ARIK AIR & STEPHANIE OKEREKE's WEDDING

Nollywood actress Stephanie Okereke and Husband Linus Idahosa

Just in case you missed it, Nollywood star Stephanie Okereke recently celebrated a beautiful and lavish wedding on the outskirts of Paris, France a few weeks ago.  To ensure that some of her colleagues made it to the wedding, she provided a chartered Arik flight to get them to Paris.

Since chartered planes run anywhere between 60 and 75 million Naira to Europe, some blogs reported that ARIK AIR and AIR FRANCE were supporting the Nollywood star via sponsorship of some sort. I don't mean to insult but some bloggers are as imbecilic as goats eating grass on the English countryside.  My first thought was who passed around this kind of lie for people to feed on?  It couldn't have been from the Bride and Groom who likely shelled out the millions needed to get their guests to the occasion, or was it the airlines themselves trying to reap where they did not not sow?  Whomever put the story out there, our ability to accept whatever is fed us in the name of information has become mind boggling to say the least.

Nollywood stars got free tickets from their colleague to attend her wedding

One of the toughest things in Nigeria is to get corporate sponsorship money especially when there are no white people involved. Nollywood event organizers especially those trying to host events in London are pretty much aware how tough it is to get sponsorship from Airlines to even get minimal guests to Movie premieres and award ceremonies not to talk of a wedding full of film people.  ARIK may support once in a while with some rebates of a few tickets but you will sweat till you drop.

So before you go prancing into Arik's offices asking for a chattered flight for your own event, and shouting "you supported Stephanie Okereke, why won't you support me?" Please bear in mind that  chances are Arik did no such thing. You better find money for your own event or make sure you support the wining political candidate in 2015!  Meanwhile, you can watch the wedding trailer for inspirations right here