Social Media Has Made Some Nigerians Callous – Zack Orji

Popular Nollywood actor, Zack Orji has come out to debunk rumours of his death.

Recall that he recently travelled to the UK for medical evaluation after undergoing two brain surgeries

Reacting to the death rumors, Zack said that he does not know who originated that lie on social media, but he can confirm that the rumors are not true.

Orji added that it is a fact that social media has made people so reckless and callous to the point of spreading fake news just to grow their page.

His words, “I don’t know who originated that lie, I call it a lie from the pit of hell that…well not myself, they had passed away.

I saw it and I started receiving all kinds of calls, even calls from people I hadn’t heard from for years, most of them were just concerned, they wanted to find out if it was true and all of that.

I can only say that sometimes social media has made people to be so reckless and callous to the point of spreading fake news just to grow their page.”

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.