Nollywood diva, Rita Dominic had an interview with popular African channel, DSTV. In the interview, the actress talked about the first movie she co-produce “The Meeting” in which she was also the lead actress as well as how challenging it was.
Talking about the real Rita Dominic and Rita the actress as well as her skills in interpreting roles, the Nigerian A-list actress said, “I don’t want any traces of Rita Dominic when I assume a character.”
Rita also said she would like to work with Hollywood actors/actresses such as Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Angela Bassett, Merryl Streep, Denzel Washington, Will Smith and the late Audrey Hepburn (if she was still alive).
Nollywood Diva and 2013 Times 100 most influential personalities in the world, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde was on the Juice. The Nollywood actress talked about her recognition, her future music collaborations, embracing her full physique as a woman and so many more.
For Mariah Carey, the show must go on. The internationally known music diva did not allow her arm injury to interfere with her concert as she dresses her arm in a matching and glamorous arm sling.
“This is us being creative. We don’t wanna be seen in a sling.” Those were the words from the singer, Mariah Carey who was dressed in two separate matching dresses matching glamorous arm slings. The singer draped a giant feather wrap around her injured right arm.
“I am filming this for myself so that I can remember this moment,” she said as the white feather wrap was positioned. While some would have cancelled the concert because of their injury, Mariah Carey felt the show must go on.
Carey’s performance took place less than a week after she dislocated her shoulder and fractured a rib on the set of the video shoot for the hip-hop remix of the current single “#Beautiful. She took over the stage and performed some of her classic songs such as “Hero” and “Beautiful” as well as a track titled, Looking In.”
The diva performed in Central Park as part of the MLB Sandy Relief concert which helped raise money for the victims of last year’s Hurricane Sandy. She performed while wearing a glamorous arm sling to match her look.
What do you think of Mariah Carey’s glamorous arm sling? Did you think it is as chic and fashionable as we think? Let us know your view regarding how the single has style her attire to make her attire match up with her hand/arm accident. We can’t wait to see what you think regarding the singer’s look.
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Every girl loves to experiment with different nail polish colours, especially with favourites Essie and Orly, but these apparently can cause more damage than good especially when we want to change our manicure every so often. Nail polish is definitely hard to remove and the chemical components of nail polish remover can make our nails brittle, dry and worst of all, ugly as hell. Don’t let your digits fret, there’s this ingenious product that Beyonce, Rihanna and Katy Perry are sporting right now on the red carpet. Aptly called nail wraps these babies are like stickers for your nails and the designs available are limitless.
Speciality brands like Minx and well-known beauty brands like Maybelline and L’oreal have recently launched their versions and designs. It’s also no surprise that you’ve heard from your friends about Foxy Furnails. When you love purple and bingo, you can dress up your digits with these easy to use nail wraps while you play. Even if you’re just sitting at home in your pyjamas playing bingo, your nails will still look fabulous and glamorous. Plus, you now know how Beyonce kicks it when she’s relaxing at home. You can also organise a nail wrapping session with your girlfriends and learn how to apply these awesome wraps.
You don’t need to see a nail technician to apply nail wraps because you can do them easily by yourself and it will only take a little bit of practice. The first step in applying these is to make sure you apply them on clean nails without any trace of nail polish residue. It’s also best to file and buff your nails. Apply the nail wrap and place them securely on your nail and then heat it with your hairdryer. File off the excess wrap and there you have it. Although it may take a few tries to get it perfect, heating them thoroughly is the secret for your wraps to last long and stay intact.
Corruption is so systemic in Zimbabwe, one of Africa’s poorest countries, that a local hospital charges mothers-to-be $5 each time they scream during childbirth. That’s according to an extensive new report from Transparency International on corruption around the world, which also notes that a staggering 62 percent of Zimbabweans say they’ve paid a bribe in the past year.
The $5 hospital screaming fee, purportedly a charge for “raising false alarm” but clearly aimed at separating mothers from their money, is no joke. Gross domestic product per capita is only $500 in Zimbabwe; average annual income per person is about $150. Zimbabwean hospitals also charge a $50 delivery fee. This means that, in a country where underemployment is 95 percent and poverty is rife, a mother who screams a few times during delivery might owe half her annual income after giving birth.
According to a follow-up by Transparency International, women who can’t afford the high fees are sometimes detained at the hospital and charged interest until their family can pay up. As a result, many Zimbabwean mothers give birth at home because they can’t afford the charges. The United Nations reports that, on average, eight mothers die during childbirth every single day in Zimbabwe.
Transparency International says its Zimbabwe office contacted the national health ministry about the issue by sending, as such offices often require, a formal letter. The health ministry said it had received the letter, then apparently did nothing, and when the NGO followed up an official told the organization that they had lost the letter. Finally, a member of Transparency International was able to meet with Zimbabwe’s deputy prime minister, who promised to look into. Since then, the NGO says, it’s heard no more complaints about screaming charges – although the $50 delivery charge, impossibly expensive for many in Zimbabwe, remains.
Miss Ebonyi and Miss Gombe are officially out of the 2013 edition of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) competition. This leaves 32 contestants in the race to be crowned the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2013.
Ujunwa Amanda Onwudilo, the 22-year-old contestant representing Ebonyi state decided not to go further in the competition, citing personal reasons, while Miss Gombe 23 year old Ifunanya Nledo was asked to leave for failing to meet with the stipulated requirements by Silverbird Productions.
The Miss Nigeria beauty pageant has come and gone and Ezinne Akudo was chosen as the winner of the title. Now another beauty pageant is about to take place, the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria (MBGN) beauty contest.
The Most Beautiful girl in Nigeria, popularly known as MBGN is a beauty contest organised by Silverbird Group. Its main purpose is to select a winner that will represent Nigeria at the international beauty pageant. The Beauty pageant was formerly known as Miss Universe Nigeria when it started in 1983. Three years later (1986), its name was changed to the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria.
Below are the contestants that will represent the 36 states in Nigeria.
The organisers of Loving Your Curves, are proud to announce that Nikki Gomez will be the host of the bridal event. Loving Your Curves is the first UK event to provide a platform for plus size bridal designers to showcase their designs.
The event, which will take place on the 21st and 22nd of September 2013 will consists of an expo or wedding fair. to know more about the loving your curves event, visit this link.
A Nigerian writer, Tope Folarin has won the Caine Writing Prize award 2013. The US based writer was shortlisted among three other Nigerian writers and a Sierra Leonean. A total of 96 entries from 96 African countries were received and the judges chose five of them as the finalists.
The other writers and their novels are, NigeriansElnathan John (‘Bayan Layi’), Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (‘The Whispering’), Chinelo Okparanta (‘America’), and Tope Folarin (‘Miracle’), and SierraLeonean Pede Hollist (‘Foreign Aid’)
Tope emerged as the winner for his short story, “Miracle.” A story about Nigerian evangelical church in Texas and how Nigerian pastors are giving Nigerian diaspora in the US hope.
Tope received the sum of £10,000 ($15,000) at an event that held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Last year’s Caine Writing Prize award was also won by a Nigerian writer, Rotimi Babatunde. His book “Bombay’s Republic” talked about Nigerian soldiers who fought in the Burma campaign during World War II.
From left to write: Nigerians Elnathan John, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Chinelo Okparanta, and Tope Folarin and Sierra Leonean Pede Hollist
Shortly before Tope Folarin was announced the winner of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing, he and the other four short-listed writers were on BBC Africa to talk about their novels, expectations and more. The picture above was taken at the BBC studio.
For the first time in two decades, Italian luxury designer, Prada has cast a black model as part of its Autumn/Winter 2013 campaign. The model, Malaika Firth was born in Kenyan and raised in the U.K.
Malaika, 19, will work with six other models in a new campaign for Prada. Some of the well known models she will be working with are Christy Turlington (American) and Chinese model Fei Fei Sun.
The last time the Italian brand casted a black modelwas in 1994 when super mode, Naomi Campbell, made a runway appearance with the brand.
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