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Kidnappers demand N500m ransom to free Pres. Jonathan's uncle
A security source said that the abductors threatened to kill him if the family fails to produce the money. The source also said the family had constituted a committee to evaluate the demand, establish negotiations with the abductors and facilitate his release.
He said the kidnappers had also warned against the involvement of security operatives in the matter.
"The kidnappers contacted the family four days after and demanded a whopping sum of N500m. It is believed that the family of the victim has begun negotiations with the hoodlums," he said.
Tension and panic set in when the kidnappers failed to establish any contact with the family of their victim three days after he was abducted.
That development was said to have rattled the Presidency, which reportedly ordered a massive deployment of security in Otuoke, the hometown of the Jonathans, and the Niger Delta creeks.
The gunmen abducted Nitabai on Sunday after collecting about N400,000 from his wife.
Source: Sahara Reporters
Etisalat unveils new ‘Gold Series’ Experience Centre in grand style
The state-of-the-art customer service centre located at 43, Adeola Odeku Street in Victoria Island was recently unveiled in grand style. Continue...
With the opening, Etisalat has once again shown itself as a trendy brand, with the centre set to redefine the way and manner customer experience is perceived in Nigeria.
The new Etisalat centre, designed to deliver better customer service experience, has an in-store café where customers can relax, grab a coffee, and continue to interact with the brand. There’s also a VIP “GEM” lounge for its existing high value customers.
What’s more, it has an authentic Geek Force bar loaded with “Small bytes & App-etizers” apps menu where customers can ask questions, try out new apps and see how the latest mobile devices can enhance their lives when paired with the right applications.
With the current features, layout and experiential zoning, the new experience centre at Adeola Odeku is set to revolutionize the retail environment in Nigeria.
Photos from Ohimai Amaize and Tessy Oliseh's traditional wedding
Their traditional wedding held earlier today February 28th at Ashton Gardens, Ogba, Lagos. Their white wedding will hold April 26th. Congrats to them. Continue to see more photos...
Dencia reacts to Lupita's speech, says she doesn't know who she is
Trends to look out for in 2014
After a lot of speculations into what trends will follow through 2014. Last year, we saw some old fashion trends coming back to rock runways and people picked up the trends fast. Some of the trends that we saw last year includes red carpets favorite Great Gatsby from the 60’s movie, Monochrome, Color blocking, Pastels and more 60’s twist trends high wait skirts. Continue...
This year we expect a lot more because Trends are about the future including fashion. Even though, we go back in time to appreciate fashion trends and always reinventing them into the modern rock looks. Recently from the London Fashion Week and New York fashion week, we spotted fashion trends this year that will be different and also more refreshing from what we are used too. It will be about the colors, which have been flocking the runways during the fashion weeks.
In Nigeria, we have also seen familiar trends as the rest of the world. Nigerians are very trendy; from rocking best fashion trends on red carpets to buying the latest gadgets (Mobile phones).
JUMIA has highlighted the trends that we should look out for this year, following the recent Trend rave on Fashion and Gadgets:
Trends Meets Jumia
Dear LIB readers: Can't get the image of my ex **** out of my head
I have been married for 3years with a child, love my husband, he is the kind of man any woman can hope for, spoils and pampers me like a guy asking a girl out for the first time (we are happy). But I think I love my ex more, we broke up because he lies too much to me and any guy that lies to you is not serious or doesn't love you (my theory), but we remained friends, the kind of friend that you can tell anything no matter how weird. We were chatting about 2 days ago and we got emotional that he sent me a picture of his penis and I almost jumped out of my skin. Since then I have not been able to sleep, work or do anything without seeing that image and longing for it, I so much want to be with him but I am married. What should I do? Please don't insult me, I need honest answer cause I can't talk to anybody about it.
Rita Dominic and Monalisa Chinda dazzle in multi-colored outfits
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Actress Yvonne Okoro stuns in lingerie and see-through red dress
Gidiculture Festival releases star-studded lineup schedule
The organisers of the highly anticipated Gidiculture festival today released the performance schedule for its all star lineup, with the Original African music channel, Dstv’s Channel O announced as the official broadcast partner.
The star-studded line up of artistes which includes Davido, Wizkid, Oritse Femi, Ice Prince to name a few has grabbed the attention of festival lovers around the country. Continue...
The schedule which was released earlier today includes rising star Ayo Jay, Boj, Poe and Blink, who will all take the stage at this year’s event. “The Gidiculture festival prides itself on celebrating home grown talent whilst providing upcoming artistes the opportunity to perform alongside established talents” said Chin Okeke, Executive Producer, Gidi Culture Festival.
“Channel O is always striving to showcase and celebrate the best of the continent’s excellence in musical offering, and being part of this festival is testimony of our dedication to that,” says Head of Channel O Africa Leslie ‘Lee’ Kasumba. “Not only will we be flying the Channel O flag as supporters of this occasion, but we will also broadcast the whole festival on our platform at a later date,” she says.
“The road to Gidiculture festival has been a long one and Channel O has been with us through this journey, therefore the decision to work with Channel O was a natural one” added Okeke.
The Gidiculture festival which promises to be an exciting day out for revellers will now include a fully installed football court for fans of the popular sport. Sports lovers will be able to participate in mini tournaments on the day, where the match winner will go head to head with a celebrity team.
With many wondering how the organisers of the event have been able to pull together an undeniably exciting lineup, combined with a day of adrenaline filled activities, this is sure to be a memorable experience.
The Gidiculture festival is set to take place on Sunday 2nd March, 2014 at Eleguhsi beach. Tickets are available at selected retail outlets and online at wwwafritickets.com.
And of course, look out for the broadcast of the festival on the Original African music channel, DStv’s Channel O (Channel 320) on a date still to be announced.
To view the full lineup visit www.gidiculturefestival.com
Sosoliso Aircrash survivor, Kechi Okwuchi's message to president Jonathan
Kechi Okwushi, one of the students who survived the 2005 Sosoliso air crash is now a big girl and in this YouTube video asked the president to do the needful in the Aviation sector. Watch...
Lupita talks about black beauty & Dencia's Whitenicious at BWHL
Accepting her award, Lupita gave one of the most powerful speeches about self-acceptance and loving yourself just the way you are. Her message basically is; Black is beautiful and you really don't need Dencia's Whitenicious. Yep, she mentioned Dencia in her speech. Check on it after the cut...
Lupita's acceptance speech at Essence Black Women in Hollywood Luncheon
Thank you Alfre, for such an amazing, amazing introduction and celebration of my work. And thank you very much for inviting me to be a part of such an extraordinary community.
I am surrounded by people who have inspired me, women in particular whose presence on screen made me feel a little more seen and heard and understood. That it is Essence that holds this event celebrating our professional gains of the year is significant, a beauty magazine that recognizes the beauty that we not just possess but also produce.
I want to take this opportunity to talk about beauty, black beauty, dark beauty. I received a letter from a girl and I’d like to share just a small part of it with you: “Dear Lupita,” it reads, “I think you’re really lucky to be this Black but yet this successful in Hollywood overnight. I was just about to buy Dencia’s Whitenicious cream to lighten my skin when you appeared on the world map and saved me.”
My heart bled a little when I read those words, I could never have guessed that my first job out of school would be so powerful in and of itself and that it would propel me to be such an image of hope in the same way that the women of The Color Purple were to me.
I remember a time when I too felt unbeautiful. I put on the TV and only saw pale skin, I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin. And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first. And every day I experienced the same disappointment of being just as dark as I was the day before. I tried to negotiate with God, I told him I would stop stealing sugar cubes at night if he gave me what I wanted, I would listen to my mother’s every word and never lose my school sweater again if he just made me a little lighter. But I guess God was unimpressed with my bargaining chips because He never listened.
And when I was a teenager my self-hate grew worse, as you can imagine happens with adolescence. My mother reminded me often that she thought that I was beautiful but that was no conservation, she’s my mother, of course she’s supposed to think I am beautiful. And then…Alek Wek. A celebrated model, she was dark as night, she was on all of the runways and in every magazine and everyone was talking about how beautiful she was. Even Oprah called her beautiful and that made it a fact. I couldn’t believe that people were embracing a woman who looked so much like me, as beautiful. My complexion had always been an obstacle to overcome and all of a sudden Oprah was telling me it wasn’t. It was perplexing and I wanted to reject it because I had begun to enjoy the seduction of inadequacy. But a flower couldn’t help but bloom inside of me, when I saw Alek I inadvertently saw a reflection of myself that I could not deny.
Now, I had a spring in my step because I felt more seen, more appreciated by the far away gatekeepers of beauty. But around me the preference for my skin prevailed, to the courters that I thought mattered I was still unbeautiful. And my mother again would say to me you can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t feed you and these words plagued and bothered me; I didn’t really understand them until finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.
And what my mother meant when she said you can’t eat beauty was that you can’t rely on how you look to sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and for those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul. It is what got Patsey in so much trouble with her master, but it is also what has kept her story alive to this day. We remember the beauty of her spirit even after the beauty of her body has faded away.
And so I hope that my presence on your screens and in the magazines may lead you, young girl, on a similar journey. That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside.
There is no shame in Black beauty.
Centenary celebration, a dance on the graves of murdered students - Atiku
Meanwhile the families of late Fela Anikulapo Kuti and Chief Gani Fawehinmi have rejected the Post Humous Awards the Federal Government is to bestow on both Gani and Fela at a Centenary Awards which will hold later today at the Banquet Hall State House in Abuja. Continue...
The Fawehinmi family say nominating their father in the same category with former Military Head of State, General Gbadamosi Babangida and the recent killing of students in Yobe state are their reasons for turning down the award.
Femi Kuti who spoke on behalf of the Kuti Family say they have not yet received any apologies from the government for the burning of the Kalakuta Republic in 1977 and also for the killing of his grandmother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and so cannot receive the award.
Other Nigerians to be awarded today include
Sir Samuel Manuwa, Professor John Edozien, Dr Moses Majekodunmi, Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, Professor Oladipo Akinkugbe, Professor Latunde Odeku, Professor Nelson Oyesiku and Dr. Funmi Olopade, Professor Oyin Olurin, Professor Orishejolomi Thomas, Chief MKO Abiola, Professor Bello Osagie, Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti, Professor Ade Elebute, Dr Akinola Maja, Professor Femi Williams, Professor Ambrose Alli, Dr Dalhatu Tafida, Professor Ishaya Audu, Professor Oladele Ajose and Professor Tola Adebonojo, Chief Micheal Adenuga among others.
Shop, karaoke and party tomorrow at Kubechi's Closet Fair
Kubechi's Closet Fair event is a bi-monthly fashion fair organizing outfit dedicated to the business of bringing together fashion retailers and designers in fashion fairs and shows in order to create awareness for their goods and services.
The event is also geared towards ensuring that shoppers get the best quality at the best possible price and all these within the comfortable ambience as we believe that this will add value and service to the high-class shoppers to make it a truly one-stop shopping experience and delight for them.
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Man sues Macdonalds for $1.5million for giving him only one napkin
TMZ reports
McDonalds has made a new golden arch enemy - a California man is suing the company for $1.5million... because he says he only got one napkin with his meal. Webster Lucas claims he was stiffed on napkins at the Mickey D's in Pacoima, CA on January 29th -- after ordering a Quarter Pounder Deluxe - and when he went up to the counter to ask for more, he was rudely rebuffed by the manager ... who insisted he already got some. According to his lawsuit, Lucas, who is black, then retorted, "I should have went to eat at the Jack-in-the-Box because I didn't come here to argue over napkins. I came here to eat."That's when Lucas says things got racist -- claiming the manager (a Mexican-American) mumbled something about "you people."Lucas subsequently emailed the general manager to complain - insisting he couldn't work because of the "undue mental anguish" he was suffering as a result of the napkin debacle -- and says he was insultingly offered free burgers in return. Lucas wants to super size instead - $1.5 million.
Photos: Comedian Elenu and wife welcome baby boy
Photos: Ooni of Ife's daughter, Princess Seyi Sijuade, weds
Top personalities like the Minister of State for the FCT, Jumoke Akinjide, Esama of Benin, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, Chief Anthony Anenih and others were there to felicitate with the Oni and his Family. See more photos after the cut...
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