Wedding Dresses, Artistic Cakes & Festive Decorations! Photos from WED Expo 2013

By Jennifer Obiuwevbi

It was all excitement at the recently concluded 2013 edition of the WED Expo. Over 150 exhibitors and visitors swarmed the venue Landmark Village Oniru, Victoria Island from all over to view and display the wedding themed goods and services.
From event planners, decorators and bridal wear designers to caterers, photographers and event managers, the 4 day event offered a wide variety of stands to visit. There was also hotel and weekend getaways from the official Hotel partner Starwood Hotels and Resorts as well as Swift modems from the official internet partners.
The organizer of the event Akin Eso of WED Magazine commented that the next edition of the larger than life wedding event will feature some of the exhibitors present in this edition as well as new vendors, so there’s a lot to look out for.
Are you in Abuja? WED Expo is coming to you. In September 2013 the residents of Abuja will have tho opportunity to attend the biggest wedding exhibition in Nigeria; WED Expo 2013 (Abuja Edition) so mark your calendars.
Watch videos of the event that was and check out photos of the exhibition.
For enquirers and more Information email: wedexpo@thewedmagazine.com | Call 07001111933 | Visit ww.wedexpo.com.ng
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Brunch, Cocktails, Masterclasses & Free Make-Up Trials At L’Espace This Sunday – 7th April 2013

By 9janewsreel.com
Party with L’Espace this Sunday – 7th April, 2013 for the official launch the Beauty Bar and Café Lumiere.
Their host for the day, the fabulous beauty expert – Ez of Beauty in Lagos (www.beautyinlagos) will be present to meet and greet with all beauty lovers and will be conducting a masterclass where she will be sharing some of her favourite beauty secrets. Want to know how to colour-match your skin to a foundation/powder? Or how to detect where the arch in your eyebrow should be? Then, be sure to join Ez at 2pm.
There will also be a Beauty Helpdesk managed by House of Tara expert MUA Rhema who will be there to answer  all your beauty questions and concerns. Don’t miss the make-up tutorial session that starts at 4pm and Oh! There will be free make-up trials ALL day!
At the Café, the chef will be treating guests to a special brunch buffet. You can expect a selection of delicious freshly baked pastries and some of the Cafe’s signature dishes… Like the sound of “Pasta a la Fid”? Or “Sweet potato mash and chicken in a savoury green pepper sauce”? Well, don’t just fantasize about it, have a try on Sunday! And while you are at it, sip on on their signature fashion cocktails of the day!
Date: Sunday 7th April, 2013
Time: 10:30am – 8pm
Venue: 19a Olosa Street, off Karimu Kotun, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Sounds like fun! So go with a friend, a troupe if you must, the more the merrier!
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Omawumi Feat. Wizkid – Warn Yourself

Omawumi‘s concert is just around the corner. And, with her new album, “Lasso of Truth” still making ripples across the airwaves, here’s a little teaser of what the album has to offer – “Warn Yourself” featuring Wizkid, produced by Sarz.

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Omawumi‘s concert is just around the corner. And, with her new album, “Lasso of Truth” still making ripples across the airwaves, here’s a little teaser of what the album has to offer – “Warn Yourself” featuring Wizkid, produced by Sarz.

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Knorr Taste Quest winner emerges on Sunday

 

This Sunday, April 7, will see the top three finalists of the Knorr Taste Quest battle to see who will emerge as the winner of the competition. The last episode saw Gregory Owie evicted, leaving ifeyinwa Mogekwu, Lalu Surdiham and Patricia Allison as the top three contestants on the show.

For the semi final task, the contestants were given a range of vegetarian and meat ingredients which included; Shaki, Bran flakes, Digestive biscuits, Chicken sausage, Vegetarian sausage, Ugwu, and Broccoli to make 8 taster meals or appetizers.

  

After 1 hour 30 minutess of cooking time all the judges unanimously praised Patricia's meal as she took them on a journey to experience taster meals from different continents. Gregory's meal on the other hand was declared unexciting and disappointing, while Ifeyinwa and Lalu's meals got lukewarm reviews. Gregory was hence evicted by the judges.   

The fates of the top three contestants are in the hands of the judges. All three are very strong contenders and it’s hard to predict who will clinch the top prize.

Apart from the Star Prize of a 2013 Hyundai Elantra and One million naira, the second position goes away with a whopping One million naira, while the third position will go home with Five hundred thousand naira. Kitchen equipments worth N 300,000 will also be given to the last three contestants.  Be sure to catch the grand finale on Sunday on these stations at the following times: ONTV- 6.30-7.30PM, Galaxy TV- 8.00pm-9.00pm, Startimes(CH 123)- 8.00pm-9.00pm, Silverbird TV- 8.00pm-9.00pm, AIT- 9.00pm-10.00pm. For those outside Lagos, it will be showing on Ondo TV- 8.00-9.00PM, BCOS TV- 8.00pm-9.00pm, ABS TV- 8.00pm-9.00pm, Crossriver TV- 8.00pm-9.00pm, and Delta Asaba- 8.00pm-9.00pm.

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Is all back to normal?

Has Wizkid swallowed the bitter pill and returned home? These are some of the questions readers have asked us, since photos of the singer with EME signees Shaydee and  DJ Xclusive surfaced online.

Apparently, the trio who were escorted by a Hum-vee and security escorts drove down to Cotonou, Benin Republic for a music show going down tonight (April 5) happily took pictures 0f themselves as they journeyed to the neighbouring country.

‘Cotonou , we here! @djxclusive83 @shaydeeboi !! EME/STARBOY!!‘, Wizkid wrote as he posted a picture of himself, Shaydee and DJ Xclusive as soon as they landed Benin.

After the rumoured split from Banky W and parent record label EME, Wizkid went on to start up his own music label Star Boi Entertainment not long after he controversially declared his ‘freedom’ over social network Twitter. Don’t forget his absence from the stage at Banky’s ‘The Grand Love Project’ concert.

While fans and critics pondered on the situation, both parties tried to stay clear of the press and on rare occasions where they were cornered to speak about the situation, they assured fans everything was okay.

While Banky continued to assure fans that Wizzy was still a part of the EME family, Wizzy was less bothered, shooting videos without the EME emblem appearing in them. Wizzy later explained that he had started his own label but was still ‘part of the family.’

Insiders at the EME camp tell us the whole brouhaha started as a result of money issues; Wizkid was said to have suddenly ‘woken up’ and wanted a better deal than what the label was offering…

We guess they might have reached a reasonable conclusion and Wizzy is once again hoisted his EME flag…?

Basketmouth completes multi million Naira home for his mum

While snooping around about the Insignia car the comedian recently acquired, I found out something else he's been trying to keep secret. Basketmouth recently completed a multi million Naira home for his mum. The house is located in a really nice estate here in Lagos. Madam Okpocha has since moved into the house. Wow! #betterpikinthinz

‘I don’t have a name for my album yet’ – Tiwa Savage

Some weeks back, Tiwa Savage was interviewed on ‘Saturday Nite‘ aired on NTA 2 Lagos.

The R&B-Pop act discusses her achievements in the past year, how her forthcoming debut album will comprise of different genres of music and more.

‘I don’t have a name for my album yet‘, she says. She also disclosed that she wouldn’t be featuring ‘a lot of artistes on the album’ because she would want her personality and style to dominate the album.

Tiwa has released five singles so far and has promised the album will be released in 2013.

Rapper Eva writes touching tribute to Goldie

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How do i begin this? It is already too difficult to talk about you using words like ‘Was’ when i really want to say ‘is’ and ‘Would have been’ when my heart whispers ‘Would be’.

This is absolute insanity. How one minute you are here, vibrant, happy, excited about all the work you have mapped out for 2013. How you stayed cheering me on, telling me how you admire me, how you want to be there to help, you stoop low enough till I can hop on your back and bear my weight on your shoulders, regardless of the luggage you already have on yours.

Isn’t it ironic how everyone hated you for this and that, when all you ever wanted to do was entertain them. What’s sad? They still have something bad to say even in your absence. I am sad! You were here before me, and when i stepped my skinny legs in this wicked place to explore my music, You were one of the few out doing something different. You stood out like yolks stand out of egg whites.

How you handled this evil, self-centred, ‘I-have-only-bad-things-to-say’ people for as long as you did is what baffles me.

You exhibited such strength, such outstanding emotional stamina that it seemed like you could do all wrong in their eyes and still stand, here, entertaining us from the bottom of your heart.

We had a conversation to finish Goldie! Remember? Now i feel like i would never be able to tell you what really happened contrary to what everyone thinks. I remember the last time i saw you, you were so mad at me for not telling you about me leaving the Label. And with good reason too! You hooked it all up didn’t you? So Goldie. Always ready to help. Sad when your friends are sad.

You said to me ‘Ehnnn? Eva you are not signed? Isssaalie! Are they blind? Let me talk to —- for you sharp sharp. He just got this new deal mehhnn, you must rock it oh. I won’t stop disturbing him till he signs you.’

And off you went! You took it upon yourself to make sure your friend asked me to sign with his label. And how so stupid I was not to have told you first the minute shit hit the fan. I hope the little I was able to explain to you was of any good. (sigh)

All that is gone now.

Even you are gone. Life is Crazy.

I am grateful today, that I had the pleasure of working with you Goldie boo, traveling, touring, doing shows with you. I loved you from day one! Fresh into the university and without a clue what I wanted from life, there you were on my TV screen doing what most women didn’t dare. Even I didn’t understand you at first.

But I understood this one fact ‘You were YOU!’ And it hit me right there. I finally realized what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to be me. ME! Without a care in the world what ‘they’ say as long as I am me. No compromise.

You didn’t just inspire and motivate me, you have kept me here.

If it wasn’t a phone call to find out if i was okay, it was a BB message to make me laugh my heart out.

My Dear Goldie, My sister, My friend…. I cannot ever answer the question why but I know that God never works without purpose. So i am not going to ask why either.

I am going through a lot right now, this is one of those times we would have had a BB conversation and you would have put my worrying mind at ease. But then I think about it, like you always noted, ‘I haven’t even scraped the surface of what you have’.

All the times you cried and carried the pain in your heart like an artery, all the times you thought about giving it all up and let your tears flood up your pillows like rain, they didn’t see that. Yet the little they saw they hated. They mocked. Their shallow minds could not comprehend it. 95 per cent of these are the same who have turned around now in your passing to offer words of kindness that you longed for while you were here. Haha !isn’t it amazing how they suddenly see how creative your videos were? Nwannem! Odikwa very strong tin!

Hmmmm….

You are gone now my love, as much as it kills me to type that out, I have to face it. If you are sitting on the right side of God our father, please beg him and intercede on my behalf while I Pray. As I go through the sort of things that you did, as I struggle to become somebody my parents are proud of, as I face this wicked place and its wicked people all by myself, as I say Goodbye to Friends who have become Foes overnight, as I stand in the midst of people who hate me for no reason and take it upon themselves like a day job to bring me down, intercede on my behalf dear Goldie. May the Lord answer my prayers…the same sort you prayed while you were here.

Thank you for letting me into your world even for a short time. What great blessing it is to have known the real you, the soft, kind-hearted, always-ready-for-a-good-laugh beautiful girl that you were.

I’m too sad.

Rest in Peace my friend, in the beautiful wonders of everlasting eternity where no one judges you.