Promotional Gifts Are an Excellent Way to Say Thank You to Employees and Customers

It is always nice to know that something you have done has been recognised and appreciated by your employer
or other key people in your industry. It makes people feel good about themselves while demonstrating that their hard work is valued by their fellow work colleagues and friends. Business gifts are an excellent way of showing people that they really have made a difference in their office or industry. There are many different types of business gifts available in different price brackets. The gifts you choose depend on why you are giving the gift and to whom.

Assuming that the idea of giving gifts to your industry colleagues and/or employees is new to you, let’s look at a few reasons why one might choose to give a business gift in the first place. Business gifts could be used to thank a retiring employee for her years of valued service. Then again, they could just as easily be used to show an new employee that you are impressed with how quickly he has picked things up in his first week on the job. Gifts could be used to thank a key distributor for promoting and selling your products better than any other distributor. They could even be used to demonstrate to your supplier that you are very happy with their service and like doing business with them. In short, it is nice to give a gift whenever you feel that someone has excelled themselves for the benefit of others.

There are many business gifts on the higher end which though expensive will always be very much appreciated. Your retiring superior employee or you star salesman deserves no less than the best! You may wish to consider gifts such as engraved crystal decanter sets or an engraved gold Cross pen or stylish watch for such important people. These gifts may be expensive but unlike cheaper promotional gifts, they can usually be purchased in very small quantities. One thing is certain, you will enjoy giving a gift like these just as much as your chosen VIP will love receiving it.

Your new distributor or employee will not expect such lavish gifts as they have not yet completely proven themselves. Still it is always nice to receive recognition for your hard work so why not consider less expensive gifts for them. Watch the smile come to their face when you present them with a metal clock engraved with your logo or a heavy glass paperweight engraved with your company details and their accomplishment. It is important to remember that it is not always the price of the gift that matters but the fact that you are presenting them with a gift in the first place. Your gesture will be very much appreciated and cherished.

You may have a large group of employees that you would like to thank for their hard work. Expensive or even mid-range gifts may not be an option for large groups of people due to your budget. That should not stop you from letting them know that you are very happy with their dedication and work. There are a large range of gifts that are available such as inexpensive T-shirts, pens, coffee mugs, coasters, key rings etc. that can be purchased very inexpensively but will demonstrate that you are very happy with the work they have done.

Introducing 3 Cheap Ways to Shine This Christmas With Promotional Gifts For Your Key Customers

Almost everybody is cutting back this year but that does not mean your company profile has to suffer. You can still ensure you thank your key customers for their custom without breaking the bank. Remember that saying thank you does not need to be expensive! Your customers will probably love you even more when you take a little time this year to choose a Christmas gift this year with them in mind. Following is a list of three popular gifts that are cheap but don’t look cheap.

Promotional Pedometer: A lot of people never meet their key customers. That makes it all the easier to give them one of these popular and healthy promotional gifts. With a starting price of only £1.00 each but a perceived value of much more, pedometers are the perfect Christmas gifts. If you do know them, wear one to your pre-Christmas meeting and show them how good it is before you hand them theirs. What a great conversation piece.

Metal Promotional Pens: Metal pens look and feel expensive. There are a lot of metal pens on the market for under £2.00. Many are even supplied with cases. The key to finding an inexpensive metal pen is to look for generic pens. Many are very good quality pens but without the brand name price,

Ultra Thin Metal Credit Card Torch: Like many inexpensive promotional gifts, this gift looks first class. Products manufactured in metal look more expensive than they really are. The credit card torch features two eco friendly LED bulbs. This product is very popular on both sides of the pond. In the US, it proved to be a sell out last year. Contact you promotional gift supplier for more details and a sample of the exciting new product.

How To Find The Best Promotional Stress Balls For Promoting Your Business

There are many things to consider when looking for good quality promotional stress balls to promote your company
.  Many factories in China produce these fun stress toys but many are not worth importing and you would not want your logo printed on them.  On the other hand, there are a few excellent suppliers who produce good quality stress relievers.  Promotional gifts suppliers that specialize in promotional stress balls know who the good Far East suppliers are.  Here are five things to look for when ordering promotional stress balls.

Good Quality PU Foam:  Ask you suppliers to see samples.  If you ask for samples from a few companies, you will most likely get stress balls of varying quality.  Some will be hard while other will be very squishy slow releasing foam.  This is what you should expect from a stress ball.  The harder versions are substandard and will not represent your company well.  In fact, they could work against you.

Good Quality Stress Balls at A Low Price:  There are companies in the UK and US that bring in stress balls by the thousands and then sell them to promotional gift suppliers who then sell them on to their customers.  You will know when this is the case because their prices will be substantially higher than those who work directly with a manufacturer and import the products themselves.  It is definitely worth getting quotations from a few companies to ensure you are not paying over the odds.

Good Quality Print:  Stress balls that are purchased from stress ball wholesalers are normally pad printed.  Although this does not look bad, pad printing
is no where near the quality of transfer printing.  Ask your supplier to see both types of print.   If they cannot do this, you should probably look elsewhere.  In order to make an informed choice, you need to see both types of print!

Good Quality Base Coloring: If you are having stress balls manufactured in a certain colour, you need to ask that they are actually manufactured in PU that is that color.  Many lesser quality balls are manufactured with white PU and then sprayed the color of choice.  These will look good when you receive them but the print will not last.  Over time it will begin to crack.

Good Quality Spray Colours:  Many stress balls need to be sprayed additional colours.  For example an apple stress ball might be manufactured in red but it will need other colours sprayed on to make it look like an apples such as dark brown core.  When you receive your sample stress balls, make sure to give them a few hundred good squeezes.  Good quality spray on colours should adhere to the product and not crack.

It is important to remember that stress balls are manufactured to promote and to have fun.  No stress ball will last forever.  Over time the print may crack and the stress ball will begin to discolor.  If you look for high quality stress balls, they will last much longer promoting your business
much longer as well.

Promote Your Business Or Organisation With Promotional Highlighters

Highlighter pens serve a completely different purpose to popular promotional ball pens which are used much more frequently. For this reason, many companies write them off as promotional gifts. They should think again! Promotional highlighters are a very popular gift because they are used so occasionally. They are a useful product for the receiver that take a special place in their desk drawer. Due to the fact that highlighter pens are not used as often, they usually have a much longer writing life and are much more likely to remain in your customer’s possession longer. Printed with your logo and details, they promotional tools that will continue selling for you for months.

Promotional highlighters are commonly used by students in schools, colleges and universities as well as the business community. They are available in many different shapes and sizes such a popular triangle shapes featuring a different bright coloured ink at each corner and a flour shape that has five different ink colours. Highlighter desktop sets are also excellent gifts that feature larger print areas for your message. More conventional pen-like highlighters are also very popular as they are easy to bring with you to events in your front pocket as you would a pen.

For more information about promotional highlighters, contact a promotional gift supplier that specialises in promotional pens and highlighters. They should be more than happy to send you prices and samples of the most popular highlighter styles. They should also offer to supply you with PDF visuals of your logo on the highlighters to help you decide which one is best for your promotion.

Searching for Christmas Gifts For Top Clients – 5 Popular “Eco Friendly” Products to Consider

Businesses are now taking environmental issues much more seriously than they used to.  It is no longer cool to give products away that are just going to be added to our already overstretched landfills.  This is why a lot of promotional products are being manufactured out of raw materials that are sustainable, recyclable, biodegradable and/or run off solar, dynamo or water power.  When considering promotional gifts for your clients, it is important to try to find products that serve a purpose so that they will be used and kept for a long time.   Do you see the added bonus here?  Gifts that are kept for a long time also promote your business for a long time.

It is worth noting that tying the gifts in somehow with what you do will help your customers remember you and your brand. Following are five product types you might like to consider for your top clients.  Although they may not all be ‘eco friendly’ there is a better chance that they will remain in your customers’ possession than a lot of the ‘eco friendly’ gifts on the market.

Organic Clothing:  The promotional gift industry follows trends.  Many of the products that are available for promoting your business were popular on the high street first.  There is a lot of certified organic clothing on the market for promotion.  These garments look trendy which means your customers are much more likely to wear them.  Look around and you will find everything for attractive pullovers to top quality organic cotton jackets.

Promotional Tools:  OK, it will be difficult to find an eco friendly tool but tools are normally kept and used for a long time.  By tools, I mean anything from a high quality screwdriver set to a wine set:  products that are a means to an end.  When purchasing good quality tools, think to yourself, will my customer be using this next year or is it too gimmicky?  Remember, ‘kept’ is good, landfill is bad!

Alternative Energy Products:  These are products that are charged by water, sunlight or a crank of some sort.  Alternative energy products are the in thing right now.  People love to show off a clock that runs on water or an MP4 player that is solar powered.  There are hundreds of such gifts available so have fun finding the best ones. Order early as the most popular are likely to sell out early.

Eco Desktop Products:  Whatever your budget, you should be able to find an eco friendly desk tidy or pen pot.  Again, just because a product is being sold as eco friendly does not mean it won’t find its way to your customer’s bin.  Look for useful products you know they will like and keep.

Promotional Bags:  Jute shopper bags are the bag of the moment.  They are inexpensive and a good eco friendly way of carrying the Christmas groceries.  But did you know there are also a lot of other eco friendly bags on the market that might be more appropriate depending on the business you are in?  There are good quality conference bags, laptop bags, suitcases etc that are manufactured in biodegradable and also organic materials.  Give your customers a quality bag and they will use it regularly.

New Jersey criminal corruption sting largest in history

Solomon Dwek, the wire wearing FBI informant turned witness for the federal government in the largest New Jersey criminal corruption sting in its history emerged recently from the federal protection program long enough to plead guilty to a $50 million bank fraud. Dwek, 37, pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark to one count each of money-laundering and bank fraud, charges that can put him in prison for up to 11 years.
As Mr. Dwek stood before U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares in Newark  in his less than 30-minute appearance he entered pleas to separate counts of bank fraud and money laundering in connection with two bogus checks totaling more than $50 million that he tried to deposit at the PNC Bank.
“I am guilty your honor,” he declared, firmly and without hesitation. Later in Monmouth County, the scene was repeated before Superior Court Judge Thomas Scully in Freehold, where Dwek pled to similar state charges.
Many people are wondering about who Dwek really is and want to know more about him and the explosive details about his private con schemes and his role as the cooperating witness in one of the biggest ongoing federal corruption investigation where finally some details are starting to come to light.
The 2006 scheme is how Dwek originally came to the attention of federal prosecutors, who then turned him into an informant. Following his arrest, Dwek apparently spent 29 months as a cooperating witness, setting up rabbis and others in the religious community, as well as leaders which included sitting mayors, current political candidates and public officials on charges ranging from political corruption to money laundering in an undercover sting operation that prosecutors have called unprecedented in its scope.
Allegedly, Dwek snared 45 people in the string, of the 45, so far seven — all from Hudson — have pleaded guilty. Those who have been arrested and say they are innocent include the former mayors of Hoboken and Secaucus.
The U.S. Attorney’s office issued an advisory just before the hearing of which Dwek plead guilty saying only that “a central figure” in the July 23 arrests of 45 people on public corruption and money laundering charges would appear in federal court before U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares in Newark. A spokesman for the office declined to answer questions.  Dwek’s attorney did not return calls to our office. Dwek is described in nearly every criminal complaint and every indictment as a “cooperating witness who had been charged with bank fraud” but his name never appears in the court records and he has not appeared publicly in any court as a witness since the sting started. The first trial for those accused in the corruption sting is scheduled for January 2010, and Dwek is expected to be the main witness in the case.
In less than four years, Dwek has gone from a well-respected real estate mogul with a $300 million empire in seven states to a FBI informant, community outcast and admitted felon.
The following was reported in “The Daily Record”:
… The subjects of the arrests also include religious leaders from the Syrian Jewish enclaves in Brooklyn, Deal and Elberon. Sources said the IRS and FBI this morning seized documents from the Deal Yeshiva and the Ohel Yaacob synagogue on Ocean Avenue in Deal.
The Deal Yeshiva is a religious school which teaches children in the Sephardic Jewish tradition, The Yeshiva has two separate divisions: a boys’ school on Logan Road in Ocean Township and a girls’ school on Wall Street in West Long Branch.
The school was founded more than 20 years ago by Rabbi Isaac Dwek and Raizel Dwek, the parents of Solomon Dwek, of Ocean Township. Rabbi Dwek was the school’s president, and Raizel was its treasurer, until 2006, when their son’s real estate empire began to crumble after Dwek deposited a bad $25.2 million check at a drive-through window at the PNC Bank in Eatontown. …
Now the second wave of stories is suggesting that Dwek may actually be the key witness in many other arrests.
Here’s a report from Bloomberg:
… The cooperating witness is Solomon Dwek, a real estate developer in Monmouth County, New Jersey, who was charged May 11, 2006, with scheming to defraud PNC Bank out of $50 million, according to a person familiar with the matter and court records.

Prosecutors alleged that Dwek deposited two $25 million checks from another account of his, which had a zero balance. Dwek then wired $22.8 million out of PNC, falsely assuring bank officials that he would forward funds to cover the overdraft, according to prosecutors.

Dwek posted a $10 million bond, secured by $3 million in equity in the homes of his mother-in-law and sister-in-law. Dwek was never indicted, instead receiving 17 extensions from a judge to continue the period in which his case had to be presented to a federal grand jury. …
An Asbury Park Press investigation indicated that people who knew Dwek say he was wealthy, private, quiet, easy going and a pillar of the community. Business associates believed him to be a respected leader of a religious school, a successful real estate investor, a philanthropist and a devoted father of five. But according to court documents Dwek’s real estate empire may have been built on a foundation of crime which included money-laundering, bank fraud and lies.
How could his empire expand so fast and collapse even faster? And how could major banks, lenders, investors and even family members have been so blind to provide millions of dollars to a man they now say owes them more than $338 million?
Star Ledger:
Star Ledger reported that there examination of court documents it showed before Dwek became an informer for the FBI, he was running a wild Ponzi operation in which one investment was being used to pay off the debt mounting from the last one and on into the millions in the same kind of geometry that eventually exposed financier Bernard Madoff. The documents also seem to show that once Dwek turned informant he was so good at his work — money launderer to religious leaders, bribe-taking developer to politicians — that some of his targets seemed to be virtually throwing money at him.
In an amended bankruptcy petition, Dwek disclosed almost $500,000 in 20 separate secret payments:
There was $75,100 from a former partner, “left in a garbage bag behind his office.”
And another $28,400, labeled as “kickbacks for the sale of Florida properties.”
Some $9,000 in deposits returned on a cancelled deal for two condominium units located in Miron, Israel.
And $5,000 that were listed as “fictitious charitable donations given through Solomon Dwek’s American Express card.”
According to other court filings, investors were led to believe that Dwek would buy properties and simultaneously flip those sales to what turned out to be fictitious third parties at a higher price.
In another part of the scheme described in a series of lawsuits filed by the trustee, Dwek allegedly paid off Eli Seruya, the comptroller of his uncle’s business, to facilitate the fraudulent deals being made through the company. The trustee described gifts to Seruya of a new Lexus, partial payments on nine condominiums in Israel, and transfers through Dwek’s American Express account in excess of $1.3 million to a synagogue where the controller’s brother was a rabbi and he had access to its accounts, and had the ability to write checks to himself, the court documents charge.

The payments mostly came from people who were set up by Dwek. And the money went straight to the feds, the documents show. The entries, in Dwek’s own words, were included in the amended petition because by law all assets must be accounted for, even, it seems, if the money came from a sting and was passed on to the feds.
Those payments were detailed on an amendment to Dwek’s original bankruptcy petition to correct the list of assets he held, and were described in startlingly frank language. Included were checks coming out of several Florida and Israeli real estate deals, some involving partial payouts to Eliahu Ben Haim, principle rabbi at Congregation Ohel Yaacob in Deal. Ben Haim was among those charged in July with money laundering. Another $15,300 came out of a $20,000 cancelled deal that involved Ben Haim and Moshe “Michael Altman,” a Hudson County developer who, according to the criminal complaints, “washed” more than $600,000 in dirty checks to cash for Dwek through charitable, non-profit entities.

The most curious — and still unexplained — payment included on the new asset list filed with the court was $75,100 in cash received from Barry Kantrowitz, a Monmouth County real estate broker who represented Dwek in many property deals. According to the filing, the cash was left in a garbage bag behind the broker’s office.
Dwek’s bankruptcy attorney, Timothy Neumann, would not elaborate on the filing.
“I’m not at liberty to talk about it. The document speaks for itself,” he said.

In court Dwek admitted he schemed with mortgage broker Joseph Kohen, 39, of Deal, to defraud PNC Bank of more than $50 million and launder $22.8 million of the proceeds through other banks.
Kohen pleaded guilty in the case in March 2007. His sentencing is pending.
Court records describe his business enterprise as a multimillion-dollar scam orchestrated by Dwek who cheated friends and even his own uncle on fraudulent land deals.
His real estate properties were basically a shell game. He used money from investors to repay others, cover shortfalls on so-called “bleeder” properties that did not generate the income
needed to cover carrying costs, taxes or mortgage payments, and also to make charitable donations, according to filings by Charles Stanziale, the court-named trustee in the case.
“Dwek was able to raise money from new investors by delivering false profits to earlier investors and creating an illusion that he was a successful, philanthropic real estate mogul who delivered incomparable investment returns,” stated Stanziale in court papers.
The Ponzi scheme ultimately collapsed like a house of cards after HSBC Bank, which provided Dwek with a $25 million credit line, belatedly did a title search and discovered that it did not own the mortgages on properties it believed it was financing on behalf of Dwek in Neptune. According to court documents, Dwek already owned the properties. When the bank finally began looking at the property records, red flags went up, said Stanziale in court filings.
Most of the defendants charged in the string operation are claiming them and the government where duped by Dwek and as a result federal authorities framed “innocent people” to avoid a long jail term.
Dwek posed as a developer, secretly recorded conversations and so called payoffs to officials involving proposed projects, and he recorded several rabbis in New York and New Jersey, along with others in their religious community, regarding alleged money laundering schemes.
The lawyers contend Dwek fabricated cases for the FBI, all in hopes of avoiding a lengthy prison term.
“I think a jury will look at the tapes and at Dwek, and they will come to the conclusion that the only one guilty of criminal conduct is Dwek. He is one of the most vilified criminal defendants we’ve had in the last decade, and the government wants to erase all of his bad conduct — even things he has not been charged with — to make him their star witness,” said Robert Fuggi, a lawyer for Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt.
Other lawyers said Dwek’s own misdeeds, which are still being untangled by federal prosecutors, tower over the alleged crimes of their clients and tapes in the corruption case show Dwek pushing money on people — not public officials asking him for payoffs.
“When there is an undercover informant, he’s supposed to be uncovering crime that is going on. In the case of Assemblyman Van Pelt and many others, that was not going on. Dwek fabricated the crime, not uncovered the crime. He was the instigator of the crime, and he tried to entrap Van Pelt and others,” said Fuggi.
Prosecutors, however, regularly point out entrapment defenses seldom succeed in court.
Willis said federal prosecutors may attempt to try some clients without Dwek to avoid opening a “Pandora’s box.” That would be difficult and unusual, said several former federal prosecutors.
“He almost has to testify,” said John J. Fahy, former political corruption chief at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark.
For jurors to hear the tapes of alleged bribes, someone must testify they are legitimate, and Dwek is apt to be the best one to do it, said Mark Rufalo, former head of the organized crime strike force at the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
“The U.S. attorneys gave him his Chanukah gift early this year. He’s looking realistically at getting only five years (in prison) and that is pretty lenient,” said attorney Peter Willis, who is representing Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith and Jersey City Councilman Mariano Vega.
Sources:
U.S. District Court in Newark
FBI
PNC Bank
Monmouth County Superior Court
The Daily Record
Bloomberg
An Asbury Park Press
Star Ledger
Robert Fuggi Lawyer
John J. Fahy, former political corruption chief at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark.
Mark Rufalo, former head of the organized crime strike force at the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Defense  attorney Peter Willis

Generate Power Secrets – How To Get Free Power For Home

Generate Power Secrets – How To Get Free Power For Home

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Introduction:

A Long Kept Secret For Generating Free Electricity is Finally On The Open, And You’ll Never Have To Pay A Single Dime to the Power Company.

How would you like to create a generator which creates free electric energy? Using our easy-to-follow guide, you will be able create a Magnetic Power Generator which creates absolutely free energy, and doesn’t require any resource like wind or solar energy to function, the magniwork generator creates energy by itself and powers your home for free. The generator works fully off the grid, take a look at the following diagram to get an idea of how it works – Look The Guide.

This method has been researched for a long time, but due to suppression of this idea from the big corporations, the plans for building a free energy generator which could change the world have never been out on the open. We finally succeeded in creating a web site which offers the Do-It-Yourself instructions for building such a device, and it is considered that this device will be able to solve the energy crisis.

Did you know that you could completely eliminate your power bill, by constructing a zero point magnetic power generator?

A Zero point magnetic power generator is basically a Free Energy Generator. It uses magnets, and magnetic force to induce perpetual motion. It runs by itself, indefinitely without stopping, thus creating completely free electrical energy, which can fully power your home for free. A Perpetual motion device refers to a machine that runs perpetually i.e. indefinitely, and produces a larger amount of energy than it consumes. Thus, it produces free energy indefinitely, runs by itself, without having to need a third-party device or resource to power it.

The free energy devices have been suppressed by the corporate world, because such devices, would allow people to create their own energy for free, which would ultimately shut down the big energy corporations, because people won’t need to pay anymore for electricity to fill their pockets.

What are the Benefits of Magniwork?

By constructing the magniwork power generator, you will be able to generate completely free electric energy, meaning , create energy without needing any source of renewable or non-renewable energy. The generator powers itself and creates energy by itself, without requiring solar energy, heat, water, coal or any kind of resource. This generator powers itself and works indefinitely, without stopping, creating a large amount of energy.

Is It Safe?

The Magniwork free energy generator is safe to use and operate. It doesn’t produce any harmful byproducts or gases, and there isn’t any hazard concerning the generator itself. Even if you have little children, they may freely walk in the close vicinity of the generator.

The magniwork generator, is also a very eco-friendly solution, it doesn’t pollute the environment. The generator itself isn’t flammable or combustible, so it’s completely safe.

Criminal Background Checks Free of Charge To Search Criminal Records of People

At present, there are a variety of methods to conduct a background check or to search for peoples criminal history online. The reason for many people wanting to lookup criminal arrest records of someone is because it can help protect them from personal and financial loss. In addition, there are some websites which offer criminal background checks free of charge but it is believed that the best reports are obtained when paying for them.

Instant background checks have been created to provide clients with immediate information about an individual or a company. The information required will be vital to make informed decisions which will avoid unnecessary risks.

Performing complete instant background checks can offer you the prospect of choosing the best employee, the best partner and even the best friend. Moreover, you will protect you and your family from people who are potentially dangerous due to their past or some specific features of their personalities.

After paying the corresponding fee for the service, you will complete a form with some basic details on the person you want to investigate and then, in a few seconds you will have reliable results about the persons arrest reports, if someone is a sex offender or not, check arrest records of people, view criminal arrest history and more once you get the reports.

Instant background checks are the right solution for those who need more information about the people who are around them. Do not doubt to use this system if you are one of them.

As Bollywood following Hollywood now, we want it as it was?

Bollywood is India’s most extraordinary industry. There are other budding Industries as well, But it is bollywood which attracts most of the Indians, due to the fact that all the

Movies are made in Hindi language– which is a national language. Whether it is a rich businessman or a poor employee, bollywood delivers entertainment to all of them; it does not recognize caste or creed. A typical bollywood movie is packed with romance stories, dance and song, daring actions and most of all, family values which can be watched by purchasing a ticket.

Bollywood was not same by this name. Formerly it was known as Bombay film Industry, because it was an Indian version of Hollywood. By uniting Hollywood and Bombay came out bollywood, a new symbol of growing film industry in India. It was later that Bombay became Mumbai, but the name bollywood stayed in the hearts of every Indians and is the same ever since. The establishment of the Indian cinema has given Mumbai a large credibility,

Hindi movies were always a matter of pride, honor and efforts.

How Bollywood  is  going Hollywood:

Now bollywood movies are not same as it was, it seems like Hollywood movies. The concept, theme story etc every thing is changing slowly. Every director wants to direct his movie in Hollywood manner. Hollywood actor and actress are keen to work in hindi movies. The film director and producer are using special visual effects in their movies. The effect of Hollywood can also be seen in bollywood’s celebrity .Most of the bollywood celebrities are following Hollywood celebrities’ style and passion; they want to dress like them.

Most of the characters are introduced from Hollywood to make film visualization better on the screen. Such as hair dresser, costume designer stunt performer etc .But these movies are not getting better response from the public. Low budget movies are giving well performance.

Big budget movies like Kambhakt Ishq, Blue, Kites, New York to name a few, have had to postpone their release dates. Apparently, the distributors of the film industry are not ready to buy the big budget movies like Blue, 3 Idiots. Even Hrithik Roshan starrer Kites with the international touch has suffered immense looses.

This shows that following Hollywood is not showing better response on screen, we want it as it was.

Anxiety, fears trail Nkem Owoh’s kidnap

REACTIONS have continued to trail the abduction of Nkem Owoh by some unidentified gunmen on Monday afternoon along the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway.

Owoh, who is popularly referred to as Osuofia, a role he played in one of his early films, is from Enugu State, where he also lives.

Efforts to reach Owoh on two of his numbers have been unsuccessful, as the phones are ’switched off’.

A source close to the family of the actor confirmed that Owoh’s abductors have reached out to “his family members and a top official of the Enugu State government.”

The abductors, according to a widely circulated message, have reportedly demanded N15 million as ransom before Owoh is released.

Owoh’s abduction is coming barely three months after some unidentified gunmen abducted but later released popular actor and Re-branding Nigeria Ambassador, Chief Pete Edochie (MON).

Edochie was released three days after unidentified hoodlums abducted him at Nkpor near Onitsha. The former broadcaster and star of the television adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s epic novel Things Fall Apart later united with his family.

Though it was widely reported by a section of the media that his abductors had demanded ransom to the tune of about N10 million for his release, the bearded actor refuted claims that they demanded ransom for his release, stressing that on the contrary he was treated like a father and reverenced like an elder.

According to Chuma Onwudiwe, Secretary General of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), who confirmed Owoh’s abduction, the actor was probably on his way to a movie shoot ’somewhere around the Enugu-Abia axis’.

Onwudiwe confirmed the receipt of a similar message and said: “I am in touch with the family and our members in Enugu State, Owoh is a registered member of AGN there. I am also aware that the abductors have asked for a N15 million ransom. There is no other demand or news on the abduction yet, but be assured that I would reach you with further developments. The point is that someone has established contact with the abductors and I just pray nothing happens to him.”

Top Nollywood actor and producer, Steve Eboh aka Ajebo, expressed shock at Owoh’s abduction.

In his words, “it is sad that these hoodlums are now taking on people who are supposed to be making them happy in the face of depression. It is sad and a sad commentary too on the Nigerian question. If you link it to how our senior artiste, Chief Pete Edochie, was abducted recently, you would know that the people behind these are just people, who are hungry and protesting the bad governance in the nation and what have you. I think government should take a decisive step to improve the life of the people. Before it was militancy, now it is abduction.”

Hailed as the undisputed ‘King of Comedy’, Owoh hit the right note when he starred in the jubilee hit Osuufia in London in 2003. The movie was produced and directed by Kingsley Ogoro.

Owoh rode on the back of the two-part movie to emerge one of Nigeria’s highest paid actors, earning close to N2 million per movie appearance.

Owoh later veered into singing. He released an album, which he titled I go chop your dollar, which however, pitched him against government.

Though a song about advance fee fraud, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) banned it for promoting advance free fraud.

In 2007, Owoh was arrested in Amsterdam but was later released after Police raided venue of a musical show where he was performing.

The police arrested over 100 people on suspicion of lottery fraud and immigration violation but they didn’t find Owoh guilty.

Also in 2008, Nollywood and fans of the actor were thrown into momentary shock when it was rumoured that the actor had passed on following complications resulting from the rupture of hard drugs the actor reportedly ingested while trying to traffic them out of Nigeria.

Owoh was reportedly arrested in Afghanistan, where the rupture occurred. Owoh’s appearance in Lagos and some live television and radio interview he granted was what dispelled the rumour.

President of AGN, Segun Arinze, told The Guardian yesterday that the guild was working with relevant authorities to “ensure that Owoh re-unites with his family and gets back to the fold.”

He said, “we are all on red alert. My phones are on. I have been calling Enugu almost every five minutes. Our prayer is that nothing happens to him. We are entertainers. We work for every dime we have. So, demanding ransom from us is misplaced.”

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