NIGERIAN-AMERICAN TOP STYLIST SAYS STYLE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS

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Ayo Fashola is used to  'eyes'  traffic anytime she steps out. She is charming to say the least . Anytime she steps out, she is the mobile advert of her business.A graduate of Public Relations from the University of Texas at Arlington, Ayo operates her own Style consulting firm, specializing in the area of personal style and wardrobe management and image development. having worked with top personalities including Ludacriss in his clothing line, Ayo has a wealth of experience that would be of great benefit to her clients.

Ayo is in Nigeria at the moment trying to help women build confidence into their style. she told gistmaster.com that the power of style is unquantifiable because it can move mountains. Now if you need a wardrobe manager that would bring the right touch and even help shop for it, then click www.ayofashola.com

About Ayo Fashola

Image therapist, wardrobe specialist and personal brand strategist are just a few of the strengths and talents, Ayo Fashola, principal style consultant of Ayo Fashola Lifestyle Consulting, has in her arsenal. Highly in tune with emerging trends, she delivers a vi-brant, intuitive and sophisticated approach to assist her clients, ranging from photographers and artists to top level executives en-hance their professional and personal charisma, but also in gaining a competitive edge in their respective fields, while attracting indus-try attention.

With vast experience in public relations, marketing, fashion, and beauty, and with a list of Fortune 500 client/experiences to include YUM! Brands, JP Morgan Chase, Providian Financial, Fidelity, Sprint (formely Nextel), Estée Lauder, Color Me Beautiful, and luxury retailer Barneys New York, Ayo gathered first-hand knowledge of the special desires, wants, unique challenges, and needs of today’s image and style conscious consumer.

Ayo says, “Branding yourself through your personal style is not only for Rockstars and celebrities. The average person has got to stand out from his or her competitors in a positive way in an image-conscious society and hard-work alone will not help and it does not matter how talented you are. If you are not packaged in a way that engages and connects with others, it is just not going to work.”

Ayo Fashola Lifestyle Consulting became as a way to help wom-en weed through the complexities in their wardrobe. Ayo Fashola Lifestyle Consulting Is dedicated to empowering women through their personal style.

“The subject of image and personal style has never been taken seri-ously.” Ayo says. “We’ve been conditioned to believe that caring about the way we look is vain, self-indulgent, and shallow, and in the grand scheme of things, unimportant. But image is integral and relevant within the grand scheme. It is a serious matter, because it affects how we live, the way we feel about ourselves in the world, and how we choose to interact with others. What could be more serious than that?”

Ayo holds a B.A. in Communications with a concentration in pub-lic relations and an added specialty in business marketing from the University of Texas. Ayo has appeared in top Dallas Socialite pub-lications as Papercity, F!DLuxe, Dallas Modern Luxury, The Dal-las Weekly, and Dallas Weekly’s The Journal as well as TV style segments on TX21 News and Metro Channel 8. Ayo also volun-teers as an image consultant and model for Attitude and Attire, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing confidence and self-esteem in women.

Check out her contact details via www.ayofashola.com

OMAWUNMI RELEASES NEW SINGLE TO CHECK SEXUAL ABUSE

By Niyi Tabiti

To many, Omawunmi is funny and electrifying just as she is talented. W at gistmaster.com have watched her the West Africa Idol girl performed and we just love it. The latest gist is that she has released a new hot single from her coming album. It is entitled 'if you want me'

The song follows her award winning debut album, Wonder Woman.

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Omawunmi's new single, gistmaster.com gathered is emotionally provoking with lines resonating on the life of a sexually abused child.Omawunmi's latest work complements her work as an Ambassador for Project Alert, an advocacy group dealing with sexual abuse and reproductive health. The track was produced by newly wedded producer, Cobhams Asuquo. Now if you want to know the latest music the whole world is downloading, now you know!!!

WHEN STORM360/KILIMAJARO SHUT DOWN LAGOS WITH RICK ROSS, NAETO C AND OTHERS

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The Storm 360/Kilimanjaro, Lagos Shutdown Concert, which held on Monday, 27th December, 2010 at the prestigious Expo Center of Eko Hotel will be remembered as the standout show amongst the multitude of events that took place over the festive season.

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The concert, which was expertly anchored by the Beat 99.9 FM’s Olisa Adibua, featured American rapper Rick Ross, as the leading artiste of the show. Also on the team of performers were some of Nigeria’s own finest musicians – Whiz Kid, Ice Prince, Dr SID, Sasha, YQ, Naeto C, MI. Together with the talented DJ Neptune, all the artistes thrilled the audience with hit after hit, while Olisa skillfully knitted each part of the concert into a perfect script. As Rick Ross finally stepped on stage, the expectant crowd went wild – even the VIP guests refused to be left out – screaming along the lyrics as he performed his hit tracks, ‘One Nation Under God’ and ‘BMF’.

For all who attended the show, one thing was obvious – Lagos shut down!

FACEBOOK WON'T SHUT DOWN ON MARCH 15

 By Niyi Tabiti

Following the massive success recorded by  Facebook, the world's number one social networking site, some people are indeed jealous. They have rolled out their machinery of discord and false news, insisting that Mark Zukerberg is going to shut down facebook by March 15 2011. Those creating the false rumour that Facebook would shut down in March 15, aimed at de-marketing the company due to its huge success and the proposed public offer (IPO). 

This rumour reminds one of when people some imbecile said the world would end in the year 2000.

Zukerberg is one of the world's richest billionaires.

 He translated his computer programming ingenuity to vast wealth by connecting people, government and businesses around the world through an exciting social network that might see him worth $14 Billion (Dollars) soon.

UDUAGHAN WINS DELTA GOVERNORSHIP SEAT AGAIN

Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, the ousted Governor of Delta State is back at his seat. The politician who was sacked by a election appeal court was declared the winner the winner of the Delta State gubernatorial re-run election. The resident commissioner for INEC in Delta State, Dr. Gabriel Ada announced him winner yesterday evening. after declaring that he got more votes, far ahead of his other contenders.
 While Uduaghan polled 275,253, his closest rival, Chief Great Ogboru of Democratic Peoples Party  got  138,244 . In fact one of the contenders, Ovie Omo- Agege only got 7,481 of the votes.

GUINNESS PIONEERS NEW INTERACTIVE FOOTBALL & ENTERTAINMENT PLATFORM OF MOBILE PHONES

This week Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, the leading dark beer in Nigeria, announced that it had launched a new innovation for mobile phone users across Nigeria called the Guinness VIP program. Tapping into the digital revolution and a market of over 80million unique mobile phone users, Guinness VIP is Nigeria’s first fully mobile phone-based community of beer drinkers.  Guinness VIP is fully accessible from any WAP enabled mobile phone and provides the user with access to the latest football news, infotainment, chat forums, football trivia, instant messaging and much, much more.

Guinness who are also both the broadcast sponsor of the Barclays English Premier League and the Nigerian Super-Eagles have combined all of these elements to provide football lovers with a really unique opportunity to get the inside track on all the latest news of teams, players and clubs as well as the opportunity to win exclusive prizes and competitions. One of the new features of the GVIP community platform is to allow free membership access, save standard network internet data charges and allows friends and fans communicate with one another for free via the GVIP messenger as long as both are on the platform. This will also allow members to chat and debate about everything that’s going on in the world of football and give their opinion to other GVIP members as well as the opportunity to chat to players.

To join consumers simply SMS the word YES followed by the individuals date of birth (Yes, dd/mm/yy) to 1759. Activation text costs N10, and thereafter the service is free. Alternatively go to http//.m.guinnessvip.com and follow the prompts to register on WAP enabled phones

Ruairi Twomey, Marketing & Innovation Director, Guinness Nigeria Plc, commented “ This is a real marketing departure in Nigeria and is yet another example of how our approach to marketing across the country is rapidly changing so we can better reward our drinkers in ways we wouldn’t even  have conceived of not so long ago. Guinness has always ensured that drinkers get more from our beer than any other and the GVIP program continues that tradition. ”

“The Guinness brand has a really strong reputation in Nigeria for ground-breaking, innovative marketing and this definitely brings us back into that realm. Nigerians haven’t seen anything yet. This is Guinness doing what it does best – rewarding Guinness drinkers using cutting edge technology ” said Guinness Marketing Manager Adenike Adebola.

Guinness VIP launched on November 24^th 2010 and  this application will work on all WAP enabled phones and Guinness have ensured that those with non WAP enabled phones do not miss out – Guinness is providing an SMS based version of the service for these phones.

Guinness VIP is described by the company as “the new cool in football” and brings a total football experience to Guinness drinkers in an exciting and engaging way directly from the convenience of their mobile phone.

XQWIZIT USHERS STRUT RUNWAY AT AURA

In an atmosphere of pomp and celebration, Xqwizit Ushers recently brought together  fans, friends and clients to an unforgettable Monday night party where ushering, fashion and entertainment held sway under a roof.

The event that took place on Monday December 27^th, 2010 by 10pm, started with a red carpet where Xqwizit Ushers’ and guests had a field day was dubbed “XQWIZIT NITE AT AURA”.

The event proper started with an outfit display by Xqwizit Ushers. The ushers strut the runway in different attires that revealed their versatility on the ushering job; from Air hostess uniform to Edo traditional attire through Chinese’s attires and sailor’s uniform, the ushers were simply exquisite.

The compere, Michael the grand commander soon came up to welcome the guests , he also took the guests through the second display of the night where the ushers were adorned in different costumes like the Egyptian, Indian, cheer leader, fairy, Sailor, and referee costume. However the runway display was not only for members of Xqwizit Ushers as guests were also invited to come show their stuff on the runway but that was not the high point of the run way display; the runway display got to a culminant point when Joke Adegun the CEO of Xqwizit Ushers herself walked the runway.

'Michael the grand commander' soon called the host of the day, Ms. Joke Adegun to come up say something; blushing, she came up to thank guests for making it down to the event, she also urged the guests to enjoy the night. Joke Adegun had in an earlier interview disclosed that the aim of the night is to create awareness of our services, showcase our ushers and the different types of outfits we have’. Her speech then gave way to the party proper as guests danced all night till dawn.

A roll call of some of the hi profile events they have handled in recent times is the British American Tobacco team building seminar, Catholic Women’s Organisation annual rose ball, LASAA AGM, TECHNO OIL Christmas party and GTB Christmas party. The imprint of their ushering expertise was also registered at the encomium white gig this month in Lagos.