A photo of Omotola Jalade with Arianna Huffington at TIME 100 Gala 2013 in New York. Arianna Huffington is the President and Editor-in-Chief of the Huffignton Post Media Group.
Prior to attending the TIME 100 Gala, Omotola was seen celebrating her achievement as one of TIME’s most influential people with other Nigerians who live in New York.
Below are other photos of the Nollywood actress as she jets from Lagos to New York to attend the 2013 TIME 100 Gala.
A photo of Omotola as she celebrates TIME 100 with Nigerians in New York. The party was organised by Nigerians in New York to congratulate her achievement as one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world.
The beautiful Nollywood actress will join others at the TIME 100 Gala that will be taking place tonight at the Lincoln Center.
Last week, the Nigerian actress was named as an icon in TIME’s 100 most influential people list for the 2013 edition.
Two men were arrested and paraded by officers of the Nigerian army for allegedly raping a woman and demanding an N10 million ransom from her. The incident took place in Effurun, a township area in Warri, Delta State.
According to the Commanding Officer 3 Battalion, Nigeria Army, Lieutenant Colonel Ifeanyi, the young men allegedly kidnapped a staff of Petroleum Training Institute, Warri, took her to an undisclosed hotel, raped her, took photographs of the act and threatened to release same if not paid N10 million.
Rape and kidnapping are increasing becoming frequent in Nigeria. In another incident that took place in Bonny Island last year, some young Nigerian men were apprehended by the Nigerian army for raping and burying a young woman alive.
ALSO SEE: The UK To Deport Convicted Nigerian Rapist.
Below is the video of the men that were apprehended by the army.
Shocking Video! A Nigerian woman was raped and buried alive in Bonny Island, Rivers State. This incident took place in 2012 and the video was uploaded to YouTube on October 13.
The culprits were fortunately apprehended by the Nigerian army who went with them to exhume the young lady from the place she was buried. The body was exhumed 12 hours after the incident took place.
See the video below. It is very graphic, watch only if you can handle it.
Booty-tastic! was what was written on the British Got Talent YouTube channel. As the girls shook their bum during week two of British Got Talent Audition.
British-African dancing group, CEO Dancers were on Britain’s Got Talent (BGT) and danced to Iyanya’s Kukere” and Dbanj’s “Oliver Twist”. CEO Dancers is an all female dance group made up of two Nigerian and a South African.
This Episode is week two of the BGT. The grouped performed so well that Simon that the judges faces could not stay stiff for long. Some where shaking their head while others where moving their hands to the upbeat rhythm. The girls are now up to the next round.
Enjoy the video below.
Nigerian musician and international artist, D’ban, has released a new music titled, ”WHY YOU LOVE ME.” The song is part of his forthcoming DKM album.
Enjoy listening below!
Are you Loving Your Curves? Most mainstream bridal designers do not cater for the needs of plus size women. On the other hand, designers who do, have no dedicated platform to exhibit designs and services dedicated to the needs of plus size brides.
To change this trend, Kemi Faqurhason, a UK bridal designer for plus size women has launched “Loving Your Curves.” The UK’s first bridal exhibition to provide a platform that bring various plus size designers and services provider together.
Speaking about the first exhibition dedicated to fuller-figured brides, Kemi Fuquharson said, “as a plus size bridal designer I exhibit at a number of wedding shows. A lot of the feedback I received highlighted the frustration of some curvy brides finding plus size wedding dresses at shows, so I decided to create the platform.”
“It was also important to be to have health, beauty and lifestyle elements that were not necessarily appropriate for a wedding show so I created a combined event for plus size women, an Expo & Wedding fair all about curves,” Kemi added.
If you are a plus size designer, caterer, or offer any other bridal services and need a platform to showcase your business, you can visit this link to register your participation.
For brides to be, wedding planners, and those who need inspiration and contact from people in the industry, you can visit this link to get your ticket.
The Loving Your Curves exhibition will be taking place on the day, time and place below;
Apart from the show itself, the organisers have lined up a host of activities to engage participants before the main event in September.
Fuller Figured Expo
According to the organizers it is an Exciting, Educating and Empowering weekend all about Curves. The Fuller Figured Expo is alleged to be all about Curves on the Catwalk, Workshops, Plus Size and Fashion Vendors as well as the Curvy Beauty Lounge.
Curvy Brides
The Curvy Bride event is a “unique and exciting Wedding Fair for the Curvy Brides-2-be. Featuring the very best in wedding suppliers, from Plus Size Wedding Dresses to Bespoke Wedding Rings we have carefully selected the UK’s finest exhibitors to help you plan your special day,” Organisers.
Kemi hopes to organise a smooth and interactive event for her exhibitors and attendees. According to her, “I am expecting to put on a great event all about curves. That the event will go smoothly and that the attendees, designers and business will all have a wonderful time interacting and engaging.”
By Gloria
Make some noise with these loud and colourful patterned prints. If you love the ankara African print fabric, you’ll surely love these loud, bold and colourful print outfits from the Alexander Mcqueen Fall/Winter 2013 menswear collection. These bold prints and other pieces from the Alexander McQueen fall 2013 menswear collection were successfully introduced by Sarah Burton at the London Fashion Week show.
Some of the print pieces come with matching patterned shoes to make sure you’re really loud enough in them and get noticed in any gathering. Check out some more pieces from the colourful and bold Alexander Mcqueen Fall/Winter 2013 menswear collection and pick up some of your favourite. You can also get inspiration from these pieces and use them to make your own very custom ankara African print attire.
SEE ALSO: Short Sleeve Ankara Accented Men’s Shirt.
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Times Annual list of the most Time Most Influential Personalities is out and guess who is on 2013 list? Nollywood actress, Omosexy. The Nigerian actress was named “the Queen of Nollywood” by TIME Magazine.
The TIME 100 Icon list organise the list in 5 different categories such as artists, leaders, icons, pioneers and titans. Nollywood’s Omotola Jalade was listed among the icons. Below is what the Corliss, a movie critic for TIME wrote about her.
The world’s most productive English-language film industry is not Hollywood but Nollywood. The teeming Nigerian cinema grinds out some 2,500 movies a year, mostly direct-to-DVD quickies mixing melodrama, music and an evangelical Christian spin. (Think Bollywood via Tyler Perry.) Employing a million Nigerians, Nollywood
The world’s most productive English-language film industry is not Hollywood but Nollywood. The teeming Nigerian cinema grinds out some 2,500 movies a year, mostly direct-to-DVD quickies mixing melodrama, music and an evangelical Christian spin. (Think Bollywood via Tyler Perry.) Employing a million Nigerians, Nollywood enthrals millions more who come for the thrills, the uplift and the artful agitations of Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde — the Queen of Nollywood.
Called OmoSexy by her fans, she has made 300 or so features, from the 1996 Mortal Inheritance to the 2010 superb production Ijé, shot partly on location in Los Angeles. Married to an airline pilot she wed on a flight from Lagos to Benin, Jalade-Ekeinde brings a juggler’s grace to her roles as actress, singer, reality-show star, mother of four and philanthropist (the Omotola Youth Empowerment Programme).
Success hasn’t spoiled Africa’s most renowned leading lady. Rather than going Hollywood, Omotola wants to stay Nollywood.
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Below is the complete list of those that were listed in the same categories as the Nollywood actress,
Congrats @RealOmosexy for this recognition.
To see the complete list, visit this link.
Three men were forcibly removed from an annual culture festival in Saudi Arabia and subsequently sent back to the UAE after it was deemed that women could find them irresistible.
The delegates from the United Arab Emirates were in attendance at the Jenadrivah Heritage & Culture Festival in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, when religious police officers stormed the stand and evicted the men because “they are too handsome,” according to the Arabic language newspaper, Elaph.
“A festival official said the three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds they are too handsome and that the Commission [for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices] members feared female visitors could fall for them,” Elaph reported.
The UAE released an official statement indicating that the religious police were anxious over the unexpected presence of an unnamed female artist in the pavilion.
Are there any good looking Africans and Nigerian’s in Saudi Arabia? If there are, you can leave a comment below in regards to this news.
