The Future Awards (TFA) 2011 that held last Sunday was a resounding success going by the quality of guests, winners, performances, speeches and even choice of venue. Organised by RedSTRAT with Chude Jideonwo, Debola Williams and Debbie Magnut as Directors, the event was hosted by the pair of Yvonne Ekwerre and Ebuka Obi Uchendu and then Dolapo Oni and Dr…
Fifi EjinduIf there has been any question about whether the stylish, drop-dead gorgeous fashionista, Fifi Ejindu is losing her touch that question had better be dispense with as this Cross River state beauty and brawn seems to be getting better and better with age. Contrary to the gist making rounds that she had lost her touch, the disarming damsel hit…
The beautiful, indefatigable and alluring Deputy Governor of Lagos state is one woman who is having a raw deal being dealt her way right now. Guess what she is paying for? SosanHer loyalty to the governor has become the Achilles heel that looks good on the bill to put paid to her career as a politician. The word running riot…
I am a regular face at a Quick Service Restaurant with a foreign affiliation on a weekly basis. I am not a fast food freak but my children have made it compelling for me, as they know the major ones off hand. One major thing that I found in all the outlets I have visited is the inability of the…
The Ondo State House of Assembly has passed a bill establishing the state’s Agricultural Inputs Supply Agency to enable the company to operate as a legal entity. Speaker Samuel Adesina said at the plenary session of the House on Wednesday in Akure that the law setting up the agency was long overdue for review. Mr Adesina expressed optimism that the…
Work on the N8.3 billion leather and garment cluster in Obingwa in Abia State will resume in March, Chidibere Ukaegbu, the managing director of the layout, has said. Mr. Ukaegbu, who is the chairman and chief executive of Futuristic Development Ltd., on Thursday, said that the contractors abandoned the project in the heat of the kidnapping in the state. “The…
4 February 2011 The 2011 African Nations Championship being staged in Sudan kicks-off this evening when the hosts take on Gabon in their opening encounter in Khartoum. DR Congo will be defending the crown they won in Cote d'Ivoire two years ago, but this time face an extended field after CAF increased the number of participants from eight to 16…
President Goodluck Jonathan and his vice, Namadi Sambo, yesterday, shunned the presentation of books written about them by Coalition Front for Goodluck (CFG), an affiliate of Goodluck-Sambo Campaign Organisation. The two books,‘The Voice of the Earth’ and ‘Goodluck/Sambo, the Hidden Treasure,’ were billed for presentation at the occasion. The event,which was slated for 10am took place at Yar’Adua Centre in…
Bauchi State Grand Khadi, Abdullahi Yakubu Marafa, has appealed to the federal government to place an embargo on the importation of pornographic publications and materials into the country which, he argued, pollute the minds of Nigerian youth. He explained that if the government is really serious with its programme of re-branding Nigeria and its desire for a disciplined society, it…
The Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba, the Delta State capital, on Thursday, discharged all the patients on admission, following a strike by nurses and laboratory technologists in the hospital. By noon, the workers, operating under the aegis of Joint Action Committee, had deserted their duty posts in protest over cuts on their monthly allowance, tagged ‘Teaching Allowance’. In a statement…
In 2010, the tables turned for Modupe Oreoluwa, popularly known as Mo’Cheddah, the sole female act of the KnightHouse crew. MTV Base named her as the pioneering act for its ‘Brand New’ program; she also went ahead to cart away several awards including The Channel O Music awards as well as the MTV Africa Music Awards. The 21 year-old undergraduate…
Joe Tamuno-Bibidamaa Tom-West was undoubtedly one of the best Nollywood’s action stars and ‘bad boy’. Up until he passed away a few days after being involved in an auto crash in 2006, West featured in quite a number of Nollywood films and was at some point known as one of Nollywood’s best. With his looks and diction, JT Tom West…
Munachi Abii, hit the limelight in 2007 after emerging the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria. The Benson Idahosa University, International Relations and Diplomacy graduate,who has collaborated with music acts like Terry Da Rapman, J Martins and Banky W ,is currently working on her debut album titled the ‘The Goddess’. MY FIRST ...Stage performance It was in 2008 ...Award Back at…
Vivacious Ijeoma Richards, is one lady blessed with beauty and brain, her book ‘The successful girls Rule’ which contains 115 etiquettes for today’s female of ages 5 to 85 years is presently enjoying an unprecedented patronage . Ijeoma RichardsAccording to the stylish lady “you know nature is awesome, butterflies are entrancing, but only the woman could be described with all…
For the simple fact that Funke Osibodu’s life revolves around nothing but banking does not mean she cannot tell a thing or two about style. Funke OsiboduThough not a glamour obsessed person who is easily disposed to flaunting her gifts of nature but more often than not, she has shown she could really get in the act when occasion demands.…