EXHIBITORS FOR MY STYLE FACTORY 2010

Fellow Fabulous Fashionable Fellas, It is just a couple of hours  to the one stop classy fashion, beauty and lifestyle exhibition of the year; MY STYLE FACTORY and as we promised it is going to be a gathering of the Style faithful. The excitement is palpable and the roll call of our exhibitors is simply intimidating!

DATE -21ST NOV 
VENUE - CORAL HALL 21B , IDOWU MARTINS V/I , LAGOS 
TIME - 12PM PROMPT 
ADMISSION - FREE!!!!!

FLOW BAR CONCEPTS

BUSY WEAR

SHOE SPEED

BEAUTIFUL 233

NYARADZZI

AFRICAN@LONDON

MARIAM ILAKA

REPUBLIC OF FOREIGNER (ROF)

Xclamations! by tomi rotimi

FLAWLESS STYLE

Sacred lashes -

Laarachi

Purple Pepper Clothing

RETROSPECT-Vintage Fashion

LaBennis

Busy wear-



- Fever London by Rukkies

Pegyz Place

10- laviva hair

DLune

Simeogieme;

Excellence fabrics

City Bliss

Patrick Ayanski

Wellwoman 

AMEDE 

OMOTOLA:THE QUEEN AT AFROMEDIA EVENT

By Niyi Tabiti

Omotola has denied wanting to become the Nigerian version of Beyonce, though she adores her and has a large portrait of the American diva in her office and another one in her 'heart'

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Omotola would not want to be seen as the JLO of Africa or Halle Berry replica but she cuts the picture of a real diva. Some think she is arrogant but her flamboyant lifestyle could be a reason why some are just envious.After making her impact in Nollywood, Nigeria's vast movie industry (The biggest in Africa) the actress is pursuing a vigorous career in music.Now that is no news, after all, her recent album launch was a glamorous event that brought together celebrities from within and outside the country.

The gist here is that the sexy mother of four seems to waxing stronger. She is giving it all her all despite critics here and there that she is just wasting her time in music sector.

Recently, she performed at the talk of the town Afromedia event at Eko Hotel, Lagos. D'banj and other notable artistes performed at the same event yet Omotola proved that she is good enough.

For now, she is seen as the most serious music act produced by 'Nollywood'

Remember, Jim Iyke and Genevieve Nnaji are some of popular faces in Nigerian movies who have tried to launch their music career in the past. Stephanie Okereke once said she was going to release a single but till date, we are still waiting.

-gistmaster.com

PEPSI,ROYAL EXCHANGE JOINS NIGERIA IDOL SPONSORSHIP LIST-WINNER GETS N5 MILLION

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As Nigerian Idol makes to start airing on Sunday November 21, 2010 Speculations as to whether the grand prize has been increased reached high points this week with the introduction of two additional sponsors- Pepsi and Royal Exchange

Apart from fast rising telecommunications giant Etisalat, sources say that with the introduction of Pepsi and Royal Exchange, the team at Nigerian Idol has increased the winner’s take home by 5 million Naira.

‘Yes, the grand prize has increased with the introduction of our new sponsors, but we will have to direct you to our PR team” Communication’s Manager Adaora Mbelu said when contacted last week.

A spokesperson at BlackHouse Media, publicists for the show corroborates Mbelu; even explaining further “Of course, there are new sponsors on the project and Pepsi Cola is one of them. And yes the grand prize is now 7.5M. Royal Exchange has also signed up, it just gets bigger and bigger.

No words on the figures these big spenders are committing on the project.

Fans of the Idols Franchise all over the world are familiar with the large Coca-Cola cups on American Idol Judges’ tables since 2002. The question now is if Nigerian Idol is treading that part with Pepsi Cola?

Will we be seeing Pepsi cups on the judges’ table when the show starts?

Like American Idol, Nigerian Idol aims to find the best singer in country. The former has over the year amassed a followership of 25 million, and till date is the most watched reality TV in the world. Nigerian Idol will discover that one talent who will go on to become an international superstar and music ambassador- Selling millions of records and packing concert venues across the world.

The first season of Nigerian Idol will be aired across Nigeria on several local TV stations and cable networks as well. For five consecutive months you will have the pleasure of watching Nigeria’s  biggest music talent competition on Thursdays and Sundays and have the opportunity to root and vote for your favourite Idol wannabe.

Yemisi Fajimolu will be hosting the first season of Nigerian Idol. Popularly known as Misi by her radio fans, she will be playing the role of famous Idols host Ryan Seacrest alongside Anis Holloway, a former reality show contestant

The show will air on 15 Channels including AIT, STV, NTA, CRBCTV Calabar, GTV Abeokuta, Galaxy TV, PRTV Jos and KWTV Ilorin

Others include DBSTV Asaba, ESBC Enugu, IMOTV, DITV Kaduna, HITV, TVC and Superscreen

Nigerian Idol is brought to you by Etisalat, in association with Pepsi and Royal Exchange

WHO’S DOING WHAT AT NIGERIAN IDOL 2010

Licensee-         Optima Media Group

Judges-            Audu Maikori, Jeffery Daniel and Yinka Davies

Host-               Yemisi Fajimolu(Misi), Anis Holloway

Sponsor-          Etisalat , Pepsi and Royal Exchange

Production-     Rapid Blue Format

PR-                  BlackHouse Media

THE WORLD RECEIVE THE FUTURE AWARDS TEAM IN SA,UK

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Fresh from Benin City, where it engaged with over 1000 young people in conjunction with the University of Benin-based CFI, the organisers of The Future Awards moved on for the international phase of its annual Town Hall meetings.

The South African Town Hall Meeting held at Club Hush on Friday November 5 and was organised in partnership with Storm 360, which held a reception for Storm artistes who had swept nominations and awards at the Channel O Awards. “We thought it was a fine opportunity to keep the Nigeria flag alive by participating in the activities of The Future Awards this season,” said Kenneth Oliko, Communication Coordinator for the awards.

That train quickly moved to the United Kingdom. On Wednesday, 10 November at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in East London, the official UK town hall meeting held. Youth leaders including Gbenga Sesan (two time winner of the awards), Subomi Plumptre, Oladapo Opayinka and others joined the meeting, which lasted two hours. Other guests included London-based entertainment heads Ayo Shonaiya and DJ Abass, Funmi Ajose-Adeogun amongst others.

There was a performance by a new act called Tipsy as well as comedy and a discussion about Nigeria and its issues. Discussions centred on the role that Nigerians in the Diaspora can play in changing the country. “I am not a young person,” Mrs. Ajose-Adeogun said to laughter, responding to a participant who claimed that living in Nigeria was “a waste” of his life. “But I have known this country since I came here as a student in 1976 and then after which I returned to Nigeria to work. I came back because I knew something we all need to know: there is only one place where you are truly a First Class citizen and that is Nigeria. We have a responsibility to build that country; even if for our sakes.”

The #IamNigeria campaign, with videos from 2face Idibia, Stephanie Okereke and others was also shown to the guests.

After London, it was on to Cambridge, where The Future Awards took its message to students under the Cambridge University Nigeria Society. The awards organisers, Adebola Williams and Chude Jideonwo joined awards’ nominee and award-winning journalist, Tolu Ogunlesi as he spoke with a cross section of undergraduate and graduate students on Saturday, 13 November at St Edmund’s College.

The event, called “A Taste of Nigeria” tried to “showcase Nigeria's many facets and rich culture” and ended with talks from the three guests, who spoke about the awards, this year’s campaign, how people in the Diaspora can be a part and other issues.

Jideonwo also took the opportunity to speak about the RSVP campaign of the EnoughisEnough Nigeria movement, an advocacy coalition, which he founded through The Future Project. The RSVP (Register, Scrutinize Vote, Protect) campaign is geared towards ensuring that Nigerian youths are actively involved in all the process of the 2011 election.

“The international Town Hall Meetings are aimed at re-awakening the original Nigerian consciousness in Nigerians representing Nigeria everywhere,” Williams, who is Operations Director of the award’s noted in his remarks. “This we do because The Future Awards are targeted at building a generation of Nigerians who are committed working to participate in achieving the Nigeria of our dreams and to lead that charge.”

Nominations for the awards kicked off on October 1 and have been extended to November 21. Nominees must be Nigerian citizens and must be aged 18 – 31. Nominations are on www.thefuturenigeria.com and categories include Best Use of Science, Business Owner of the Year, Professional of the Year (Corporate), Creative Artist of the Year, On-Air Personality of the Year and 15 others.

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LINKS TO LATEST LIFESTYLE NEWS

All the links to excite you more are here courtesy of www.gistmaster.com 
 DSTV is going 'tough' with competitors.Quite unbelivable, they have crashed the price to the extent that soon 'aboki' selling sweet and biscuit around the corner of your street will be able to have one.lol...meanwhile right beside you is the picture of the beautiful MD of MNET Africa.
 read the story here DSTV GOES 'HARD' ON COMPETITORS

You can also read about the mother of all 40th birthday parties coming up in Lagos.Princess Cynthia Andrew the top Lagos female socialites and her friends are already painting Lagos red.See the details of the November 21 2010 event here. click HIGH SOCIETY WOMAN, CYNTHIA ANDREW CELEBRATES 40TH IN LAGOS

Read the story of how Spice intends to become Africa's number one lifestyle channel. At a recent press conference in Lagos, the company and their consultant, Mai Atafo reveal their plans Click SPICE TV PLANS BIG FOR 2011
Now, the Big Brother Africa all stars is over and all eyes will now shift to Nigeria in West Africa as the great search begins for the Next Movie Star. Click the link to read the interesting details of the top TV reality show.

NIGERIA:DSTV GOES 'HARD' ON COMPETITORS

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By Niyi Tabiti

By the time you are reading this piece, loads of trailers will still be off loading its content of DSTV dish and decoders in various locations in Nigeria. Why? There is already a mad rush for it.

You can now get a DSTV for N9000. This was something that the least package was sold for about N25,000 some weeks back.

Gistmaster.com correspondent sighted trailers loaded with the dish at Ikeja some days back. "the sudden reduction coupled with other things shows that the company is ready to knock out its competitors off the market" said Garuba Ajilo, a businessman.

The only visible competitor was HITV and since they lost the broadcast rights for European Premiership on its cable channel, it was a big blow that would take sometime to recover. Nigezie, a youth based music channel also left.Though they decided to add up others, it has not been the same again for HITV .

Now with all the peps of showing is several TV channels (especially African magic which is now in different tribal languages), they have been able to come low. Even competitors won't believe that DSTV can now come so low.At the moment, even an 'Okada' rider or roadside mechanic can afford to buy one. A furniture maker who just his own DSTV at the new price of N9000 said that it is unbelievable that he can now use DSTV which use to be categorized a luxury item only meant for the rich.

now, young enterprise, especially football showing centres can now afford to erect to boost their business. Sulaiman Adekoya, a local musician explained to gistmaster.com in Yoruba that it good that the prices of pay TV has crashed in Nigeria. We must thank HITV that  took up the challenge in the first place. They were the ones that brought the price down in the first place being a Nigerian company. They also ensure that enough people get employment by constructing their own viewing centres and charging a stipulated fee so that people can come and watch premiership league.

Before now, only the rich has the opportunity of watching these games in the comfort of their homes.

The price crash seems to be the right period for DSTV. A Nigerian, Uti Nwanchukwu is still the man of the moment as he was recently declared winner of the Big Brother Africa all stars edition packaged by MNET

For those who are keen observers of pay TV in Nigeria,  DSTV has not done badly for a number of reasons. Since Multichoice, a south African company launched it operations  in Nigeria some years ago, it has engaged in many exciting things, though some still think it has not done enough.