In defense of Toni Payne: Onyeka Onwenu blasts This Day writer!!!

Date: 04-11-2010 4:32 pm (13 years ago) | Author: Daniel Bosai
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Music legend Onyeka Onwenu has responded to an article in This Day Nigeria Newspapers which basically called Toni Payne a GROUPIE because she is/was married to 9ice. The article  ‘A Blaze of Glory for 2Face’ was written by Azuka Ogujiuba and published on October 30 2010. The article pretty much discusses Tuface’s numerous baby mamas and the “danger they pose to his career”. Where does Toni come in? Well the writer called Toni out on her relationship with 9ice and the purpoted celebrity status she has gained from that relationship. Apart from referring to her as a Groupie she writes;


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“Toni Payne who conspicuously falls into this category because of her undying and unimaginable love to be called “Celebrity” has finally created the biggest Rift or ‘BEEF’ [referring to the 9ice/Ruggedman beef] as they say in the Nigerian Entertainment scene…Some even suggest that 9ice’s decision to end their marriage was a smart move”.



How does all this involve Onyeka Onwenu? Well…Toni handles her PR and clearly she’s made a good impression ‘cos Onyeka wrote to the editors of This Day reprimanding the article & it’s writer. The letter is too long to post but here are the interesting bits.
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My dear Azuka, if you have a thing for 9ice, why don’t you go after him and leave Toni Payne alone. You have become too obvious and deliberate in your attacks. This is not journalism but vendetta, unprovoked, unwarranted and unbearable for those of us who pay money to buy This Day on Saturdays.

Your Editor should now call you to order. Enough!

I had not intended to write this article. I had made a personal phone call to Ms Ogujiuba, to try and speak with her about her unrelenting attacks on Toni Payne. This is the conversation that ensued.

Me:        “Hello! May I please speak with Azuka Ogujiuba?”

Azuka:   Silence (there is some talking in the background).

Me:        “Hello, my name is Onyeka Onwenu. Am I speaking to Azuka?”

Azuka:   “Yes, what do you want?”

Me:       “You seem not to know me but I really would like to talk with you about Toni Payne and the fact that…”

Azuka:   Cuts in – “How did you even get my number?”

Me:        “Oh I see that you are intent on being rude. Well, I will write your Editor instead. I don’t do rude” I switched off.

My song “One Love” has a line which says “living in the world is a struggle just staying alive” and that is true, particularly for a young, professional woman in Nigeria. The last thing she needs is a misdirected, ambitious and envious journalist, trying to put her down, ostensibly, because of her marriage choice.

I am not interested in Toni Payne’s private life and it is not my place to defend her choices but I do take exception to a journalist attacking someone for no good reason, particularly a woman. Azuka Ogujiuba, get a life and leave Toni Payne alone to live hers.

God bless you.

Onyeka Onwenu (MFR)





Posted: at 4-11-2010 04:32 PM (13 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- Eucharia at 4-11-2010 05:36 PM (13 years ago)
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Nsogbu
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- Eucharia at 4-11-2010 05:38 PM (13 years ago)
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Wahala dey ! Nija people
Posted: at 4-11-2010 05:38 PM (13 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Abby at 4-11-2010 05:49 PM (13 years ago)
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I think Toni payne should handle her business. Azuka needs to be checked but I don't think Onyeka should have gotten personally involved.  The girl was right for asking how she got her number, maybe not polite about it but still a valid question and how does the person who hangs up accuse the other of being rude  Huh?  I would have thought Onyeka was above all of this, but everyone is human after all. Journalism these days if full if shit, everyone knows it.
 Oh and her PR should have told her not to do it, its not a good look.  
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- Eucharia at 4-11-2010 06:04 PM (13 years ago)
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i believe Toni payne is big and matured to handle her case, why should Onyeka called Azuka all becos of Toni payne for what. why must she involved i think is not proper.
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- ugbest19 at 4-11-2010 08:13 PM (13 years ago)
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babi i go buy u dis , dat oo                  Image Hosting
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- solo4real at 4-11-2010 08:53 PM (13 years ago)
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well i didnt read azuka's article but to d best of my knowledge i believe criticism is part of journalism. However, I would prefer our pen pushers to focus more on constructive journalism rather than destructive journalism. Tuface, 9ice, Tony Payne, whoever..,they all have a right to their private lives which shld be respected.
Posted: at 4-11-2010 08:53 PM (13 years ago) | Newbie
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- faithangel at 4-11-2010 10:08 PM (13 years ago)
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enough of the Toni Payne nonsence........Onyeka Onwenu wouldn't have gotten involved in all this Toni Payne's shit.......she deserves what ever she got.
Posted: at 4-11-2010 10:08 PM (13 years ago) | Newbie
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- sixtyhoneyy at 4-11-2010 10:25 PM (13 years ago)
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hmm no comment
Posted: at 4-11-2010 10:25 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- princedafe at 4-11-2010 10:50 PM (13 years ago)
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Wat a senseless post
Posted: at 4-11-2010 10:50 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- smilingtodbank at 4-11-2010 11:19 PM (13 years ago)
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aunty onyeka, nice caution but a little bit harsh though.
azuka, don't get ur personal life attached to ur profession as a journalist no matter ur riff with anybody.
toni payne, those that live in glass house doesn't throw stones.
who gotta judge?
Posted: at 4-11-2010 11:19 PM (13 years ago) | Newbie
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- smilingtodbank at 4-11-2010 11:31 PM (13 years ago)
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aunty onyeka, nice caution but a little bit harsh though.
azuka, don't get ur personal life attached to ur profession as a journalist no matter ur riff with anybody.
toni payne, those that live in glass house doesn't throw stones.
who gotta judge?
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- Hardeysowyey at 4-11-2010 11:47 PM (13 years ago)
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I hope THE BEEF DOSEN'T GO ON btw Azuka and Aunty Onyenwu.Let Payne speak for herself,anyway that shld be in her new single Huh?
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- smilingtodbank at 5-11-2010 12:11 AM (13 years ago)
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no doubt it's part of journalism and also an icing to the cake of entertainment news. that's what people out there want to hear but media do your job and don't make other people's job so hard.
Posted: at 5-11-2010 12:11 AM (13 years ago) | Newbie
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- abiolaalebs at 5-11-2010 12:31 AM (13 years ago)
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i think aunty onyeka shld nt have involved herself in this matter...........toni payne can choose to do wateva she likes its not anybody's freaking biz.and azuka, wats ur P? Huh?
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- gloriajohn at 5-11-2010 01:29 AM (13 years ago)
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What has happened has happened, so the choice is her's azuka and onyeka shouldn't fight over this, is left for toni to make her choice..
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- dumosky2010 at 5-11-2010 03:54 AM (13 years ago)
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"Get a life and leave Toni Payne alone"  such a strong word....@ Azuka i m a man full of life....i wouldn't mind sharing some with you....so come get me.....lmao.....whatever...@ Toni Payne we got ur back u dig? so get some cool aid and get laid to relief ur stress....he ain't shit....get urself together and do ya thang.
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- dumosky2010 at 5-11-2010 03:56 AM (13 years ago)
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Quote from: gloriajohn on  5-11-2010 01:29 AM
What has happened has happened, so the choice is her's azuka and onyeka shouldn't fight over this, is left for toni to make her choice..

Gurl u don't read ?
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- dumosky2010 at 5-11-2010 04:03 AM (13 years ago)
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Quote from: Abby on  4-11-2010 05:49 PM
I think Toni payne should handle her business. Azuka needs to be checked but I don't think Onyeka should have gotten personally involved.  The girl was right for asking how she got her number, maybe not polite about it but still a valid question and how does the person who hangs up accuse the other of being rude  Huh?  I would have thought Onyeka was above all of this, but everyone is human after all. Journalism these days if full if shit, everyone knows it.
 Oh and her PR should have told her not to do it, its not a good look.  

Hola senorita....you see journalism is good, but it has a line that it cannot cross....categorizing people is no good thang to do u dig? she got a lot going on, so putting her shit out there all tha time ain't cool for real....acting like u working really hard by dissing people ain't tha ish.....i m cool with you, and what Onyeka did was pretty cool cos u can't expect somebody who got a lot going on to reply some crazy shit, cos she can't she been trying to make things right not to go out there and start doing shit...that ain't cool for real....no matter what, that shows that she people at her back u dig? man if i continue i ma write shit all day....just get my point...
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- willsnways at 5-11-2010 05:34 AM (13 years ago)
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It all boils down to one thing, "A lawless nation, with lots of dafts as it citizens! If not how could you have come out to post such shit, in the name of comment Abby? Eucharia, as for you I don't get what your point was, cos most of the English an statments were wrong so I don't want to waste time replying to your comments. Abbey, I thought you should have read between the lines an gotten meaning from the post, before writing trash, absolute trash!
  First, is Onyeka has every right to get in involved in the issue, first is she is Azuka's senior colleague, even though she is not practicing, second is like the atricle states Toni, is in her employ, third an most importantly is Onyeka, has ahown that she is not only a senior citizen but a responsible one, an a crusader for professionalism. My last point is one of the biggest issues Nigerians have to deal with, bcos its tearing down the nation. A point of correction, Onyeka's intervension is not personal, but was based on a call for professionalism in what ever we do. If Azuka has a personal issue with Toni, the fact that she is a junk journalist doesn't in anyway give her the right to devel into people's affair. Its a pity, like Onyeka stated, ppl don't pay to buy such shit information, that's not what or the reason ppl pay to buy a newspaper, sometimes you buy a papper it has nothing, as news that will benefit its reader rather everthing in it is trash, an most editors do not have the will power, or enough sence of undersatnding to enable them do wha,t they are employed to do,if not such a trash shouldn't have being published in the first place by Thisday!
   My point is Nigeria, needs more ppl like Onyeka, whom still knows what is right from wrong, an have courage to say it. We also need this to be done in the govt circle, to help check the excessiveness of govt officials in Nigeria, cos the nation is in a state of decay, as a result of lack Check an Balance, which is what Onyeka has done.
    On the issue of being rude, my dear Abbey, Onyeka an Azuka or Nkiru, whatever her name is, are not no same level, Azuka may not attain the level Onyeka did, so that question shouldn't have arisen in the first place. But lets get it straight, getting her no, is no big deal, anyone could have gotten it. An when that question was asked, the tone must have being rude, all Onyeka need do was drop the phone on the mad girl Azuka, whom lacks respect, and talk to her editor.
     Onyeka did what she sis supposed to do, I call on all well meaning Nigerains, to follow suit an don't have an oversight on issues you can address, this will help improve morals, ethical standards an help put the nation back on the path of growth.
      Azuka or Nkiru whatever you call yourself, you need some sound slaps to help get you back on track, cos you've lost it. If you don't have respect in your family must you also exhbit lack of parnental traning in public? In terms of Age, your an Onyka anit in same category, in the media industry you can never attain her height, eduaction an traning, your are way, way behind etc. So get it into you thivk skull.ok!
       Well done "One love, more grease to your elbows an feathers to your cap!! Long live Nigeria!
Posted: at 5-11-2010 05:34 AM (13 years ago) | Newbie
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