Funke Akindele gave me ₦190,000 – Ijoba Lande

“Funke Akindele gave me ₦190,000 not ₦90,000. Please help me to beg Aunty Funke, I don’t want to go to jail. I didn’t mean to defame her” – Ijoba Lande

In contrary to the what was initially trending on twitter.

Funke Akindele is trending because, some people on Twitter are dragging her for underpaying actors. In a new video, Skitmaker Ijoba Lande revealed that he once spent a month on set with Funke for a production, and in the end, she paid him 90k. According to him, he was excited that a star like Funke Akindele acknowledged and invited him for a feature. He has debunked his first video in the new one he did above saying he said he was paid ₦190,000 but not 90,000 Naira. ₦190,000, and the minimum wage in 2017 was 17,000 Naira.

So, he saw it as an opportunity for networking. When he got there, he started working. So he finished it. Now, he’s not blaming anyone. He’s using it to advise upcoming talents to always state their pricing regardless of who is inviting them, because no one cares, they just want to use them to make money. Ijoba Lande also admitted that, if he had learned, he would have known what to do, instead of acting off emotions.

The movie Lande is talking about, it was the series “My Siblings and I”. He acted as a gateman and appeared only about 4-8x in 2017.

Now, Nigerians are in a split. Some are saying Lande is lying, and it’s it’s his fault for not negotiating, and 90k in 2017 isn’t bad, because it was well above minimum wage.