Wednesday 19 February 2014

Juliet Ibrahim and Omowunmi Akinnifesi cover Fashion & Lifestyle mag

Juliet Ibrahim and Omowunmi Akinnifesi cover the February edition of City People Fashion and Lifestyle magazine. See more photos of Juliet after the cut...

Tonto Dikeh flaunts short blonde new look and diamond bracelet

The actress shared the pics on her instagram page. She's dating a guy who deals in diamonds and it looks like he's spoiling her silly ... good for her!

Actress Uche Jombo shares her Surulere photo

Nice!

Governor Fashola Signs No Smoking Bill Into Law

Governor Fashola has signed the No Smoking in Public Places Bill into law. It means it is now illegal to lit your cigarettes in public places e.g public toilets, museums, nurseries, any facility used for the care of children etc. According to the law, people who smoke in public places will risk a 3-year jail term. Owners of establishments must also put a 'No Smoking' sign around their property or face 6 months imprisonment or N100,000 fine.

Corporate organizations that don't place the ‘No Smoking’ sign within its premises, would be liable to N250, 000 fine.

The best part is, anyone who smokes in the presence of a child shall be liable on conviction to a fine of N15, 000 or 1 month imprisonment.

Pics: AGN members visit President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House

Actors' Guild of Nigeria members including Ibinabo Fiberesima, Monalisa Chinda, Stephanie Linus, Fred Amata, Joseph Benjamin, Desmond Elliot, Victor Osuagwu, Chidi Mokeme, Mercy Aigbe and others paid a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan at the State House yesterday Feb. 18th to install him as Grand Patron of the Guild.

They also asked president Jonathan to sack heads of movie regulatory agencies, the Nigerian Film Corporation, NFC, and The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB), because they have shown lack of capacity to put the industry on the path of growth. See more photos after the cut...

Mbong Amata speaks on crashed marriage, says life happened

Actress Mbong Amata, estranged wife of prolific film maker & movie director Jeta Amata recently opened up on the life and times of her five year marriage, which sadly packed up a while back.

She spoke for the first time about her ended marriage in an interview with Encomium mag this week. She described the father of her 5 year old daughter as a friend for life.
"I have a lot of great and fond memories. I had more fun than bad memories with my former husband. I was first married to my friend before a husband. That was why we were civil enough to know that even if the marriage didn't work, we were still friends and that is the bedrock of whatever it is that we have. We are connected for life. We have a child together. Yeah, we are cool, He is my guy. Jeta is a great man, fantastic dad but life has to move on".
The actress said she is currently not in any relationship and getting married again wasn't in the cards for her at the moment as her main focus now is to raise her daughter and her career. When asked what really happened to their marriage, she said 'life happened'

UNILAG to name 15-storey female hostel building after Patience Jonathan

The University of Lagos management has revealed that its proposed 15 storey female hostel building which they would start to build soon will be named after the wife of the president, Patience Jonathan.

The first lady is expected to be in Lagos on Friday, Feb 22, for the foundation laying of the project which is expected to gulp N3billion.

Speaking at a media parley, the deputy vice chancellor Prof Duro Oni said they are naming the hostel after Patience Jonathan because of her immense contributions to the development of womanhood in Nigeria.‎

"It is a female hostel and the person due to be named after it is the President’s wife who has touched the lives of many women. Over time, we have been having issues with shortage of accommodation, especially for our female students; but as it stands, we are about to witness a huge relief in that regard. I must thank the first lady for agreeing to be part of the history-making event and also thank our parents for coming to partner with us,” he said." he said. The project, tagged: “Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan’s Female Hostel Complex’’, is expected to be completed in two years and would be financed by the parents forum of UNILAG." Prof Duro Oni said

UNILAG has a population of 28,000 students with accomodation provided for just 8,000 of the undergraduates.

Tonto Dikeh's relative blasts her for claiming she grew up poor

In a touching and emotional message the actress shared with fans on Monday, Tonto Dikeh, writing about her struggles before the fame, claimed she used to beg for food and clean rooms for N200. Today some lady who is related to her, (maybe her sister?) is claiming she lied.

See more tweets and what Tonto Dikeh wrote after the cut...

Princess Stella Oduah hands over, list achievements as Aviation Minister

Stella Oduah has formally handed over to the Minister of State for Trade and Commerce, Dr Samuel Ortom following her sack by the President last Wednesday, February 12th. (Pictured above)

In her speech, she thanked President Jonathan for finding her worthy out of the 160million Nigerians and also listed her achievements while she was Minister. Excerpts from her speech below...
"It was a great privilege to be chosen from amongst the 160million Nigerians to serve in the Federal cabinet. My profound gratitude goes to Mr President who gave me this rare privilege. I also want to thank for him all the support he accorded me to pursue his transformation agenda in the Aviation sector. I equally wish to thank my aides, aviation sector workers and stake holders who partnered with me to realize our vision & mission in the sector. During my tenure, we gave our best to institute reforms in line with Mr President's Transformation Agenda. We produced the Aviation sector Master-plan and implementation Road map. Using the Masterplan and Roadmap, we were ably to...

Pics: Lady Gaga wears fishnet bodysuit in frigid New York weather

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The singer stepped out in the frigid weather in just a fishnet bodysuit on Monday Feb. 17th in New York after an appearance on a late night talk show. See more photos after the cut...

Pastor Adeboye's message to skin bleachers

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A word is enough...