Monday, June 13, 2011

NOLLYWOOD ACTRESS,EMPRESS NJAMAH DENIES NUDE PICTURES

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By Niyi Tabiti

Controversial actress, Empress Njamah has vehemently denied that she was the one in the nude pictures being circulated on the internet.

A close friend of the actress told gistmaster.com this morning that she has seen the photos but denied she was the one in it.

Empress’ pal described the nude photos as fake. It is the work of mischievous and disgruntled element who wants to pull her down at all costs.

Empress Njamah hails from a family of showbiz personalities. Two of her brothers, John and A1quilla are known faces in Nollywood, Nigeria movie industry.

Empress has acted in dozen of Nigeria home videos and until recently, she was girlfriend to Timaya, the Egberi Papa 1 of Bayelsa. Initially, they both denied the relationship but later they showed off in public that they were indeed in a romance.

They parted ways due the series of misunderstandings and public fights, including one that occurred within Empress’ family church premises in Lagos.

Anita Hogan,Wande Coal and Uche Iwuji have gone through similar experiences when their nude photos leaked to via Nigerian entertainment blogs.

Reporter- Niyi Tabiti email: niyitabiti@yahoo.com

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GISTMASTER PARTNERS AFRICA FASHION WEEK LONDON

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Gistmaster.com your favorite lifestyle, brand and social networking blog have announced it support towards the forthcoming Africa Fashion week in London.

Gistmaster is now an official media partner to Africa Fashion Week, London.

In a statement by Niyi Tabiti, the CEO of Gistmaster.com , the company said " Gistmaster's media partnership with Africa Fashion Week in London is a reflection of our commitment to the development of African fashion culture and business worldwide"

Gistmaster.com has covered most of the biggest events in town.

AFRICA FASHION WEEK LONDON is now less than two months away. The premiere
fashion week dedicated to African and African inspired fashion in Europe
is geared to be the biggest African event this summer in London.

The event is already eagerly anticipated in UK with over 50 designers and
exhibitors from all over the world. Nigerian Designers going from Nigeria
London to showcase at the event are PRIMA ROUGE, HOUSE OF BRUNO (Frank
Osodi) HOUSE OF FARRAH (Abuja) OUCH (Lagos) HALLERO’S COUTURE (Lagos)
FANTAZIA CLOTHING, JAY BY JACK (Abuja) and 1979 COUTURE (Abuja).

Powered by RUKKIES CONCEPTS, the make up sponsors for the event is MINK
COSMETICS while the hair sponsor is REAL HAIR.
AFWL 2011 is a free ticketing event and interested attendees are free to
register online at www.africafashionweeklondon.com and have free tickets
mailed to them by email. The event will be happening on 5th and 6th August
2011 at the prestigious Gibson Hall, 13 Bishopsgate London EC2N.

 

 

‘ANCHOR BABY’ NOW SHOWING IN CANADA

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Lonzo Nzekwe is a Nigerian who has made his homeland proud in Canada where he resides with his movie Anchor Baby

The producer of the film, which recently received a Golden Palm Award at the Mexico International film festival, making it list of awards a total of seven international awards from ten International film festivals around the globe says “Right from its first screening, Canadians have been yearning to have the movie showing in cinemas in Canada but my patriotic sentiments made me bring the movie to Nigeria first and then to Ghana before showing it in Canada”

“Just like it was in Nigeria, Canadians are highly receptive to the movie and in the few weeks of its presence in the Canadian cinemas, the response has been mind blowing”

‘Anchor Baby’, which is set to be released in United Kingdom and Europe soon, tells the story of Joyce (Omoni Oboli) and Paul Unanga (Sam Sarpong), a married illegal immigrant couple living in the United States. In order to obtain a stay in the US, they decided to deliver a child there, who will have an automatic citizenship, but Joyce was only five months pregnant when the US immigration ordered them to leave the country by voluntary departure.

Determined to beat the US immigration’s order, Paul and Joyce went into hiding. Paul was later caught and deported leaving the pregnant Joyce to fight and achieve their dream. Struggle, pain, determination but hope came with this decision.

The multiple award film featured Omoni Oboli, Sam Sarpong, Terri Oliver, Colin Paradine, Mark Cassius, Michael Scratch, Cyrus Faird and Santiago Lopera and is currently being represented by ID Communications, a Montreal and Canada-based film marketing and distribution company.

Story: Gistmaster.com

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Saturday, June 11, 2011

BANKE MESHIDA LAWAL NOW OFFICIAL MAKE UP ARTIST TO THE FIRST LADY OF NIGERIA


Yep , the cats finally outta the bag , as ace make up artist Banke Meshida - lawal has been appointed the official Make up artist to Dame (Dr) Patience Goodluck Jonathan.
The appointment which is to take effect from this June, Banke would be hands on to ensuring the first lady has her make up professionally done.

Banke is the official make up artist behind the bmpro range

ABOUT BANKE MESHIDA LAWAL
Banke Meshida-Lawal is the makeup artist behind FACES makeover . She has been in business for  a decade and three years. A graduate of English from the University of Lagos, (UNILAG). While at school, she earned a reputation for being a face painter because of her dexterity in the art she became quickly popular. Five years ago precisely, she launched her own make up line - BMPro- Banke Meshida Products . which has become the make up range of most ladies and celebs alike.

ANKARA IN BURBERRY ? or BURBERRY IN ANKARA ?

Who says Ankara is no longer in vogue? well not the chief creative director of Burberry-Christopher Bailey. In his recent collection , we spotted some tribal influences that were not just print , but good ol' Ankara . Check out the rest below.














DELABIQUE Look Book May 2011

If this collection is saying anything , then it is clear that Deola Kamson of Delabique was meant to be bold and sexy. The May Look Book collection is just that, with the clever use of colour , texture and cut.devoid of her signature layer, this collection exudes elegance with a bold sensibility.

The pieces are chock full of bright colors and floral prints and they have a fun and youthful energy. Bold feeling with an elegant edginess Joker -inspired tops, influenced by the color wheel . The elegance comes into play with the fluidity of the silhouettes and fabrics, pastel colors including red rose and sequins and the general ease of the collection.















For enquiries- delabique@gmail.com or delabique.blogspot.com ; or phone- 07034027373

BEAUTY & THE FEAST COMES TO TOWN WITH - CELEBRITY EDITION


Come the 19th of june 2011, Fashion icons and other pacesetters in the city of lagos and beyond would be converging at the Protea, Westwood Hotel on awolowo road - ikoyi for the 3rd edition of the most exciting fashion and beauty exhibition ever- Beauty and the Feast.


This year , we would be having DIVA DELICIOUS - all the way from Ghana , GZK, Shoezone, Adookeh, Angies, Dfl(Multikra clutch bags), Rukkies, Miz-tee hair(USA ) , Yes I do, Patrick Ayanski, La Bennis, Gazzelle, Nyaradzai, Krustie, Azaria, Strictly Barbie dot com(UK) , Gifty's Daughter (Port Harcourt ) and many more .

It promises to be the most exciting shopping experience ever with huge discount sales , goody bags and you get to have the rare opportunity of shopping with some of your favorite artistes, nollywood actors/ actresses and have a picture taken with them while shopping .


Over the next couple of days, we will parade some of these exhibitors and what to expect .


Also - Admission is FREE

For more details , call 08023341846/08138388004.

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