Flavour Premiers MC Loph Tribute Video – ‘Iwe’

Indigenous singer Flavour N’abania has released a new tribute video to the late MC Loph who recently lost his life in car accident as he was driving down to the Eastern part of Nigeria, along the Benin/Ore road on Wednesday, September 14, 2011.
Until his death, MC Loph and Flavour remained best of friends. It was Flavour that laced the superb hook of the late rapper’s smash hit – the remix of Late Osita Osadebe’s ‘Osondi Owendi’.
MC Loph along with his sister Chinwe, who also lost her life in the tragic accident were buried on Friday, October 28, 2001 at his family’s compound in Ugwuaro, Anambra State.
The video show a solemn Flavour reminisce about his friendship with the late rapper…
Watch after the cut

Amstel Malta ShowTime

Its time out with Amstel Malta............@ UNILAG

Baba Suwe Drug Mess: Mosun Filani Denied UK Visa

The Yoruba film actress and producer was denied UK visa last week following what insiders say have a lot to do with the arrest of one of her colleagues, Baba Suwe, over dug trafficking allegations. The British Embassy followed the Baba Suwe drug mess saga keenly and wanted to see the outcome before giving out visas.

Hope this doesn't become a trend, where everyone else pays for one person's mistake.

Between Liz Garvy and Dencia

This is kinda like stale news...it happened like two weeks ago, but just in case you missed it...then enjoy...:-)

So Liz Garvy, a well known fashion entrepreneur with a few boutiques in Lagos, got into a nasty girl fight with former friend, upcoming Cameroonian singer and us-based video model, Dencia, at the bathroom of the Eko Hotel, venue of the Headies Award which held last month. The physical altercation which saw Dencia almost stripped naked was the outcome of a friendship gone sour. 

Basically what happened was that Dencia went around telling people that Liz stole $20, 000 from her when she visited her house in the US last year. Liz was furious about the allegations and was waiting for a confrontation. They met at the Headies Award and all hell broke loose.

A few days after the fight, Liz Garvy released her version of what happened between them. Read it after the cut...

THE FIRST KISS AND ALL THE FANFARE AT FUNKE FOWLER AND ABI KUKU'S ENGAGEMENT CEREMONY

Abi Kuku and Funke Fowler

29th of October 2011, the date of Abi Kuku and Funke Fowler's Traditional Engagement ceremony, was firm in the diaries of Lagos party go-ers. It was probably the most hyped ceremony in Lagos in a while...Every one of my friends and their siblings and their own friends and their friends, friends...( you get my drift?) were there and the Fowler and Kuku Families were prepared to receive the whole of Lagos if they had turned up in two massive marquees set on the grounds of Tafawa Balewa Square

It was a 'Superb Lagos Shindig' and by all standards a classy engagement ceremony. The Bride and Groom looked resplendent in champagne and gold and guests rose to the occasion  looking fabulous in their 'master-planned outfits' but no one could steal the Bride's shine..She looked absolutely stunning! Check more photos below

LIZ JONES FASHION THERAPY

A new website promises to be your virtual stylist - and always get your size right - but I say… nothing beats real shopping!

A decade ago, I went to a fashion conference in Paris. Glenda Bailey, then editor of U.S. Marie Claire and now editor of Harper’s Bazaar, gave a lecture.
She had lots of whizzy slide shows to demonstrate that, one day, women would buy their clothes online, even click on an internet page of a magazine and voila!
We heckled, we laughed. Bah! It will never, ever happen. But it did, of course, and buying clothes and accessories online is the fastest growing sector in the marketplace.

Just not me: How Liz would look in outfits suggested by the dressipi.co.uk - none of which Liz would choose to put on her shopping list

It’s easy and almost instantaneous. We can shop late at night or at work. We can browse through thousands of clothes when, on the real High Street, we would have long since given up.
So shopping online can work. But there is one huge drawback: often, the clothes arrive and they are not quite right. They don’t fit, are too long or the colour is not quite what we expected.

Boko Haram Plans Fresh Attacks In Abuja, says US Embassy

As Nigerians continue to count the number of lives lost to series of bombs, suicide and gun attacks by members of Boko Haram militant Islamic sect in Yobe and Borno State in Nigeria’s Northeast last Friday, the US Embassy has alerted its citizens that the deadly Islamic group may strike in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

Suspected members of Boko Haram who allegedly bombed INEC Office in Suleja being arraigned at Magistrate's Court Abuja on Tuesday .

In a press release in Abuja on Sunday, the US Embassy specifically mentioned Transcorp  Hilton, Nicon Luxury and Sheraton hotels as possible targets of the fundamentalist sect.

“Following the recent Boko Haram, aka Nigerian Taliban, attacks in Borno and Yobe State, the U.S. Embassy has received information that Boko Haram may plan to attack several locations and hotels in Abuja, Nigeria, during the Sallah holiday.  Potential targets may include the Nicon Luxury, the Sheraton Hotel, and the Transcorp Hilton Hotel”, said the Embassy.

The three hotels are heavily patronised by high government officials, diplomats and politicians. The hotels are also favourable venues for high scale events.

Though the Embassy did not specifically mentioned the likely day or the time of the attack, it however said it may occur even as the country celebrates the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha.The Embassy therefore warned its diplomats and staff had been instructed to avoid those hotels:  “All U.S. Government personnel have been instructed to avoid these locations, and previously scheduled events have been cancelled.

American citizens should expect additional police and military checkpoints, additional security, and possible road blocks in Abuja for the foreseeable future”.

Meanwhile,  Ibrahim Bulama, a Nigerian Red Cross official has said the number of lives lost to Boko Haram attacks in Damaturu,  Yobe State may top 100 after hospitals and clinics complete the tabulation victims of the attack even as it was learnt that the radical sect killed a police officer who was on his way to prayer ground in Maiduguri today. There have been condemnations of last Friday’s Boko Haram attacks.

The U. N Security Council, in a statement issued on behalf of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the attacks in the cities of Damaturu and Maiduguri as “criminal and unjustifiable”.

The Organisation asked it members to help Nigerian authorities bring the perpetrators of the attacks to justice while calling for “an end to all violence in the area and offering sympathy for the victims. Also, Pope Benedict XVI who told tourists that he is following events in Nigeria called for an end to all violence, saying it only increases problems, sowing hatred and division even among the faithful.

N’Delta ex-militants threaten renewed attacks in 14 days

Niger Delta militant

 Some Niger Delta militant groups that surrendered their arms under the Federal Government’s amnesty programmes have threatened to resume attacks within 14 days.

 

The groups threatened that unless their demands were met in two weeks, they would specifically target platforms that were important to the "survival of the Nigerian economy."

The warlords accused the Federal Government of a failure to pay their monthly allowance and condemned the "deliberate refusal of the Mr. Kingsley Kuku-led Presidential Amnesty Committee to recognise those who had submitted their arms under the amnesty programme. Kuku is the Presidential Adviser on Amnesty Programme."

The ex-warlords under the Forum of All Ex-militant Leaders met on Saturday in a location in the creeks and later issued a statement. Their followers were also said to have been in attendance at the meeting. The forum is led by ‘General’ Gift Tare of the Iduwini Volunteer Force.

In a statement issued by the Forum at the end of the meeting, the leaders of the groups, who described themselves as ‘Generals,’ urged government to pay the regular monthly allowances of militants who had dropped their arms.

"Except these modest requests are granted within the next 14 days, the Presidential Amnesty Committee should be ready for more face-off and violent confrontations," the statement reads.

Kuku had dismissed the protesters as disgruntled youths who were bent on derailing the amnesty programme. He had also insisted that the youths from the Niger Delta, who were currently agitating, did not submit their arms before the closure of the amnesty window.

The statement says the meeting, which lasted over six hours, "critically reviewed the amnesty programme, the nonchalant attitude of the implementers, the double standard applied to various ex-militants from various ethnic nationalities and preference to fighters of some selected ‘Generals’."

They said they had resolved to employ the "instrument of violence" since the authorities had ignored their agitation.

The group said, "Since the Mr. Kingsley Kuku-led Presidential Amnesty Committee has decided to turn this well-thought out peace initiative of our departed President and Apostle of peace, the late Alhaji Musa Umaru Yar ‘adua into his private and family business, everything, including violent confrontation should be adopted to correct this deliberate act of one of our own, who has today turned himself into an oppressor of sorts.

"That the Federal Government should urgently probe the Presidential Amnesty Committee as we have facts and figures to show that several persons who are not even recognised ex-militants are not only benefitting from the programme, but are today deciding the fate and destiny of known ex-fighters and patriots of the Niger Delta emancipation."