Photo of comedian Julius Agwu and Nollywood director Chico Ejiro. They were spotted at an event together.
I don’t know but it looks like Julius might be making a fashion statement that might set the trend for men this season. Check out his smile.
Looks more like his repping mad pple. Just saying see the the combo
Kate Middleton has returned clothes sent to her by Kim Kardashian. The British royal is known for championing high street as well as designer fashion, but didn’t accept a package sent by the reality TV star and her sisters Khloe and Kourtney from their new Dorothy Perkins range.
A source told The Examiner magazine: “Kate is hardly going to turn up for an event with the queen in a cheap leopard-print miniskirt or gold sequined jacket.”
Kim was also said to be keen to meet with Kate while she was recently in London, inviting her for tea.
A source said: “The Kardashians want to be as big in the UK as they are in America, and think associating themselves with the Royals, especially Kate, will help them achieve that. She hoped Kate might be seen wearing one of the designs out in public, which would give their fashion credentials a huge boost.”
Kim, 32, has been vocal about how much she loves Kate’s fashion choices in the past.
She said: “Kate seems like a really sweet person and she’s a princess. We love her sense of fashion. She could wear our looks and team it with one of her hats.”A representative for the Duchess made clear most gifts she is sent are returned.
Her name is Omoyele Ogundipe,an upcoming fashion designer and a fashion blogger. She is an undergraduate of University of The Arts London( London College of Fashion) and has been dating the Mavin musician for a while. Cute couple.
Ever imagine the trauma a blind man goes through daily? Also, ever imagined the pain of the blind man if other people caused his predicament? This is the case of Mr. Isaac Nwabude, of Urunnebo Village, Enugwu-Ukwu, in Njikoka Local Government Area in Anambra State, whose eyes were plucked by robbers.
Narrating his ordeal to us, Nwabude, a former lorry driver, said robbers plucked his eyes, as punishment for daring to run over their barricade and thereby frustrating their operations. According to him, the day the incident happened, in 1992, he was traveling from Jos, in Plateau State, to Onitsha, in Anambra State, with goods and passengers in his Mercedes Benz lorry when they ran into a roadblock mounted by armed robbers, in the night, at Opi Junction, in Nsukka area of Enugu State.
That encounter rendered him blind and has incapacitated his life. On what happened, he said: “At Opi Junction, we ran into a gang of armed robbers, who mounted road block on the way and I had no alternative but to stop because the road block was high and I could not run over it. They opened fire on us and killed four of my passengers, who were owners of the tomatoes I was carrying in the vehicle and inflicted injury on some others.
“The rest of us who were alive and conscious, jumped down from the vehicle and were ordered to lie face down on the road and we did.” Nwabude said that when the robbers discovered that he was the driver of the vehicle, they told him that they would deal with him because he had earlier run over their road block in one of their operations at Ankpa, in Benue State and thereby frustrating their operations.
“When they said that, I concluded that they would either kill me outright or shoot me on the leg or somewhere else to give me permanent disability,” he stated. According to the driver, the robbers tied his hands and legs with the rope they got from his vehicle, and used their sharp knife to pluck his two eyes and left him to his fate. Nwabude said that other drivers came to his rescue when the robbers had gone and took him to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu.
The Lagos State Government on Friday said it had just employed 70 women as truck drivers, as part of efforts to empower women in the state.
The Deputy Governor, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, announced this at a news conference in Ikeja today organised to mark Governor Babatunde Fashola`s sixth year in office.
She said that the women had been trained on driving large vehicles before they were deployed to the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) as waste truck drivers.
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“We are also considering training and empowering women as Taxi drivers. We are currently examining some security risks that these women might face driving taxis.
“But we hope to partner with some hotels in the state on how we can attach some of these female taxi drivers to them, so that we can track who they are dropping off, in case there is a problem,” she said.
These are sad times for Nollywood diminutive actor, Chinedu Ikedieze, otherwise known as Aki who lost his father yesterday to the cold hands of death.
The funny actor made the grieving announcement through a broadcast message on the blackberry instant messaging platform.
“Hello everyone, I just lost my dad” was his statement through a broadcast on Blackberry Messenger.
The cause of his father’s death has not yet been revealed by the Imo State born actor, but sources have however revealed that the late actor’s father died after a brief illness.
Chinedu Ikedieze, MFR is a Nigerian actor. He is best known for playing alongside his screen partner, Osita Iheme. Their breakthrough movie was Aki Na Ukwa
After the final whistle yesterday, Arsenal players and coaching crew exuded emotion associated with winning a title. It looked very awkward and a question begged to be answered, since when has finishing fourth become so prestigious? Then again, that is what a great club like Arsenal have become; celebrating fourth place finishes while new powers emerge and existing ones grow stronger, leaving them to hold on to what has traditionally become their “holy grail”: Fourth place.
Finishing fourth in a season is not in most ways special for traditional clubs like the North London side. Spurs, Malaga and Real Sociedad are clubs that might finish there and erupt in wild celebrations because no one really gave them a shot at that. For them, its called punching above your weight. For Arsenal, its called underachievementm
Evolving from being a championship winning team to top-four chasing team shows the decline of fortunes at Arsenal. While the club continues to make money on and off the pitch, trophies have continued to evade the trophy cabinet. Hugely successful teams like Manchester United, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid have proven on countless occassions that you can win major titles and record staggering profits at the same time. In fact, the aforementioned clubs are richer than Arsenal. So where did it all go wrong?
Winning the English Premier League for a record 20th time is not the only thing the Manchester United boardroom will be happy about these days. Earlier this year, the team unveiled its third quarter financial report, showing that revenue jumped nearly 30% over last year and taking profits to a record high. Revenue surged 29.5% to $145 million. This is a balance of being successful on and off the pitch so, there’s no reason why Arsenal whose revenue rose to £123 million pounds after announcing a profit of £17.9 million in their last financial report sometime in February 2013 should not tow United’s pattern of on field success.
Wenger still possesses the qualities of a top manager and can bring Arsenal back to the glory days but critically, the board need to lay down a benchmark by demanding better standards of the team. For what it is worth, Stan Kroenke does not look like he is passionate about the game. Cynics may even argue that all he cares about is profit. But that is not to say Wenger should not have achieved better success in recent times.
In the last two transfer windows, Wenger reportedly had £40-50 million to spend but like we all know, he has not spent much and that could be because of one reason: His pride in wanting to lead this supposedly group of players who lack the “necessary quality” to win a title. It will be his own way to shutting up the critics but until that happens, critics will keep going for the jugular and deservedly so.
Should the scenario change in the boardroom and trophies are demanded of Wenger, a faliure to deliver may well result in a sack and that won’t be the end of the world for Arsenal. Yes, stability is great and all but in today’s football, firing and hiring also gets results. Chelsea won the Champions League only a couple of weeks after Andre Villas Boas was sacked and replaced by Roberto Di Matteo; PSG won the Ligue 1 this season under Ancelotti who took over Charles Kamboure in the middle of last season; and Atletico Madrid have enjoyed huge success in just over a year after replacing Walter Manzano with Diego Simeone who has gone on to win two major European trophies and the Kings Cup beating eternal rivals Real Madrid on the way.
In the end, its a shame to see a side of Arsenal’s history celebrate like they did after defeating Newcastle almost as though they had won the title but that is what they have become and will remain unless something drastic changes at the Emirates this summer.
Ivan Dougan is a sports pundit on various media. He’s also a football writer and the Media Officer of C.O.D United Football Club, Lagos. He tweets at @ivanlotti
