Lateef Adedimeji Must Stop Letting Everyone Carry His Triplets – Usman Ashafe

Nollywood actor Lateef Adedimeji has reacted to a strong warning from a man over his triplets. A Twitter user, identified as Usman Ashafe, recently advised him to stop allowing people to carry his babies.

Usman wrote, “Somebody should quickly advise Lateef and Bimpe to stop allowing people to carry their babies, please

I know everyone is happy for them, and everyone wants to visit, but different hands carrying them is quite worrying, please

It’s not until you carry them that we know you also visit

They are not museum items that you touch to feel anyhow

They are babies still adapting to the new world; they are fragile.

And the truth is, a lot of you are carrying bacteria, fungi, algae, protozoa and even viruses in your hands

Only God knows what and where some of you have inserted your hands before you get there

Don’t use soapy hands to carry new babies, please

If you can not look and admire them in their baby cot, then get out

This is not a jab at Jide and Juliana, please, it’s generally for everyone that’ll be visiting.”

Responding to him, Lateef appreciated his words and let him know he had taken his advice.

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.