.

His death Sunday was confirmed by his wife Luciana Duvall.

“Yesterday we said goodbye to my beloved husband, cherished friend, and one of the greatest actors of our time. Bob passed away peacefully at home,” she wrote.

Blunt-talking, prolific and glitz-averse, Duvall won an Oscar for best actor and was nominated six other times. Over his six decades-long career, he shone in both lead and supporting roles, and eventually became a director.

“To the world, he was an Academy Award-winning actor, a director, a storyteller. To me, he was simply everything,” Luciana Duvall said. “His passion for his craft was matched only by his deep love for characters, a great meal, and holding court.”

Duvall won his Academy Award in 1983 for playing a washed-up country singer in “Tender Mercies.”

But his most memorable characters also included the soft-spoken, loyal mob consigliere Tom Hagen in the first two installments of “The Godfather” and the maniacal Lieutenant Colonel William Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic “Apocalypse Now.”

The latter, which earned Duvall an Oscar nomination and made him a bona fide star after years playing lesser roles, sees him utter what is now one of cinema’s most famous lines.

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” his war-loving character — bare chested, cocky and sporting a big black cowboy hat — muses as low-flying US warplanes bomb a beachfront tree line where he wants to go surfing.

That character was originally created to be even more over the top — his name was at first supposed to be Colonel Carnage — but Duvall had it toned down, demonstrating his meticulous approach to acting.

“I did my homework,” Duvall told veteran talk show host Larry King in 2015. “I did my research.”

Duvall was sort of a late bloomer in Hollywood — he was already 31 when he delivered his breakout performance as the mysterious recluse Boo Radley in the 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

He would go on to play myriad roles — a bullying corporate executive in “Network” (1976), a Marine officer who treats his family like soldiers in “The Great Santini” (1979), and then his star turn in “Tender Mercies.”

Duvall often said his favorite role, however, was one he played in a 1989 TV mini-series — the grizzled, wise-cracking Texas Ranger-turned-cowboy Augustus McCrae in “Lonesome Dove,” based on the novel by Larry McMurtry.

Film critic Elaine Mancini once described Duvall as “the most technically proficient, the most versatile, and the most convincing actor on the screen in the United States.”

AFP