Faking It Till You Make It In Nigeria...

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''This is about the day I experienced the worst fakeness of a Nigerian entertainer.

He is a fast rising Nigerian RnB singer with some delicious love songs. To some ladies, he is a perfect gentlemen🙆.

The TV show(shoot) was meant to capture the daily life of the musical artist and bros went to outlandish length to color his day. From a fake car owner; which unfortunately broke down as soon as we filmed the opening sequence. Baba insisted we must halt the shoot until "his" SUV is fixed but that can't happen. The show must continue.

We drove him in our production bus to Artisan Beach where another fake fashion photo shoot which barely lasted 10 minutes, took place.

To calm our nerves, bros ordered drinks as we wait for "his SUV".
Finally, SUV was fixed and we continued with the shoot. Artist kept whispering to me "did you capture the car well, please make sure you filmed the car well" lol

We drove to Cubana(in VI) for a supposed meeting. We filmed all the way to the club and as we were about entering a certain office, bros said "actually, dem nor go allow cameras into the meeting" huh!

"How about we film the opening three minutes, at least make we capture you exchanging pleasantries with the people you are meeting?" I quietly begged.
"I tell you, dem no go gree. They are Americans from a world famous record label" artist pressed on.

Okay, we gave up and he went while we waited in the reception. In less than three minutes, baba re-emerged, meeting is over? Wathefeck!

We continued filming....

Next stop, his record label office somewhere in VI, were a supposed fan is to present him a huge painting. We got there, filmed the scene but that same painting was in his house when we got there earlier on, hmmmmm!
At this point I was fed up and told my camera guys to just film whatever and anyhow they like it, I already knew what I was going to do in the office

Next stop; Fahrenheit, opp. Eko hotels for a dinner with the Fan of The Week.



We arrived the lush hotel, oyibo full everywhere and the place looked really exotic as our artist's latest song was playing, softly everywhere. As soon as our cameras started rolling and artist walked into the large dinning, one of the hotel's female staff, (damn! She looked too stunning to be a waitress) rushed our artist. She was so star-struck and they started singing and vibing to the artist's song which was playing via the hotel's sound system. She was almost in tears and all over him before security escorted her away...

While the dinner was on, I stepped out of the hotel to "free my head". It was already past 10PM and all my crew were exhausted.
As I stood at the Hotel's gate, I saw the stunning "waitress" hurrying out in a smart outfit as an Uber pulled over.


"Closed already?" I threw at her playfully.

"Yea, yea" she hollered back. No smiles as she hoped into the car. Zoomed off.
Of cause she was part of the script. Asked/paid to come play the Star-struck Waitress and she was done with her beat. Lol.

It was getting late and I needed to go wrap-up the shoot. As I re-entered the car park where our location bus was parked, I heard the driver of the SUV ranting "See time, 10 don pass. No be the agreement be this o. Una tell me say kpata kpata, 6PM una go finish. Una go add money, na over time be this o"
“Boss, I hope there is no problem?” Curious, I threw at the artist manager.



"Nothing baba, na one ish we dey try sort" he stylishly nudged the driver away from me. The driver later told me he hasn't eaten since morning and his company was paid 40k for the artist ro hire the SUV for a day job. Lmao!

I went into the restaurant where the camera guys were still filming, my crew were all damn tired already. Then suddenly.... "R.....H.....i" another female fan screamed, running to hug the artist.

"Cut! cut!!" I called out.
"Bros, wetin happen?" artist stood, flabbergasted.

"Sir, we are out of batteries" My head cameraman, smartly offered.
Artist was so stunned and pissed, perhaps; they had more "gripping" scenes coming. The manager and his team tried to talk us into "charging" and continuing but my camera guys "did not bring chargers" lol.

Next day, we got to the office, watched the rushes and took a decision immediately.
Two weeks later, artist no allow person phone rest, "baba, when the show dey air nau?" I kept telling him "soon" until I downed tools.

Stay true to yourself. Nobody expects more from you and you don't owe anybody a flashy lifestyle. Live within your means and stop faking it till you make it; that's an extra unnecessary pressure on yourself''.


By John Attah.

ATTAH JOHN EDEH is a former Director at HipTV. A Scriptwriter and Head of Production, Mark Angel Comedy Campus Tour.

*Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahha they are many like this and post it on the gram for their star struck arranged followers..Nothing on the social media excites me cos it is not what it is!!!