Anniversaries worldwide are times to look backwards, meditate, re-strategize and plan ahead. With only 33 days to our country’s 50th anniversary, Coca-Cola Nigeria envisaged a blissful new Nigeria. The world’s largest beverage company stretched its ‘Open Happiness’ campaign to include a consumer promo designed to splash over N300 million on Nigerians as part of its [...]
Professor Chukwuemeka Ike, was the first Nigerian Registrar of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), which he joined in the 70s when he finished his 10 months assignment as the first Vice Chancellor of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, after the civil war. While in WAEC, he broke a record as the first Registrar of WAEC [...]
President Barack Obama didn’t want this weekend’s getaway to Florida’s Gulf Coast to be a repeat of past beach trips, where the media spent days commenting on his toned physique. When press photographers snapped the president elect baring his upper torso during a Hawaii beach vacation in late 2008, for instance, Webby pandemonium ensued. But [...]
The relevance of the movie profession in the effort toward realization of peace and harmony in Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. One of those that made that relevancy a reality is Charles Olumo, the Abeokuta-born prominent Yoruba artist that has successfully spent 54 years showcasing Yoruba culture through movies. The 83-year-old man, popularly called Agbako, the [...]
Someone has released a Naked Picture claiming to be the popular Mo-Hit’s Wande Coal sleeping drunk after being set nude by friends, the image leakage has become a talk of twitter and infact has added more followers to his name, more people are trooping into twitter to be a part of this, we have had [...]
That which she declined to divulge in an interview she granted this Vanguard’s Lolade Sowoolu has been brought to the open. MTV’s Nigerian VJ, Cynthia Okpala is now officially engaged to good-looking hubby, Ozoemena Mbanefo. The pair are both members of the Dominion City church located on 11/13 Jumat Olukoya street, Ogudu, Ojota, Lagos. Ozoemena [...]
Actress Mercy Johnson who was reportedly in a showdown with her older colleague, Patience Ozokwor on location in Asaba few weeks back, has blamed her uncontrollable outburst on Ozokwor’s repeated utterances referring to her as an ‘ashawo’- a hoochie. In a telephone interview, Mercy recounted her side of the story. She noted that Patience Ozokwor [...]
P-Squared Wins One Million Dollars as African Best in Kora music awards Nigerian R&B duo P-Square were crowned Africa’s best in the recent Kora music awards held in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, attended by some 3,000 people including the country’s president. The twins Paul and Peter who form P-Square beat Senegalese group Black Diamond, Angola’s [...]
“Genevieve Nnaji is my girlfriend; she’s my everything” – D’banj Dbanj and Genevieve, that is the latest from the Nigerian entertainment scene. Below is an excerpt of an interview of Dbanj by a reporter for Encomium Magazine: You were spotted secretly and publicly at different places with Genevieve Nnaji and we heard you both are [...]
Dr Murray has denied he caused Michael Jackson’s death Los Angeles prosecutors will file a criminal case against Michael Jackson’s doctor on Monday in connection with the singer’s death, officials say. Dr Conrad Murray’s legal team says it expects him to be charged with involuntary manslaughter. The announcement came shortly before the doctor had planned [...]
Super Eagles’ defender Joseph Yobo in the early hours on the new year’s day took former Miss Nigeria, Adaeze Igwe to the altar at the Evangelical Bible Out reach Ministries International (EBOMI) prayer city in Jos. The General Overseer of EBOMI Prayer City, Prophet Isah El Buba while officiating at the early morning wedding which [...]
Actress Caroline Johnson, who was down with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (cancer of the blood), and received overwhelming support before, during and after her operation in India, has died. The mother of three, who acted as Uju in popular Christian soap ‘Heaven’s Gate’, passed on at 5:30PM last Wednesday, after suffering a relapse. Her husband Tony [...]
Brittany Murphy died yesterday (20th December 2009) after she went into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived. She was 32. A 911 call was made at 8:00 AM from a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack, the Los Angeles City Fire Department said.
Faze, Kel, Zaaki Adzzay and Faithia Balogun are all up for eviction as the celebrity takes 2 enters the third episode this weekend. Former Plantashun Boyz, Faze and touch_bearing Zaaki Adzzay got 15 points each while R & B rap artiste, Kel and popular Yoruba_film actress, Faithia Balogun both received 13 points. On the overall [...]
On Tuesday, the 8th of December, The Future Awards released its much_awaited list of nominees for the 2010 edition of the awards. “It’s a rich list!” said Emilia Asim_Ita, the awards’ PR Director. “I am so proud of it; it took two months of gruelling work and research, but I look at the list of [...]
Having successfully captured and shared the exploits of Nigerian men within and outside our shores for three solid years, the Mode Men team is poised to organise the second edition of its annual men of the year award ceremony. It aims at celebrating men who have profoundly affected lives in the society within the current [...]
Hostilities, intrigues and drama as celebrity artistes don their dancing shoes in the race to determine the best celebrity dancer in this year Celebrity Takes 2 reality show. The battle lines have been drawn as contestants are not leaving any stone unturned to come up with their best performances as the competition entered its third [...]
About Five hundred million people around the world last night saw Russian Victoria Radochinskaya, 28, win the Mrs World contest in Vung Tau City Vietnam. First runner-up was Mrs America Andrea Robertson, a professional model. Mrs Viet Nam, businesswoman Hoang Thi Yen, was second. Victoria, who works in advertising, defeated the US and Vietnamese favourites [...]
LOS ANGELES — “Barf!” Rihanna squealed, at the sight of a pair of pale pink satin Brian Atwood stilettos. In her world this is a compliment. “Usually it’s ‘ill’ or ‘I want to throw up on it,’ ” she explained. “But barf is the worst,” meaning the best. “Barf is 10 out of 10.” In [...]
