Take a look at Annie Idibia’s Guiseppe Zanotti Sanadals. The Nollywood actress and wife of Nigerian talented musician, Tuface Idibia shared her first post-baby photo.
In the photos, Annie, in the company of her best friend, Mary Koko, was seen wearing black jean trousers and a black T-Shirt with gold designs in the front.
Annie’s outfit was then accompanied by a golden Guiseppe Zanotti sandals and a chunky gold necklace.
The mother of two was delivered of her 2nd child, about three weeks ago in the United States. Her first daughter is Isabella.
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Planning your honeymoon and looking for the best destinations to give you the maximum experience in 2014? Well, Lonely Planet has revealed the 10 best honey destinations for the year. As you are already aware, a honeymoon is a once in a lifetime moment, therefore, care needs to be taken in choosing the right place. And according the ‘Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2014’, these 10 honey destinations are sure to provide you with a “lifetime’s worth of romantic memories.”
Check out these 10 destinations below to see the one that will make you shoot for the moon by travelling further, staying longer, eating more and bringing home a lifetime’s worth of romantic memories.
Cappadocia, Turkey
The fairy chimneys of Turkey’s Cappadocia are stunningly eccentric, one that needs to be shared. The area offers a wide range of ways to explore it on foot or by car. However, if you you really want to get the best out of the place, you will have to get up before dawn and take a balloon ride over the spiky landscape and breathtaking architectural designs.
After having your afternoon-nap, you can watch the sunset by climbing the stairs up to Uchisar Castle, the highest of the area’s tallest fairy chimney. It is the place where Cappadocia mixes with the clouds and everything from Mt Erciyes to the Pigeon Valley is in a spectacular panorama view.
A great place to stay in Cappadocia is Argos. It was once a monastery but has been turned into the most stylish and charming hotel in Cappadocia.
Brazil
The football World Cup has generated a lot of excitement for Brazil. Copacabana and Ipanema have their charms, however but the fantasy is a remote stretch of coastline where it’s just you, a few locals, hammocks, and caipirinhas. the world around Paraty, concerning midway between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, fits the bill: remote, uninhabited and with one of the most pristine coastlines you can find around the world.
Pousada Picinguaba (www.picinguaba.com) is AN completely charming 10-room pousada in a very sleepy-eyed fishing village wherever the sole tourists square measure edifice guests.
The area around Paraty, a region between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, has the right ingredient to suit your your honey moon needs. It is remote, scantily populated and has one of the most spotless coastlines you can find anywhere.
You can lodge at Pousada Picinguaba. It is an utterly alluring hotel with just 10 rooms located in a sleepy fishing village where all the guest are tourist lodged in a hotel.
Marrakech, Morocco
unarguably one of the most colourful and romantic cities on earth, metropolis is redolent with Arabian spices and rose petals, lit by lanterns and soundtracked by Gwana music. The medina is almost impossible to navigate. As a result, you’ll have to add getting lost to the experience you’ll be having there. You can also stop and enjoy some mint tea or strong coffee, bargain in the souqs and watch snake charmers in Jemaa al Fna, the central square.
A nice place to lodge is La Maison Arabe. The lodging combines the captivating charisma and secluded spaces of a riad with the comfort of a full-service hotel.
St Lucia
The Caribbean islands are well known for their rum punch, white sand, crashing waves and stunning vistas, and it is no different with St Lucia. But there is something special about this place that sets it apart from the rest of them. The place is filled with lush forests, striking silhouette of the Piton mountains (a Unesco site) and lots of adventurous activities. Sharing physical challenges and satisfactions is a great way for a couple to begin their life together and St Lucia is a great place to do that. You can climb the 786m Gros Piton, dive, snorkel, zipline and try the island’s unique scuba-snorkel hybrid called Snuba.
You can stay at Ladera. The rooms have three walls and lies smack between the Pitons. The Paradise Ridge suites up the ante on romance and luxury.
Andalucía, Spain
Having an alfresco lunch under the sunny skies at the olive orchards of southern Spain is an experience not to be missed. You can have a jamón ibérico, olives, manchego cheese and local Jerez sherry on a blanket woven by hands, which can be followed by a leisurely siesta. Outside Seville, the wild mountains provides the perfect setting for a heavenly and an isolated fiesta. For a night time outing, see flamenco, the dance of love and passion. Some of the world’s most talented flamenco dancers such as Joaquin Cortes, Isabel Pantoja, Rocio Jurado, Miguel Rios, and Joaquin Sabina, are from Andalucía.
Trasierra, a quirky hotel that’s about an hour from Seville, does delicious picnics. Another great place is Corral del Rey, it is a boutique town hotel close to Seville’s best tapas bars and flamenco clubs.
Bali, Indonesia
Filled with juicy mangoes, night-blooming jasmine, technicolor sunsets, Bali is unarguable the world’s most captivating island. In their culture, the days begin by making flower offerings to their Hindu deities at roadside temples. And it is a place where every visitor is greeted with a smile, but sensual undercurrents flow. Bali is also well known for indulgent spa treatments, like floral baths or spice body scrubs, and of course couples’ massages.
Hotel Tugu (in Canggu) is filled with art and antiques that bring back to life forgotten tales of the romance of Bali and Java.
California, USA
While tropical beaches can be great places to have a refreshing holiday, they are not the perfect place for all kinds of occasion. There are moments that all you really want to experience is a bit of drama and power, majestic cliffs, moody fog and awesome (in the old-fashioned sense) waves. There’s something undeniably romantic about a cool-weather beach, and Big Sur is as good as that gets. Away from the sea, you can visit national parks with towering redwoods and plentiful hiking trails. There are also outstanding restaurants (California cuisine lives up to the hype) and a New Age healing culture.
Perched on cliffs 350m above the Pacific with 39 rustic-luxe cabins, Post Ranch Inn is a trip-of-a-lifetime hotel.
Queenstown, New Zealand
Adrenaline is as important for bonding as the love drug oxytocin and New Zealand’s South Island – is the best place to get it pumping. Queenstown is not only the birthplace of bungee jumping, but also the home to jet boating, paragliding, Zorbing, as well as epic hiking and skiing. Loads of new mountain bike trails are opening in 2014. If you get tired of all those activities, there are helicopter rides over the Southern Alps to stunning Milford Sound, as well as a sophisticated food and wine scene.
Matakauri Lodge (www.matakauri.co.nz) has drop-dead views of the Remarkables range and Lake Wakatipu; not so far away from the town but blissfully remote.
Colchagua Valley, Chile
Off the beaten track for food and wine tourism, Chile’s main grape-producing region, about two hours south of Santiago, is blissfully and scantily populated. It is impossibly stunning, with the Andes’ jagged snowcaps rising above the rolling vine-covered hills. Along with tasting world-class Carménères, Malbecs, Cabernets and Syrahs, visitors can hike, bike and ride horses (the area is home to Chile’s huaso, or cowboys), tour colonial towns, as well as visit an exceptional museum owned by Carlos Cardoen, a former arms dealer.
Casa Lapostolle (www.relaischateaux.com) is intimate and spectacular. It has four large casitas offering to-die-for views from the baths and great food.
Dunton Hot Springs, Colorado, USA
A stay in this singular resort in remote southwestern, Colorado, is an opportunity to really escape all the hustle and bustle of modern life. The owners acquired a derelict mining ghost town, gussied up the 13 homestead cottages on the site and recreated the romantic ideal of the American frontier: rugged mountains, simple living, hiking, fly-fishing, riding and taking a step back in time – but with creature comforts such as heated floors and fine linens – as well as staffs ready to cater to every whim. New (from summer 2013) is bona fide glamping, with eight luxury tents along the river at the Cresto Ranch camp down the road from the main town.
Snow-covered winter is a magical time to visit, when the hot springs feel extra steamy and activities include dog-sledding and heli-skiing.
Check out the Official Video of Mavin Records artist Dr SID’s single SURULERE (which means patience is rewarding) off his SIDUCTION album.
Starring, Funke Akindele, Helen Paul and Blossom Chukwujekwu, Surulere tells the story of a young couple who were unable to have a baby. And in spite of all the pressure they received from their extended family, the couple stayed together and the woman got pregnant in the end.
Check out these super cute and latest floral print outfits for little girls. The pieces are from the Dolce and Gabbana Girlswear Spring-Summer 2014 junior collection. You can pick one or more of these pieces for your little girl and they’ll kill it where ever they wear them too.
If you can’t pick these up, you can use them as a source of inspiration for the latest print outfits for kids and make your own custom designs for your little girl. If you know how to make clothes, you can make your custom designs for your baby girl by yourself. If you cannot make clothes, you can give the project to your designer.
For those ankara lovers, you can make these same styles with the normal African print fabric or the ankara chiffon fabric. You just have to replicate the styles by replacing the floral fabric in these outfits with the ankara African print fabric.
Apart from floral print which is the dominant fabric in this children’s collection, there are also some pieces made with white and other colourful lace fabrics. If you would like to make one of more of them with an African touch, you can use the French lace or the cord lace fabric that is popularly used for making African clothes and especially asoebi wedding outfits. Don’t forget you can also make them with the colourful ankara fabric. So, the choice is yours.
Good luck As you look for ways to always make sure your little girls look good always and slay with swag.
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Nollywood actress and Half of a Yellow Sun star, Genevieve Nnaji, was interviewed in on a Canadian talk show known as George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight.
The interview, published online yesterday was recorded in 2013, during the premiere of the film adaption of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s award winning book, “Half of a Yellow Sun“. In the interview, the Nollywood actress talked about her role in the film, Nigeria, how she was first featured on the Oprah Winfrey show, how she learnt a lot about the Eastern part of Nigeria by reading Chimamanda Ngozi’s book and so much more. See the video below.
How do you tell the story of a war no body knows about? Nuban Ahmed Khatir is using the only ‘weapon’ he has: a camera.
The 25-minute long documentary, “Eyes of Nuba” tells the story of a Sudanese journalist, Nuban Ahmed Khatir, one of the self taught journalists based in the Nuba Mountains on the border between Sudan and the newly created South Sudan.
Eyes of Nuba will be screened on Sunday 26th January 2014 at 20:00 Greenwich Mean Time on Witness, Al Jazeera’s flagship documentary program.
The 25-minute long documentary tells the story of Ahmed Khatir from Nuba Reports, a small-group of self-taught journalists based in the Nuba Mountains on the border between the modern Sudan and the newly created South Sudan.
When the war started in June 2011, Ahmed was left defenceless, as he watch his family home set up in flames and burnt down by the Sudanese soldiers.
But while some would have taken up arms to join with the rebels, Ahmed joined a group of citizen journalists who are committed to making sure the world knows about their story.
“At the start of the new century, the genocide in Darfur in Sudan and the atrocities committed there made headlines,” says John, the film’s director. “Foreign governments and humanitarian organisations, prompted by global news reports filled with graphic images of death and mayhem, finally took action. Aid and outrage poured into the region and Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir subsequently became the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the International Criminal Court. But the tragedy of genocide had not been confined to just this one corner of Sudan. In the neighbouring province of Southern Kordofan, and particularly in the Nuba Mountains, a similar catastrophe is currently underway and yet nobody seems to know about it.”
In an effort to drive out the citizens and residents they feel are working with the SPLA-N (Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North), Sudanese bombers, choose at random, villages to attack and burn down.
As a result, many are now on the brink of starvation as they were forced from their land and now have to live in nearby caves.
But this is a forgotten war. “The U.N. and most NGOs abandoned the region when the war began in 2011 as the Sudanese government could not – or would not – guarantee their safety,” says John. “The Nuban population is essentially cut off from the rest of the world due to the remoteness of the region, the fact that journalists and NGOs are banned from entering the area, and cell phone and television coverage being cut off.”
Ahmed and his colleagues are aware that for the individuals living in Nuba, raising awareness and sharing the information with the rest of the world, may be their only hope of survival. Their plan is to try to nip it in the bud to stop the region from degenerating further into genocide and prevent it from becoming the next Darfur.
Unfortunately, in the time since the documentary finished, the conflict was already intensified with the outbreak of the new friction in South Sudan. “Yida Refugee Camp is home to 70 000 Nubans, including Ahmed’s family,” says John. “It’s in Unity State in South Sudan, which borders Sudan. This has been a flashpoint region as rebels briefly took control of Bentiu, the state capital, which is around 100 kms from Yida. Fighting raged as government forces took back the town in early January, with reports of dead bodies lining access roads. As a result, the UN and other NGOs have left Yida Refugee Camp, leaving Nuban refugees without relief services. Many are now returning to the Nuba Mountains. So an already horrific situation for them just got worse.”
In the meantime, in the Nuba Mountains, the Sudan Armed Forces have recently begun new efforts to take back the region from the rebel SPLA-N, with large troop mobilizations being reported. A battle took place at Toroje in which the rebels drove away the Sudanese army raid and seized tanks and weapons. Ahmed arrived at the front line after the fighting and his report can be viewed here.
UPDATE
The screening time has changed: its now 22:30 Greenwich Mean Time on Sunday
Losego Mosepo, the South African actress best known for her role as “Letti Matabane” on South African/Mnet soap Isidingo is dead. The motivational speaker and AIDS ambassador was found dead in her home in Randburg, South Africa.
According to a statement from her family spokesperson, Gabi Tabane, “Today, we are really heartbroken to share that Lesego Motsepe passed away. She was found dead this morning at 11 o’clock by her brother Moemise Motsepe,”
“She was confirmed dead at one o’clock by paramedics who indicated that she died of natural causes,” he added.
In 2011, the motivational speaker made it publicly known that she has been living with HIV/AIDS since 1998. She made the announcement on World Aids Day, in a bid to help fight the stigma people living with HIV/AIDS face.
the actress’s body was found by her brother, Moemise Motsepe at about 11am on Monday. “Lesego was a loving daughter, sister, a motivational speaker and friend,” the family’s statement said.
The actress left behind, her mother – Ivy Skhosana, and her two brothers – Andile Skosana and Moemise Motsepe.
Hollywood actress, Lupita Nyong’o has done it again. The Kenyan actress who has been nominated for several awards, took home her first win after beating out Jennifer Lawrence to win the Best Supporting Actress category at the 2014 Critics’ Choice Awards.
And one again, the Mexican born actress has won another award as the Best Supporting Actress at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. The event took place on Saturday 18th January 2014 at the Los Angeles’ Shrine Exposition Center.
The 12 Years a Slave star beat Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Lawrence to receive the award.
See below, a full list of all the winners at SAG 2014
Cast in a motion picture:
American Hustle
Female actor in a leading role:
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Male actor in a leading role:
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Female actor in a supporting role:
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Male actor in a supporting role:
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Female actor in a comedy series:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Male actor in a comedy series:
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Ensemble in a comedy series:
Modern Family
Female actor in a TV movie or miniseries:
Helen Mirren, Phil Spector
Male actor in a TV movie or miniseries:
Michael Douglas, Behind the Candelabra
Female actor in a drama series:
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Male actor in a drama series:
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Since Nigeria signed it anti-gay rights bill, there has been a lot of media attention surrounding country and it’s gay rights bill. While a majority of Nigerians are in support of the bill, some have come out to condemn it.
Outside Nigeria, the UK and the European Union have expressed their disappointment towards the bill. In this video, Nigerian gay rights activist, Bisi Alimi speaks to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and talks about why he went on the Nigerian national TV to announce he was gay.
He also talked about leaving Nigeria to the UK due to his persecution after coming out about his sexuality, as well as the much discussed anti-gay bill that has been signed in by President Goodluck Jonathan.
If you are a young woman of African origin between the ages of 13-19 and would like to be Miss Teen Africa UK, then you are reading the right news.
Miss Teen Africa Pageant is a Beauty and Talent Pageant event to showcase young African women from the 56 Independent African countries.
Miss Teen Africa is the first beauty pageant to judge all the segments of beauty and talent such as physical presentation, etiquette, aptitude, knowledge of culture as well as general appeal including clothing and fashion without the use of nudity.
Miss Teen Africa Pageant is committed to taking the lead and promoting the growth and preservation of culture, gender equality, confidence, self worth, validity, women empowerment, social inclusion and a feeling of belonging between women of African descent all over the world.
The main objective of the beauty pageant is to support social cohesion, social inclusion, religious tolerance, proliferation of culture, education, as well as to empower young women of African heritage.
Every young woman that meets the criteria will be allowed to participate in the event. At the semi final stage, 25 contestants will be selected. This means 5 contestants from 5 regions and titles will be given for a continental queen whilst other title holders will be grouped into regional title sections based on country of origin/heritage.
Miss Teen Africa UK 2014 is now accepting entries via missteenafrica.com. You can also apply by sending a text message (costs same as a standard text) with the word K6KTA followed by your name and email address to 60777
