I never JAM money….

….Or have met anyone who has by the sounds of things.
Being around the entertainment world I always hear unwritten money stories of excesses on part of super wealthy private individuals (or politicians) trying to curry favour with our new wave of young cool celebrities. I would hazard to guess that 50% of the monetization of entertainment in Nigeria is via these latent means. My wife is a well known Nollywood actress and introduced me to the term or common practice known as ‘thank you for coming’ (a gift from the event patron — basically an envelope stuffed with cash). Most celebrities won’t bother to turn up to an event for a rich person without some implicit understanding they will be ’thanked for coming’.
I always wondered who was on the other side of those envelopes and why on earth they would blow this mad money on celebrities. On vanity. In fact this isn’t uncommon to Nigeria. It is always widely reported of hedge fund, Arab princes or Russian oligarchs calling in global sta...