The year 2014 has ended on a good note for buzzing dance hall artiste, Patoranking. The reggae artiste not only clinched three awards but also went home with a brand new Hyundai car at the just concluded entertainment awards, Headies 2014 held at Eko Hotels in Lagos on Sunday, December 14,2014. His first award was for his collaborative effort on ‘Emergency’. The hit single earned him the Best Collabo award, alongside WizzyPro, Skales and Runtown. His second award was the Best Reggae/Dancehall category for his hit track ‘Girlie’o’ while his biggest award of the night was when he clinched the…
Author: Pride Team
Dear Dorothy, I am 17 years of age and am not happy with my looks. I think I am overweight and flat chested. I consider my friends in school quite good looking, with the boys chasing after them. I recently started taking alcohol to try and boost my confidence, but it does not seem to be helping at all. I am afraid I will go through life lonely and alone. I am so confused, please advice me. My dear, Truth be told, beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, and is not necessarily in the size of one’s boobs or…
Music SO BEAUTIFUL Chee Don’t tell me you’ve not watched Glo-girl, Chee’s new music video, “So Beautiful”! This music video was directed by the same genius, “Gini” who did late Dagrin’s “PON PON PON”. Christmas is perfected with this music video and no matter how you are feeling this December, Chee will lift your spirit. Chee is one of the best singers Nigeria has today and hopefully in the next four years or less, rule the Industry. Shhhh! It’s a secret 7/11 Beyonce With controversies surrounding Canadian export Drake from being wrongly accused of sleeping with Karrueche to his getting…
Last weekend in London, UK British Nigerians were hard at work showcasing the groundbreaking success and solidarity of the growing diaspora art scene. The British Urban Film Festival premiered new Nollywood Rom-Com ‘Mum, Dad, Meet Sam’ on Sat 6th at Genesis Cinema in the East end, directed, produced and co-written by two female powerhouses Segilola Ogidan and Edith Nwekenta. Starring Comedian A-Dot, Marlene Abuan and Joseph Benjamin the film is shot both in Lagos and London and centred around the bi-racial relationship of Sam, a white English woman and Jossiah, a Nigerian man with a promising future. I caught up with the women to…
The Johnnie Walker *Black Podium* series kicked off at Lagos’ Intercontinental Hotel on Friday December 5, 2014, with VIP guests experiencing a bold and unexpected night where popular music and masterful performances were expertly blended together, and set about taking Nigeria’s social scene to the next step. The unique entertainment line-up included performances by Afrobeat pioneer and Grammy-nominated musician Femi Kuti, and Afro-Pop sensation Temi Dollface. Introducing eclectic variety to the line-up were performances by an acclaimed electric violinist, a contortionist, a magician and a refreshingly rare DJ set, which incorporated a live drummer and saxophonist. “Talent in Nigeria is very diverse and, through the Johnnie Walker…
There is a motion filed before the Parliament of South Africa calling for the employment of a Sangoma (a witch-doctor) to screen members of the House. Andries Tlouamma of the AgangSAtabled, who tabled the motion for Parliament to “hire services of a sangoma”, said the Sangoma “will check whether honourable members are not bewitched or if they are not suffering from a mental illness”. Tlouamma said the sangoma would also help them focus on their real job as MPs. Surprisingly and interestingly, there were no objections to the motion. It was among several motions tabled after the National Assembly had…
The first harvest from The Gambia’s Vision 2016 Rice Project will hit the market by January 1, 2015, President Yahya Jammeh has assured his compatriots. “I want to live by example, and I want to make sure that by the 1st of January 2015 this will be the first Vision 2016 rice harvested to enter the market for sale,” he said President Jammeh gave the assurance in Jahally Pacharr in the Central River Region as he personally started harvesting the first phase of the Vision 2016 rice at the Jahally Pacharr rice field. He expressed his satisfaction with the level…
A man who coveted his sister-in-law’s property and conspired with a friend to deprive her of them has bagged for himself 10 years with hard labour. Justice Alkali Wakil of the Maiduguri High Court, who jailed Kyari Bukar of Ngomari ward of Maiduguri, for conspiracy and robbery, condemned Bukar’s action as “shameful and serious”. Added the judge: “It is the highest ingratitude by Kyari and his partner in crime”. Bukar Maiduguri was sentenced under sections 97 and 298 of the Penal Code Law of Borno State. The court also sentenced the accomplice of the convict, Hamisu Haruna, to six months…
By Tunde Ajibade Sometimes you get stuck between earning your daily living and realizing your dreams. Like an engineer being offered a lucrative bank job; at first you are glad you have a good job offer but deep down inside you know it isn’t what you really want and worse still it’s taking you further away from that dream engineering job you’ve craved since childhood. But you accept the offer for the present benefits intending to hop off the bus and join the train to your desired destination sometime soon. After one year you consider reviving your engineering career but…
The manager of an Abuja hotel where a non-payment dispute between two suspected homosexuals ended in the death of one of them has been detained by the police for interrogation. The suspected gay, Mohammed Snu, who had allegedly worshipped in a nearby mosque about hour earlier, was stabbed several times in the ribs with a screw driver last Thursday by his suspected partner, Mohammed Umar, inside a room of a hotel in Garki, Abuja. Following the report of the crime policemen from the FCT Command went in a white pick-up van and took the corpse away and the hotel manager.…