Tongues wag over Mariah Carey’s ‘N200m show’ in Lagos

When the famous American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress Mariah Carey agreed to put a N200m-worth performance in Lagos, Nigeria last week, little did she know about the controversy that was to follow.
The performance was at a send forth party for the retiring Group Managing Director Access Bank Plc Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013.
Now one week after the party, tongues are still wagging among local players in the entertainment industry over the monetary worth of the performance. Internationally, however, the brief visit to Nigeria has caused outrage among some, suggesting that the mother-of-two is wrongly supporting the “hub of human trafficking,” and others accusing her of “wrongly accepting a pay check from the African country amid crisis.”
At the event, which held at the prestigious Intercontinental hotel in Victoria Island, the 43-year-old gave a very amazing performance and she showed off her awesome curves in a midriff-baring lemon-colored outfit. She later posted a shot on Instagram of herself wearing a belly-baring bright canary gown with a long, hip-hugging bottom and bandeau top connected with a sheer, sparkly swath of fabric.
The caption read ‘Backstage in Nigeria.’ Carey was in Lagos, the most populous city in Africa.
The party, local players in the entertainment industry say, could go down in history as the most expensive send forth gig ever thrown to a bank CEO in Nigeria.
Aig-Imoukhuede is one of Nigeria’s most powerful bank CEO and is said to be interested in becoming the next governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, when the present governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi would have retired after just one term.

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