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- To Kola Olaosebikan, The Blogger Who's Happy She Left Nigeria
- Family Time - Peter Okoye of PSquare Shows Off His Daughter
- Russel Simmons Apologizes for the Harriet Tubman Sex Tape on his Youtube Channel
- Former Bachelor Contestant Gia Allemand Dead Following An Apparent Suicide Attempt
- Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, Davido at his Sister, Sharon Adeleke's Traditional Wedding
- Femi Fani Kayode Defends Wife and Daughters, Tenders Unreserved Apology to Igbos
- Couple Love - Dakore and Olu Akande
- Top 10 Reasons You're Not Reaching Your Weight Loss Goals
- [Women Online] Adaobi - Makeup Artist at Dobzi Fingers
- Isaach De Bankolé and Danai Gurira Star in Andrew Dosunmu's 'Mother of George'
| To Kola Olaosebikan, The Blogger Who's Happy She Left Nigeria Posted: 15 Aug 2013 09:10 PM PDT  When I came across a video by Kola Olaosebikan talking about the one thing that would make her happily return to Nigeria, I clicked, I listened, I watched, I smiled and I sighed and I decided not to blog about it. She actually said many of us would do that, the typical Nigerian I-don-care attitude, but that still didn't bully me to share. I didn't feel Kola brought enough to the table to engage in a conversation, except maybe her Starbucks coffee. Also, she wasn't saying anything new, and her misguided soapbox ranting was the very last thing I wanted to use to discuss with my readers about the tangled debate between; 1. living in Nigeria, 2. staying back when you have the opportunity to leave, 3. living between Nigeria and another country or 4. thinking of relocating/ just relocated back to Nigeria 4. living outside Nigeria with an interest in the country, or 5. being in complete and utter self-exile. I think Kola is lost and confused between #4 and #5. While the justice system she fingers in her treatise is one of the problematic areas in Nigeria, there is a multi-system failure of leadership and followership in Nigeria that goes beyond just the justice system. Apart from this point, Kola barely makes any other accurate or fair point about those living in Nigeria and those living outside. You can see her video below, and Aribaba of Jaguda.com just wrote a more comprehensive response to her. Re: Why Wouldn't I Leave Nigeria?; A Response To The Video By Kola Olaosebikan - By Aribaba | ||
| Family Time - Peter Okoye of PSquare Shows Off His Daughter Posted: 15 Aug 2013 04:12 PM PDT
I think Peter Okoye of PSquare reads this blog. I've called him out for being quite the domestic man, and and he shows with these pictures that it's a consistent thing and not one off. Peter who recently proposed to his long-term partner and mother of his two children, showed off his baby daughter, named Fiona, as he played racing cars with his son, Cameron. He subtitled them, Family Times, let's ride :)    | ||
| Russel Simmons Apologizes for the Harriet Tubman Sex Tape on his Youtube Channel Posted: 15 Aug 2013 03:02 PM PDT  Russell Simmons has apologized for a video that appeared on his YouTube channel. The "Harriet Tubman Sex Tape" depicts an actress portraying the famous abolitionist having sex with her white master "Massa" in order to allow her to run the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman is an iconic American and an inspirational figure for African Americans and women everywhere. According to her Wiki page, "Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made more than nineteen missions to rescue more than 300 slaves[1] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage." Russell Simmons who has previously been known as quite sensitive to race issues, including supporting The Butler movie, came under intense fire from AA bloggers and on Twitter for the video. The sex tape was quite an insensitive joke and debases the work that Harriet Tubman did, attributing it a white man, and to getting sexual favors. Simmons has now issued an apology on Globalgrind and removed the video. He says in the statemant that he was contacted by his "buddies" at the NAACP asking for removal of the video. "In the whole history of Def Comedy Jam, I've never taken down a controversial comedian. When my buddies from the NAACP called and asked me to take down the Harriet Tubman video from the All Def Digital YouTube channel and apologize, I agreed. | ||
| Former Bachelor Contestant Gia Allemand Dead Following An Apparent Suicide Attempt Posted: 15 Aug 2013 12:09 PM PDT  If you're a fan of the Bachelor series on ABC, you may remember Gia Allemand who was a contestant on Jake's season, she also appeared on Bachelor Pad the year after that. Gia did not hook up in any of those shows, but later started dating a basketball player. However, she still battled with personal issues and a couple of days ago, she attempted suicide. Gia was on life support for a couple of days but had just been reported dead today from "a serious emergency medical event." Her family released a statement saying, "While in her residency in New Orleans on Monday night, Ms. Allemand was found by her boyfriend, NBA basketball player Ryan Anderson, following an apparent suicide attempt." I remember Gia as the smallie with the widest smile, it's such a pity that she's gone. I hope she has found peace. Gia Allemand's boyfriend, NBA player Ryan Anderson, gave the following statement to People:  "I'm deeply grateful for all the love and support we have received from family, friends and fans. Gia was the most beautiful person I knew inside and out and she always smiled and made everyone else around her smile. She had such an amazing impact on my life and anyone that knew her was blessed. All I have left is to cherish those memories we made together and help perpetuate the many values, faith and love that we shared." | ||
| Don Jazzy, Tiwa Savage, Davido at his Sister, Sharon Adeleke's Traditional Wedding Posted: 15 Aug 2013 08:17 PM PDT | ||
| Femi Fani Kayode Defends Wife and Daughters, Tenders Unreserved Apology to Igbos Posted: 15 Aug 2013 10:19 AM PDT  Femi Fani Kayode listed the names of women he slept with, and some faceless journalists concocted baseless allegations against his wife and daughters. To smoothen feathers that have been flying in the past weeks and which denigrated to he said-she said depths over the last few days, Femi Fani Kayode himself has come out to debunk the rumors and tender his personal apology to Igbos and everyone hurt by his ill-thought out articles. At least he's taken some maturity pill, but he really needs a rethink of who he is and what he hopes to achieve by his utterances. His apology below... Ordinarily I would not react to unadulterated rubbish but on this occassion, given the seriousness and sheer absurdity of the allegations, I will do so. In a futile attempt to distract attention from the raging debate that was sparked off by my essays on the igbo/Lagos state issue and in order to exact their revenge on me for some of the positions that I took during that debate a demonically-inspired individual, who I gather was specially commissioned and paid by some unscrupolous individuals, has concoted a venal tale about my wife and children where it is alleged that they ''slept with'' President Olusegun Obasanjo, Vice President Atiku Abubakar, my cooks and my security guards. | ||
| Couple Love - Dakore and Olu Akande Posted: 15 Aug 2013 05:09 AM PDT  They were looking quite stylish together at the last Miss Nigeria event. | ||
| Top 10 Reasons You're Not Reaching Your Weight Loss Goals Posted: 15 Aug 2013 04:04 AM PDT  by Geo Grigoryan Do you feel like you are in an endless struggle to drop your dress size or squeeze into that sexy date night dress? Are you perplexed that your consistent diet and exercise efforts have yielded less than optimal results? You may think you are doing all the right things but it's possible that the diet and fitness protocol you are following is actually preventing you from reaching your goal weight and getting the body you want. Read on for the 10 most common diet mistakes that prevent women from losing weight. 1. Dieting Without Resistance Training What is the most common way women approach weight loss? Crash dieting. If crash diets worked, all women would be healthy and fit. There are two huge problems with crash dieting. One, a lot of the weight lost is muscle tissue. That means that even if you weigh less and fit into smaller sizes of clothing, you are still flabby. The second problem is even worse. Dieting slows down your metabolism. The longer you diet and the less you eat, the slower your metabolism. Muscle is your body's metabolism – when you lose it, you reduce your metabolic capacity. When you eventually get off the diet – and you will get off – you are bound to gain all the weight back in the form of fat. Worse, you will likely end up gaining more weight than you lost. 2. Focusing On The Scale What do you see in the mirror and what does the world see at the beach? Do they see the way your body looks or the number that shows up on the scale? Most women focus on the number on the scale even though it isn't always representative of the way they really look. If you exercise properly, you will build muscle and lose fat at the same time. If you lose five pounds of fat and build five pounds of muscle, the scale won't move, but you will look much better in the mirror and your clothes will fit much better because muscle is more dense and takes up less room than fat. The truth is, how you look and feel has little to do with how much you actually weigh. 3. Focusing On Cardio When you do decide to do some form of exercise, is it invariably some form of cardio? Well, guess what? Cardio is the least important form of exercise for getting a sexy shapely body. The key to getting and keeping a great body is to increase your metabolism. In other words, you need to focus on activities that not only burn calories during the workout, but also cause you to burn calories for hours and days after your workout. Doing metabolic resistance training and interval training are more effective than cardio-only exercise in boosting your metabolic rate. 4. Skipping Breakfast You've heard it before. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But did anyone ever tell you why? When you wake up in the morning, you have been fasting for eight or so hours. Your body is starving for nutrients. When you don't give it any, it starts breaking down muscle for energy. This is bad because your muscle is your metabolism. So you are literally destroying your body's ability to burn calories. Studies have also shown that if you eat a balanced healthy breakfast, you are much less likely to overeat later in the day. And when you start your day with a healthy meal, you are more likely to make good nutrition choices from that point forward. 5. Relying on Pills Diet pills are another common approach that women take to lose weight. There are many different categories of diet pills, but few to none of them actually work (read The Skinny on weight loss supplements). The only time you see women who have gotten in great shape thanks to a diet pill is on the advertisement for the diet pill. A natural, common sense approach is the most effective, safest, and longest-lasting strategy to losing weight. 6. Eating Too Little Eating three square meals is just the bare minimum for a healthy and fit body. You should be eating three meals and at least two healthy snacks each day. Most women eat too little. They skip or skimp on breakfast and then often do the same with lunch. This leaves you running on fumes all day. By the time dinner comes around, you are ravenous and likely to overeat. You end up having your heaviest meal at the end of the day when there is little opportunity to burn off the calories. This is the perfect recipe for gaining fat. 7. Eating Out Too Much If your busy schedule or desire for convenience has you eating out most of the time, you have little to no control over the foods you eat. And simply put, you have little to no control over what you look like and how you feel. If you want to look and feel your best, you need to start cooking. This doesn't mean you spend hours cooking gourmet meals – it meals finding a delicious variety of recipes that you can put together in cinch. And before you eat out, learn about the common pitfalls of restaurant dining and how to avoid them. 8. Emotional Eating Food can evoke both good and bad emotions and it is also a go-to when women feel anxious, depressed, angry, sad, or even elated. Women experience a variety of psychological attachments to different foods. Sweets are often in this category. If you are like most women, all forms of sweets serve as comfort food. If you turn to food when you are stressed, you are letting your emotions control what your eat and how much you eat. If you are going to get the body you deserve, you need to find a way to break this emotional attachment to food. 9. Lack of Consistency Do you remember what happened last January? Wasn't this the year you were going to lose weight and get that sexy body? Chances are, you were good for a short while. But then you started skipping workouts or breakfast, and by February, your New Year's resolutions were just a distant memory. Maybe you'll try again, but the same thing is likely to happen. By now, you have learned that without consistency there will be no results. This means making resolutions and sticking to them. 10. Not Enough Sleep Lack of sleep is an often overlooked factor. If you are doing everything right, but still can't lose the fat, take a look at your sleeping patterns. Are you getting to bed at a reasonable hour? Do you sleep at least eight hours a night? Stress in and of itself compounded by too few hours of shut-eye result in an elevation of the stress hormone cortisol (check out Is stress making your belly fat?). Chronically high levels of cortisol can make losing fat very difficult and can even cause you to gain fat. If you are dieting and exercising and still not seeing the body you want, make sure you aren't making one or more of these 10 common dieting mistakes. Commit to correcting one a week and you will get that sexy shape you deserve in no time. ————— First published on She Knows. And for more diet and weight loss tips, sign-up for Geo's free newsletter at www.SlimGirlSecrets.com. You will also receive a free e-book 46 Must-Have Toning Tips. | ||
| [Women Online] Adaobi - Makeup Artist at Dobzi Fingers Posted: 15 Aug 2013 02:04 AM PDT  My name is Adaobi, my business name is Dobzi Fingers. I am a new, freelance makeup artist. I would say that I discovered my passion for makeup by watching a lot of TV….movies, music videos, red carpet events. From watching all these, I would try to recreate looks on myself. My sisters and mum would always come to me to do their makeup and I realized that I was good at it and I improved each time. Last year after being encouraged by my mum, I decided to turn my hobby and passion into a business. Since then, I have made up a few brides and also done makeup for a few photo shoots.       My inspiration can come from anything….colours, pictures, people. I have a lot of favourite products, some of which are Revlon, NYX, Sleek, Mac, Ben Nye and a host of others. My perfect client - a Dobzi girl like I call my clients - is someone who is open minded, a bit chatty and has good skin. I have a blog (www.dalozone.wordpress.com) where I showcase my makeup looks and a few of my other interests, I can be contacted via Cell Phone: 08154773010, Email: adaokafor@hotmail.com, Twitter : @DobziFingers, Facebook Page: Dalozone Blog. Wishing everyone a good week, xoxo. ___________ Women Online is a new series promoting women who have an online presence. It could be a blog, an e-commerce site, a non-profit/charity. If you're interested in being featured, please email myne@mynewhitman.com | ||
| Isaach De Bankolé and Danai Gurira Star in Andrew Dosunmu's 'Mother of George' Posted: 15 Aug 2013 01:08 AM PDT  Isaach De Bankolé is an Ivorien actor while Danai Gurira is an American actor born to Zimbabwean parents. Both play Nigerian immigrants in America in this new movie, Mother of George, which is written by Darci Picoult, and directed by Andrew Dosnmu. Mother of George was a Sundance breakout movie and got lots of praise for Danai Gurira's performance. Their cinematography also got the top award for the movie makers. Mother of George hits theaters in limited release on September 13th. Check your local theater listings for availability.  Official Synopsis - Adenike and Ayodele (Danai Gurira, Isaach De Bankolé) are a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn. Following the joyous celebration of the their wedding, complications arise out of their inability to conceive a child - a problem that devastates their family and defies cultural expectations, leading Adenike to make a shocking decision that could either save her family or destroy it. Acclaimed director Andrew Dosumnu captures the nuances of this unique and fascinating culture by creating a beautiful, vibrant, and moving portrait of a couple whose joys and struggles are at once intimate and universal. |
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