Nigerian international music superstar D’banj, has threatened to sue the UK Daily for describing him as a ‘legendary womanizer’ in an artcile that was published by the UK tabloid on 13th March 2014. In the article, the Daily Mail alleged that “Kenya Moore has claimed that she is dating an ‘African prince’ but no-one has seen him on show or in real-life”.
It went on further to alleged that D’banj was Kenya Moore offered the Nigerian singer the sum of $40,000 to fake a relationship with her.
Speaking exclusively with Encomium mag, D’banj said the report was rubbish and he’s currently discussing with his legal team with a view to suing the Daily Mail for spreading lies about him.
“The story has no substance. I am even about to sue UK Daily Mail for defamation of character. I am discussing with my legal team. They didn’t hear from me. Everything they wrote is totally wrong. They defined Kokomaster wrongly. I think they wanted to talk about Kenya Moore, who was a former Miss America, but they didn’t get their facts right. Everything they wrote was false. They are going to hear from my legal team soon” D’banj threatened
Diversity in fashion, is the modern fashion industry now embracing it? In an article written by Sarah Mower for Vogue.com, and titled, “Is the Fashion World Finally Embracing Diversity?” The writer took a look at how many designers are beginning to embrace the idea that beauty is not only Caucasians but rather, it is in every race.
And as a result, more and more designers are giving models from others races the chance to walk the runway and showcase their products. See below, an excerpt of the article as published on Vogue.com.
Every so often, a fresh cohort of models arrives and announces a new moment. One of the happiest sights of fashion in 2014: Grace Mahary, Imaan Hammam, and Cindy Bruna (pictured here). With their multinational, multiethnic backgrounds—not to mention their cheekbones, upswept eyes, and long, beautiful limbs—they’re leading the sort of epochal shift that makes editors fight, designers throw money, and agents scramble. At long last, the “white-out” years that have chilled the heart of the industry appear to be on the way out.
Models of color—from Pat Cleveland and Beverly Johnson to Naomi Campbell, Liya Kebede, Joan Smalls, and Jourdan Dunn, among others—have had a place in fashion since the sixties, of course. But progress in diversifying runways has been slow and at times has even run backward. Now a change seems to be at hand.
Mahary is a 24-year-old Canadian who takes her breezy, down-to-earth attitude from home. “My parents are freedom-fighters from Eritrea who fled the country. Because of that, I’m really proud to be representing.”
Bruna, aged nineteen, is French. A confident child of an Italian dad and a Congolese mom, she says that the notoriously tough career path walked by nonwhite models holds no fear for her. “I have my place,” she says, “and I think black models are the future.”
Hammam, meanwhile, is of Moroccan-Egyptian heritage, a seventeen-year-old studying fashion business at home in Holland. Riccardo Tisci chose her to open his Givenchy spring show, her head held high in a draped tobacco-color dress and flat sandals. And when she says with a shrug, “I don’t know the difference between black and everything else!” it’s an encouraging sign of the nonracial makeup of today’s teen consciousness. Why should people even bother to count whose genes come from where?
This article was written by Sarah Mower for Vogue.com. To read the full article, visit the publisher’s website using this link.
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Everyone has someone or something that inspire them to become what they are or what they want to be. Whether it is a mother, father, brother, sister, a celebrity, politician, a classmate, a friends, or an event that we hold dear to our hearts, there is always something. And the same goes for Virgin Group Founder, Richard Branson. In an article he wrote for entrepreneur.com, Richard Branson named his mother, Eve Branson as his biggest source of inspiration.
In the article, the business mogul shared the 5 business and life lessons that he learned from his mother. This lessons, the British entrepreneur said, has helped him to become the successful business man that he is today. Below are the 5 lessons according to Richard Branson.
1. No Regrets
I’m often flabbergasted by the amount of time some people waste dwelling on their past failures, rather than directing that energy into new projects. My mother always taught me never to look back in regret, but to immediately move on to the next thing.
Our family budget was fairly tight when I was growing up, and I was always fascinated by her money-making projects, which were often craft-based, like building and selling wooden tissue boxes and wastepaper bins. If an item didn’t sell, she tried something else.
Her activities inspired some of my first ideas, like breeding budgerigars and growing and selling Christmas trees. Both of those businesses failed: Since I went to a boarding school, I couldn’t take care of the birds, and rabbits ate the tree seedlings. But Mum had showed me that a setback is just another of life’s lessons, so I quickly moved on to other projects, following her example.
2. Learn to Survive– Fast
There is a rather well-known story about Mum stopping the car on the way home from a shopping trip and telling me to find my own way home — about 3 miles through the countryside, and I was somewhere around 5 years old. She was punishing me for causing mischief in the back seat, but she was also teaching me a larger lesson about overcoming my disabling shyness and learning to ask others for directions.
I got horribly lost, but eventually a neighboring farmer helped me to reach home. The experience made me learn to find the grit to overcome what may seem like overwhelming obstacles.
This has been a key principle in my business life. In a company’s first year, your goal should be simply to survive, and this will likely take everything you’ve got. No matter how tired or afraid you are, you have to figure out how to keep going.
3. Put Others First
There was always a focus on teamwork in our home — working in the garden, helping to prepare meals, cleaning up. I have two younger sisters, Lindi and Vanessa, and Mum always kept the three of us working hard. It certainly instilled a very healthy work ethic in me, as many of my staff would point out!
If we tried to escape chores, she would explain how selfish that was by describing the effect on everyone else in our family. We were a team, and we had to be confident that we could rely on each other. This has always informed my business philosophy: People are the most important part of any company.
4. Keep Your Feet on the Ground
When you start to become relatively well known, it can be easy to get carried away with your successes. (It can be especially hard to keep your head out of the clouds if you own a few airlines and have a taste for flying hot air balloons.) But Mum has always kept my feet firmly on the ground — metaphorically at least — partly because she knows me so well, and so she does not believe all the press.
She has rarely praised me in public; I was surprised but pleased when she admitted in a CNBC interview last year that she was proud of me, particularly of my charitable work. But she has always given me quiet, constant encouragement. Everyone in my family shows each other a lot of love, which is far more important than anything else.
5. Every Day is a Freash Chance to Achieve Something New
Mum has always seen every day as a fresh chance to achieve something new, fun and exciting. Even today, she is incredibly active, working very hard on all manner of projects — right now she is working on a memoir, and she recently published a children’s book. We still have to fit our schedules around her plans.
Mum is always looking ahead, focused on trying to improve things and bring about positive change. Following her example, I am always focused firmly on the future too.
Check out the many times Ebube Nwagbo rocked ankara African print outfits. The Nollywood actress whose shape has got a lot of Nigerian men gushing is a very stylish lady. And her well-built body structure always does justice to her outfits.
Below are the many times Ebube Nwagbo rocked ankara print outfits. You can learn a few tricks from the way she styles her ankara attires and upgrade your fashion style.
NB: Post has been edited and photos of more recent ankara print outfits from the nollywood actress have been added! Check them all out.
In the last few years, the ankara African print fabric has become very popular among Nigerian celebrities, fashionistas, and socialites. It is no longer regarded as a fabric that is worn by unexposed married women. Today, you will see little children, teenagers, men, as well as women that belong to the most fashionable and trendy group rocking it. In fact, if you do not own some ankara pieces in your collection, some will regard you to be someone who not up to date with fashion.
The love of ankara African fabric has given rise to many African and African inspired fashion designers who are creating pieces to top standards and style.
Events like African Fashion Week that has its edition in several cities has also helped in showcasing African fashion and its designers to an international audiences and the love for the colour print has been growing steadily.
It is no longer something that will be of surprise to many to see celebrities like Rihanna, Beyonce, Gwen Stephanie, Solange, Chris Brown, Monica, and many other non-African stars wearing pieces made with the colourful African print or made by indigenous designer from Nigeria and other African countries.
What do you think of these ankara print outfits that were rocked by the top Nollywood actress? Would you wear the looks in different or better ways that she has done? Are there also any pieces from these looks that you cannot wait to add to your own collection? Let us know your views on these pieces by leaving a comment below.
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Proving they really are the ne plus ultra of modern princes and princesses, William and Kate have released a curiously Instagram-influenced picture of Prince George for his second official photo.
“The photographer’s given it an Instagram treatment it seems,” opines one photographer of the Royalist’s acquaintance. “The blacks have a lot of blue in them and the highlights are yellow. Classic filter stuff.”
The informal snap, shot as the couple peer through a window at Kensinton Palace with Lupo and George, was released today. The photo will provide much needed imagery for journalists over the next few weeks in advance of the royal tour of Australia.
Other than a glimpse of the curtains, little of the Cambridges’ renovated Kensington Palace home can be seen in the photograph.
It is the first official picture of Prince George to be released since his christening last October.
The visit to Australia and New Zealand will be his first official overseas tour. The trip echoes the Prince and Princess of Wales’s visit to Australia and New Zealand in 1983 when the couple took William, then aged nine months, with them.
According tothis infographic from www.neotericuk.co.uk, these are the 17 facts about Social Media that’ll make your hair stand on end.
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Some interesting facts
A quarter of social media users state that they have experienced difficulties in relationships following confrontational behaviour.
The +1 button is hit at least 5 billion times per day. Google’s ingenious button allows users to instantly share and endorse favourite pages publicly and save for future reference.
73% of people would panic if they lost their smartphone which contains so much of their life from calendars to contacts and banking to blogging.
23% of Facebook users check their account at least 5 times a day. With the majority of the public owning a palm held mobile devices, checking social media on the go couldn’t be simpler.
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Check out Iyanya in suit N tie. Nigerian music artist, Iyanya has released some photos from his new photo shoot. In the photos, the Kukere singer was dressed in a black suit, a white long-sleeve shirt, a bow tie, and a red boutonnière.
Iyanya and Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson dated for a while and the Nigerian singer composed a song for her that was titled, ‘Your Wasit‘.
is homosexuality the same as terrorism? According to a report by Reuters, a leading Kenyan MP says homosexuality is ‘as serious as terrorism’. Aden Duale, a leader from President Uhuru Kenyatta’s party made the comment as a response to a group of MP’s who demanded that there should be tougher laws. See below, the article as reported by Reuters.
Homosexuality in Kenya is as bad a problem as terrorism, the ruling party’s parliamentary leader said on Wednesday, but argued against stepping up legal sanctions on the grounds that existing laws were tough enough.
Aden Duale, the majority leader from President Uhuru Kenyatta’s ruling Jubilee coalition, was responding to a group of MPs demanding tougher laws.
“Can’t we just be brave enough, seeing that we are a sovereign state, and outlaw gayism and lesbianism, the way Uganda has done?” legislator Alois Lentoimaga said.
Uganda has voted for life imprisonment for some homosexual acts, prompting some international donors to suspend aid.
Duale, who speaks on behalf of the Kenyan government in the assembly, said: “We need to go on and address this issue the way we want to address terrorism …
“It’s as serious as terrorism. It’s as serious as any other social evil,” Duale said, referring to a spate of attacks by al Qaeda-linked Somali Islamist militants carried out in retaliation for Kenya’s intervention in neighboring Somalia.
But he said the Kenyan constitution and the penal code already had sufficient anti-gay provisions, denying the government was reluctant to tighten such laws for fear of losing international aid.
Duale said 595 cases of homosexuality had been investigated in Kenya since 2010, when a new constitution was adopted, and courts had convicted or acquitted the accused, while police had found no organizations openly championing homosexuality in violation of the law.
“We do not need to go the Uganda way, we have the constitution and the penal code to deal with homosexuality, and so this debate is finished, we will not be enacting any new tougher laws,” Duale told Reuters later.
Homosexuality is broadly taboo in Africa and illegal in 37 countries. Fear of violence, imprisonment and loss of jobs means few gays in Africa are open about their sexuality.
Kenya’s penal code says any person “who has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature” is guilty of a felony and can be jailed for 14 years.
Anti-gay groups have emerged in Kenya after Nigeria and Uganda toughened up laws against homosexuals.
One of these groups, The Save Our Men Initiative, has said it is launching a “Zuia Sodom Kabisa” campaign, meaning “prevent Sodom completely” in Swahili, to “save the family, save youth, save Kenya”.
Nigeria has outlawed same-sex relationships. Gambia’s President Yahya Jammeh has said homosexuals are “vermin” and must be fought like malaria-causing mosquitoes.
Written by JAMES MACHARIA for Reuters (Additional reporting by Humphrey Malalo; Editing by Ruth Pitchford)
Nigerian international music artist, Tuface Idibia has released the video to his latest song, ‘Dance In The Rain’. The video was directed by Luke Biggins and released under the Hypertek Digital/960 Music Group.
