Don’t battle your eyes, it’s still the same celebrated and ageless actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde. This type of magazine cover is hardly seen in Nigeria. Simple and unique!
OMOTOLA JALADE-EKEINDE ON MANIA MAGAZINE
STELLA DAMASUS APPOINTED WOMEN FOR AFRICA AMBASSADOR
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Nollywood actress and singer, Stella Damasus alongside Uganda’s Jennifer Ogole and Kenya’s Gita Patel has been appointed the Women For Africa Ambassador.
Women for Africa is an organization set up to celebrate and encourage young African women.
“Every minute of everyday a woman somewhere is bringing another being into the world. She nurtures, guides, loves and comforts her family. Despite prejudices, she forges ahead, endures hardship drawing on her inner strength. Today she has attained heights that were previously thought to be impossible. I am proud to be an ambassador for ‘WOMEN FOR AFRICA’ and I celebrate the achievements of African Women around the world”
‘Women for Africa’ was birthed from a 20-year desire and passion to see women honoured and appreciated in a celebratory way.
“Everywhere you go in life you see women. Focused, driven, determined, ambitious, resourceful, passionate, talented, inspiring are just some of the characteristics that are embedded in these women”.Stella stated
The ‘Women for Africa Awards UK’ 2012 which will be held on19th May 2012 will see a number of women of African women awarded for their hard work, efforts, contributions and achievements.
PHOTOS: TERRY THA RAPMAN UNVEILS BOYS ARE NOT SMILING (B.A.N.S) TSHIRTS
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The official launching of the Boyz Are Not Smiling T-Shirt took place on Saturday, February 25, 2012 at Adeola Odeku Street, V.I
Though the colourful tshirts were designed by celebrity designer, Marco Martinez; the brain behind DJ Jimmy Jatt’s snapback caps, the clothing line is an initiative of hotshot rapper, Terry tha rapman.
Guests who streamed the Adeola Odeku venue to grace the occassion include Vector, OD, Mode 9, Pope, Prince Tillaman to mention a few.
Fast-rising magazine crew, Slyk and Distinct were also present at the occassion.
Photo credit: Sola Abisagbo (Slyk&Distinct)
CHOCOLATE CITY SIGNS FIRST FEMALE ARTISTE
Chocolate City, an award-winning entertainment company owned by Audu Maikori and Paul has signed their first ever female artiste.
The label which harbours top artistes like M.I, Jesse Jagz, Iceprince, and Brymo has welcomed their latest member Princess Esindu a.k.a Pryse. The talented rapper who was born and raised in Port Harcourt, Rivers State studied media in a UK university; her influences are Jay Z, Drake, Lil Wayne, and M.I.
Energetic and talented Pryse welcomed the opportunity of being featured along-side, award winning Africa’s rapper numero uno, M.I on his upcoming mixtape “Deux Illegaux de Musique – Illegal Music 2”.
She became enlisted in the Chocolate City camp when label owners heard her part in the song “No-tis” (a cover of Jay Z and Kanye West’s Otis).
Reacting to the honour, she said,”I thank God I’ve come this far, and I’m just happy its finally happened, and I’m ready to put in the work, so let’s go. I’m ready to be a BOI (Bold Original Innovative).”
I love the way femcees keep springing up! Yaaay!
Source:Celebregion
BEHOLD BRITAIN'S MOST OVER-PAMPERED TEENAGER
She doesn’t come from a wealthy home; her parents don’t own the most expensive house, her 42 year-old father is a boiler room operator who works 15 hours per day and pays all the household bills but her mother who maintains two jobs effortlessly funds her lavish lifestyle.
Amanda Turpie gives her £1,100 monthly earnings to Paige, her 15 year-old daughter to buy clothes shoes and make up.
The model wannabe who’s from Ockendon Essex spends 90minutes dressing up for school. She proudly declares, “I am so proud to be the most spoilt 15-year-old in Britain.
Mum buys me whatever I want and if I don’t get what I want, I throw a tantrum. I want to look good and stand out. I’m determined to be famous and that is why my mum spends all her money on me.” .
Asides her school bag being a Gucci handbag, she possesses 100 pairs of shoes, designer clothes with labels including Gucci, Juicy Couture, Stella McCartney and Burberry, entire Katie Price and Amy Childs perfume and book collections, as well as diamond earrings.
Her bedroom contains velvet wallpaper and silk designer bedding; with gadgets like a laptop, flat-screen TV, an iPad and a Nintendo Wii.
But why is her mother doing this? “When I was little, my family didn’t have much money and I always wanted more clothes and shoes. I grew up in a family of four and I was always wearing hand-me-downs.
When I had Paige, I vowed she would never go without. So I spend all my earnings on her. I have done since she was born. If she needs extra things, I work extra hours.” She explained.
Amanda is also Paige’s chauffer. She’s never taken a bus in her life, “I’m also happy to pick up after her. She has never cleaned up after herself she doesn’t know how.” She added.
Although she is happy to take her mother’s money, Paige would never work like her mum does. “I love my mum and she works very hard but I could never do the kind of jobs that she does. I know money is always tight in our house but it’s important that I look good. That’s where Mum comes in.”
Wait a minute! She has a 13 year-old younger sister. Unlike her ostentatious sister, Brooke wants everything simple, she does not even demand designer clothes
Though they live in a three-bedroom end-of-terrace they bought 12 years ago for £73,000, her Dad disagrees with the issue, “I was brought up to think if you wanted something, you had to work for it. We used to get one present at Christmas and an apple and an orange. Paige would think that was a joke.” He declared.
All these for a 15 year-old school girl? Isn’t this outrageous? What’s your take?
Source: The Sun
2012 OSCARS: LIST OF WINNERS
The 84th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood staged at California on Sunday February 26, 2012 bestowed
the Oscars – the highest honors in the movie industry to deserving actors and actresses.
LIST OF WINNERS
ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE
1)Demin Bichir in “A Better Life”
2)George Clooney in “The Descendants”
3) Jean Dujardin in “The Artist”-WINNER
4)Gary Oldman in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
5) Brad Pitt in “Moneyball”
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
1)Kenneth Branagh in “My Week with Marilyn
2)Jonah Hill in “Moneyball”
3)Nick Nolte in “Warrior”
4)Christopher Plummer in “Beginners”- WINNER
5)Max von Sydow in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
1)Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs”
2)Viola Davis in “The Help”
3)Rooney Mara in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
4)Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady”-WINNER
5)Michelle Williams in “My Week with Marilyn”
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
1)Benice Bejo in “The Artist”
2)Jessica Chastain in “The Help”
3)Melissa McCarthy in “Bridesmaids”
4)Janet McTeer in “Albert Nobbs”
5)Octavia Spencer in “The Help”-WINNER
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
1)”A Cat in Paris ” Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli”
2)”Chico & Rita” Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
3)”Kung Fu Panda 2″ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
4)”Puss in Boots” Chris Miller
5)”Rango” Gore Verbinski- WINNER
ART DIRECTION
1)”The Artist” Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
2)”Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
3)”Hugo” Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo- WINNER
4)”Midnight in Paris” Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
5)”War Horse” Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
CINEMATOGRAPHY
1)”The Artist” Guillaume Schiffman
2)”The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Jeff Cronenweth
3)”Hugo” Robert Richardson- WINNER
4)”The Tree of Life” Emmanuel Lubezki
5)”War Horse” Janusz Kaminski
COSTUME DESIGN
1)”Anonymous” Lisy Christl
2)”The Artist” Mark Bridges-WINNER
3)”Hugo” Sandy Powell
4)”Jane Eyre” Michael O’Connor
5)”W.E.” Arianne Phillips
DIRECTING
1) “The Artist” Michel Hazanavicius- WINNER
2)”The Descendants” Alexander Payne
3)”Hugo” Martin Scorsese
4)”Midnight in Paris” Woody Allen
5)”The Tree of Life” Terrence Malick
DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
1)”Hell and Back Again” Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
2)”If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front” Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
3)”Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory” Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
4)”Pina” Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
5) “Undefeated” TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas- WINNER
DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
1)”The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement” Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
2)”God Is the Bigger Elvis” Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
3)”Incident in New Baghdad” James Spione
4)”Saving Face” Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy-WINNER
5)”The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom” Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
FILM EDITING
1)”The Artist” Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
2)”The Descendants” Kevin Tent
3)”The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall- WINNER
4)”Hugo” Thelma Schoonmaker
5)”Moneyball” Christopher Tellefsen
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1)”Bullhead” Belgium
2)”Footnote” Israel
3)”In Darkness” Poland
4)”Monsieur Lazhar” Canada
5)”A Separation” Iran- WINNER
MAKEUP
1)”Albert Nobbs” Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
2)”Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
3)”The Iron Lady” Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland- WINNER
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
1)”The Adventures of Tintin” John Williams
2)”The Artist” Ludovic Bource-WINNER
3)”Hugo” Howard Shore
4)”Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Alberto Iglesias
5)”War Horse” John Williams
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
1)”Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets” Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie- WINNER
2)”Real in Rio” from “Rio” Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett
BEST PICTURE
1)”The Artist” Thomas Langmann, Producer- WINNER
2)”The Descendants” Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
3)”Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” Scott Rudin, Producer
4)”The Help” Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
5)”Hugo” Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
6)”Midnight in Paris” Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
7)”Moneyball” Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
8)”The Tree of Life” Nominees to be determined
9)”War Horse” Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
1)”Dimanche/Sunday” Patrick Doyon
2)”The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg- WINNER
3)”La Luna” Enrico Casarosa
4)”A Morning Stroll” Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
5)”Wild Life” Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
1)”Pentecost” Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
2)”Raju” Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
3)”The Shore” Terry George and Oorlagh George- WINNER
4)”Time Freak” Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
5)”Tuba Atlantic” Hallvar Witzø
SOUND EDITING
1)”Drive” Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
2)”The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Ren Klyce
3)”Hugo” Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty- WINNER
4)”Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
5)”War Horse” Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
SOUND MIXING
1)”The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
2)”Hugo” Tom Fleischman and John Midgley- WINNER
3)”Moneyball” Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
4)”Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
5)”War Horse” Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson
VISUAL EFFECTS
1)”Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
2)”Hugo” Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning- WINNER
3)”Real Steel” Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
4)”Rise of the Planet of the Apes” Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
5)”Transformers: Dark of the Moon” Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
1)”The Descendants” Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash-WINNER
2)”Hugo” Screenplay by John Logan
“The Ides of March” Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
3)”Moneyball” Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin
4)”Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
1)”The Artist” Written by Michel Hazanavicius
2)”Bridesmaids” Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
3)”Margin Call” Written by J.C. Chandor “Midnight in Paris” Written by Woody Allen- WINNER
4)”A Separation” Written by Asghar Farhadi
RADIO HIT SHOW EPISODE 27: CAN 9ICE BE SUFFERING FROM THE CRAIG DAVID SYNDROME?
Sup Folks.!
One of dumbest forms of criticism is to shout down an expert in one field . The theory is that people should stick to what they know and quietly sit by in all other situation…please…of course, at one point, we all knew nothing. The only way you ever know anything, in fact is to speak up about it, outline argument, support it, listen and review it.
Let’s dig into business of the day, it hasn’t changed much… 5 songs, 2 panelists, 1 host… Radio Hit Show!!!
1) M.I featuring Phenom – 6ft 7ft
2) Jodie – Under The Mango Tree
3) 9ice featuring Sound Sultan – Ghetto
4) Tillaman featuring Vector – Ko Ma Ro
5) Tony Touch – Good Loving
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72 YEAR-OLD NEPALESE SET TO BECOME WORLD'S SHORTEST MAN
We all have dreams and aspirations. For Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a 22-inch Nepalese’, his is to claim world’s smallest man spot in the Guinness Book Of World Records tomorrow.
The 72 year-old who is shorter than a broad sheet newspaper hopes to beat the current record holder 18 year-old Filipino Junrey Balawing, who is 23.5 inches tall.
Dangi, the seventh child in a family of 8 spends his time making placemats and head straps for villagers to carry heavy loads on their backs.
“I feel good that I will be declared the world’s shortest man. I think things will be better now. I hope that I will be famous all over the world. I want to visit foreign countries and meet people from around the world.” He stated.
God who spared his life up till this moment would make his dream come true.
Source: Dailymail
MIRROR BOY PRODUCER, OBI EMELONYE SETS 'LAST FLIGHT TO ABUJA'
This is certainly a movie to watch out for. It is not unlikely that footballer turned movie producer, Obi Emelonye took cues from the series of plane crashes that rocked the country few years back.
The intriguing, mind-blowing, emotion-stirring ‘Last flight in Abuja’ is a high octane disaster thriller movie and the first Nigerian movie to be set in an aeroplane.
Produced by Obi Emelonye and Charles Thompson MBE, the movie features Omotola Jalade –Ekeinde, Jim Iyke, Ali Nuhu, Hakkem Kae-Kazim, Anthony Monjaro, Uru Eke, Jennifer Oguzie, Uche Odoputa and Celine Loader.
Obi is also the brain behind blockbuster, ‘Mirror boy’.
Can’t wait to see it…
MEET EMINENT MUSIC PRODUCER, 'YOUNG D'
The name Akintewe Temidayo may not strike a chord but the youngman who’s popularly called Young D’s knack for music production has and still endearing him to many Nigerian music artistes.
The computer-science graduate is acclaimed for creating hits for top-notch artistes. His brief includes; the self-acclaimed Egberi Papa 1 of Bayelsa, Timaya’s “All The Way”, Oritse Femi “Better For Every Man”, Side One, Atorise, Dem MaMa Soldiers, Vector, Seed, LKT “Alaye Mi”, Ay.com, Sean Tero “Choko”, Element X, Chuddy K, Emco, Oritse Femi, Side-One, Sean Tero to mention a few. The Ondo-state indigene also doubles as a musician. Infact, his debut single, “Spending” which is generating a lot of buzz features dance-hall vocalist Timaya and Element X.
Inspired by Cobhams and Rayce, the ace producer who also owns ‘MurderBeatzVibes’ outfit is certainly an individual who has got more grounds to break.
Some producers may not be as popular as Don Jazzy or Cobhams but they are equally as proficient as them. Though Young D is working in silence but his success is speaking (loud) for him. Impressive portfolio!!