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Silent Scandals

2009 Nigerian film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ16962071 ↗
Source-derived summary

Silent Scandals is a 2009 Nigerian romantic drama film written and produced by Vivian Ejike and directed by T.K. Falope, It stars Genevieve Nnaji, Majid Michel, Chelsea Eze, Uche Jombo and Ebele Okaro-Onyiuke. Chelsea Eze won the Most Promising Actress category for her role in the film at the 6th Africa Movie Academy Awards.

Editorial summary

“Silent Scandals” enters the record as 2009 Nigerian film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Silent, Scandals and Nigerian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Silent, Scandals and Nigerian.
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Why this record matters

“Silent Scandals” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Silent, Scandals and Nigerian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16962071. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Silent Scandals” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.