AGN President "Ibinabo Fiberesima" is now engaged

Former beauty queen, actress and current AGN president Ibinabo Fiberesima is engaged. The mother of three who has never been married quietly got engaged to her man a few weeks ago and according to new reports they will be getting married by the end of the year. Ibinabo hinted a change in her relationship status when she changed her Facebook profile from in a relationship to engaged and also shared a pic of her rocking what looks like an engagement ring. see photo below ..Congrats her excellency  her

Clarion Chukwura calls Ibinabo Ex-convict, Says she's not fit to lead AGN

The beef between these two women is obviously not ending anytime soon. About a week after Actors' Guild of Nigeria president Ibinabo Fiberesima issued a statement addressing the constant attack from actress Clarion Chukwura, saying she was only trying to destabilize AGN, Clarion is not relenting and has fired back. In an interview with Punch today, Clarion said Ibinabo is an ex-convict and therefore not fit to lead AGN.

“I am not on the same level with Ibinabo professionally, educationally or in any other form. I find that she is deliberately misleading the public and wanting to push the issues at stake under the table with her so-called open letter. I will not allow her to do that.

“Item ‘U’ of the electoral guideline of AGN disqualified her. No convicted person can stand for election in any post. She was convicted for manslaughter and she was given a jail sentence which she served. There is a court injunction stopping Ibinabo from parading herself as the AGN president. This is the copy of the judgment. I have it. Manslaughter has no option of fine. Her sentence was reduced from seven years to five years and we all know she went to jail. The judgment reads in part, ‘there is proof that she drove recklessly and caused the death of Dr. Sura Giwa contrary to the road traffic laws of Lagos State.’ She was drunk. How could this person be the face of AGN?” Continue..

“The court injunction of 2011 and 2013 was forwarded to the presidency. The criminal conviction of manslaughter was sent to the presidency. The president is supposed to be a symbol of the supremacy of the rule of law. He disregarded the law in recognising Ibinabo as president of AGN. The president is now saying there is no law in this country. So the AGN has become an ethnic grouping. This is a professional body of actors. It is not a Niger Delta solidarity platform,” she said.

The actress said she wouldn’t have joined Ibinabo’s party to Aso Rock even if she had invited her, saying,

“Some actors have even explained to me why they followed her. They said they were taken there on a fraudulent arrangement for her to use and get what she wanted. Would she really have approached me for a thing like that?”

Clarion alleged that Ibinabo had been going from one state government house to another to “beg” for money.

“I have the data of every government house she has been to. No single chapter has seen a dime for running the guild. She went to Ondo State and she was given N500, 000. What chapter did she inaugurate in Ondo State? The guild wasn’t set up to go begging from one state government to another.”

Clarion said Ibinabo couldn’t have clocked 40 years as she claimed in her letter because,

“In 1989 when she was running Pyramid Club in Lagos, she was 22. How can she say 25 years later that she is just turning 40? I have known her a long time. I know what I am saying when I say she is not a professional actor.”

When reminded that Ibinabo had featured in some movies, Clarion said, 

“That is not what makes you a professional actor. You have market women in the East who have acted in one or two movies; that doesn’t make them professional actors. I will be 35 years in this industry soon. This is the industry that has made me everything that I am. I will not stand by and watch it destroyed. People have placed their trust in me. I am an activist. People believe that I will bring justice to bear on this issue because I am afraid of nobody.”

Concerning Ibinabo’s allegation that Clarion just registered as a member of the guild few weeks ago, the veteran actor said,

“I joined the AGN in 2002. I was part of the process that brought in Zach Orji as the president of the guild and thereafter Ejike Asiegbu. When it was time for Ejike to leave, the whole thing degenerated. A caretaker committee was formed with KOK as the chairman and I as the vice Chairman. These are my identity cards. I even have a membership certificate which was signed by Segun Arinze who was the national president and Ifeanyi Dike as the BOT chairperson.

“I went to pay N5000 into the guild’s account as my dues for this year. She should provide any proof showing that I just got registered.”

Clarion also used the opportunity to fire back at Ifeanyi Dike, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the guild who she claimed had maligned her in some publications recently.

“The BOT led by Ifeanyi Dike has been the same board since the incorporation in 1999. According to the constitution, they were to serve 10 years and leave for a new board to replace them. People had become aware that the BOT members are not men of integrity and the guild wasn’t moving forward.

“They refused to leave and a court injunction was obtained in 2011. I have a copy of the injunction as you can see. The court injunction prevented them from holding any election. But they ignored the injunction and allowed themselves to be financially induced by Ibinabo to run for the election.”

Clarion said she wasn’t attacking Ibinabo just because she (Clarion) wants to contest for the AGN presidency.

“The first step is the dissolution of the BOT. When the time for election comes, there are several credible people who are prepared to run for the post. I will give my support to any credible candidate who wants the viability of every chapter. I will pass my plans and ideas to that person. It is not about me wanting to be president. I will gladly work and support the new person in an advisory role.”

Culled from Punch

Ibinabo Fiberisma thinks FFK's call for Aviation Minister's Resignation is Wiked & Stupid

                 Ibinabo                                Fani Kayode                                     Stella Oduah
Ibinabo Fiberisma is the AGN President and the organizer of Miss Earth beauty pageant which just held. Ms. Ibinabo is angry at those who called for the resignation of the Aviation minister, Stella Oduah after the recent plane crash. Find her letter below.

CRY MY BELOVED COUNTRY NIGERIA!
NCAA AND NIGERIAN AIRLINES - WHO MAINTAINS THE NIGERIAN AIRLINES' FLEET

I am Angry, outraged, pained. I will now be verbal and outspoken. I will continue to pray because HE is all I have. My God, but HE has given me the strength and Grace to make a change. I won't stay mute, and watch my country grieve again!
We, as a nation, must commiserate with families of the victims of the latest air mishap in Lagos. Our sincere condolences must go to them.


This is not the time for irritating and annoying political talks. It is sad that when such unfortunate incidents occur, some people only try to see how they could make political gains out of such unfortunate situations.

The call for the resignation of the Minister of Aviation in some quarters is very annoying, irritating, stupid and, an advertisement of, not only, the ignorance of the callers but also their level of insensitivity and wickedness! In as much as government has a duty to ensure that we have safe skies, it is not every accident that should be blamed on the government. The Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, is the best Aviation Minister ever to handle that ministry since our independence. It is, in fact, a monumental disservice to decency to be comparing her distinctive strides and achievements to those of her predecessors because those ones never performed.

It is true that accidents do occur. It is equally true that accidents sometimes occur even when the strictest of safety practices are observed. However, it is an indisputable truth that some others occur as a result of deliberate not-so-good avoidable practices. To the latter, you can pin almost all the air accidents that have occurred in Nigeria.

We all know that air accidents do occur even in the most technologically advanced nations of the world. However, we also know that in the case of Nigeria, some of these airlines indulge in practices that are at parallel with the demands of aviation safety.
A lot has been said about the ages of aircraft that ply the Nigerian skies. It is very pertinent to point out that the age of an airplane has nothing to do with its airworthiness. What matters is the airworthiness of every aircraft irrespective of its age. The biggest airlines in the world still have in their fleets aircraft manufactured in 1968! Delta Airlines in the US still flies their DC-9s. Dana was, and is still, being crucified for using MD 83 but these planes are the mainstay of some big carriers in the US. Fifty year old planes are still flying all over the world by the big airlines. So the problem in Nigeria is maintenance and pilot errors.

The Air France that crashed off the Brazilian coast was barely a year old. The crashed Kenyan Airways B737-800 was four months old! History is replete with these examples of crashed very new planes. One would rather fly a well maintained 48year old plane than be found in a 5years old plane whose due maintenances are not being observed.

Airworthiness is not unlinked to aircraft maintenance. This is where the problem is with the Nigerian airlines. The government has been doing everything possible, within its capacity, to improve aviation in Nigeria and, of course, safe skies for Nigerians. The present government has even gone a step further to remove import duties on the acquisition of aircraft and aircraft spare parts so as to help the airlines cut costs and invest more on maintenance. However, it is doubtful if these airlines are taking the issue of maintenance very seriously.

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority -NCAA is the agency responsible for oversight functions on the airlines in Nigeria. Blame games must take back seats now. Let us ask questions and proffer solutions.

Does the NCAA know who maintained the Associated Airline's fleet and of course, who signed off the crashed airplane? Those engineers must have questions to answer and if found responsible, must be dealt with. Their licences must be revoked.

If it is true that the aircraft had, prior to the ill-fated flight, been parked for several months due to faulty engines, who then repaired or overhauled the engines? How many hours of test flight was conducted before putting it out for commercial operations? Did NCAA certify the aircraft airworthy before this flight? These questions and their answers are not geared towards vindictive tendencies but to help address issues of safe operations.

NCAA must begin to ask questions about who maintains the diverse fleet of these airlines. It is the duty of the NCAA to ensure that every airline in Nigeria engages the services of the best MROs or highly qualified and experienced engineers in the world to run their maintenance. MRO means Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul company.

The NCAA should also carry out periodic audit of the airworthiness of all aircraft operating in Nigeria. Transparent severe Sanctions must be meted out to any airline found wanting to this end.

Again, to carry out this critical function very adequately and to achieve the expected outcomes, the NCAA should be funded to acquire the services of qualified independent assessors to carry out this periodic audit. Such assessor companies stake their names in the reports they release of their respective findings. An assessor is blacklisted if anything untoward happens in an airline it has given an all clear. They would do unfettered good jobs of this in other to remain in business. This would go a long way to ensure airworthy equipment in the industry.

Most crashes are as a result of pilot errors also. Airlines must be prevented from giving command so easily to pilots whose experiences and expertise are doubtful. Pilots must be made to attend refresher training sessions in world acclaimed training facilities.

Most importantly, any airline that is found to be wanting in these areas should have its Licence and AOC revoked. The directors or the owners of such an airline must never be allowed to operate an airline again, either in their previous name or in a new name. They must never come back in a new name.

Besides auditing the engineering and maintenance departments of these airlines, the NCAA must also force all the existing airlines and the ones planning to join the business to show proof of adequate dedicated funds meant for fleet maintenance.

Maintenance is key. Government, on its part, should make it mandatory for every airline to have a maintenance hangar and go a step further to provide the airlines lands at the airports to build such hangars.

With these solutions implemented, the issue of air crashes would soon be forgotten in Nigeria. God bless our Nation.

Ibinabo Fiberesima
President Actors Guild Nigeria

AGN President Ibinabo Fiberesima sets up foundation for families of accident victims

The actress and Actors Guild of Nigeria president was involved in a car accident in 2006 which led to the death of a medical doctor. She hit his car along the Lekki/Epe Expressway in Lagos. She was sentenced to five years imprisonment for manslaughter in 2009 but only spent a few months there. She came out of prison a completely changed woman, bidding farewell to alcohol, cigarettes and partying. The single mother of three who is now a born again Christian is setting up a foundation to cater for the welfare of families of accident victims. Ibinabo explains:

“I do have a foundation which I’m setting up. In 2006, I had an accident and a medical doctor, Mr. Suraj Giwa died in the process. A lot of things went wrong, I was sent to jail because of the accident.

It is quite painful, it’s taking me this long because I needed to find myself again. The foundation is going to be for the families of accident victims. I’m going to get people to talk to them and to heal their wounds. What I went through, I was healed by the grace of God.”

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