Kate Henshaw: 'I'm taking Eight years break from acting to do politics' -

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Actress Kate Henshaw has revealed she plans to take a break from acting to face politics squarely. When asked if she's quitting acting for politics in an interview with Sahara TV, Ms Henshaw said;

"Well, Well, I will take a break to serve the larger population of Nigeria. I won't quit. Arnold Schwarzenegger was Governor and he is back to acting again. You take time off,you serve your people. I don't hope to be there forever. I just want to do, make noise, leave when the ovation is loudest. That's the best way. Yeah ...I don't want to be there for 10 years, 12 years, 16 years, that's the best way. I want to do other things. 4-8 years, that's the limit you can hold me to my word."

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Kate Henshaw goes into politics: Set to contest for House of Reps

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Veteran actress Kate Henshaw has joined politics. She'll be aspiring to contest for the Federal House of  Representatives for Calabar Munical/Odukpani Federal Constituency underneath the PDP.  She'll run within the PDP to have the ticket. The primaries is in October. If she wins, which is most likely, she can become Hon. Kate Henshaw.   She will  officially unveiled on www.campaign.ng tomorrow July 19th, which can be her 43rd birthday 

I am not stopping music for politics –9ice

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Popular singer, Abolore Akande, aka 9ice, has denied online reports which claim he was quitting music.

The singer who recently announced his intention to run for the Ogbomosho North Federal Constituency seat in his home town in Oyo State, southwest Nigeria in 2015, says he does not want to leave music anytime.

An obviously infuriated 9ice tells E-Punch, 

“I am preparing to release a double album this year. We released five songs yesterday (Wednesday) and also shot a video. We plan to release another one on Friday. I am tired of these false reports, I can’t count how many times that 2face was rumoured to have died, yet he is still alive. It is so annoying and for the record I am still doing music full time. I just had my Industry Night on Wednesday night. So where are all these stories emanating from?”

Check out list of 13 Nollywood Stars Who Dumped Acting for Politics (Pixs)

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Many Nollywood personalities and actresses have both switched to music market, but unsuccessful in that area , or have gone in to politics, and it does not look like they are returning fully in to the industry.
Some of those frequent personalities have definitely been succeeding in their new discovered love. See link to the list of the numerous stars of yesteryear's, who've moved to politics:

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Pixs Post:13 Nollywood Stars Who Dumped Acting for Politics (Pixs)

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1. Richard Mofe Damijo is the present Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Delta State, Nigeria. He is making it big and seems to have almost totally 'dumped' Nollywood.

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