Ngozi Nwosu, Uche Ogbodo, Others For ‘Top Celebrities Women Leadership Conference’

On Thursday, March 6, 2014, some Nollywood stars would converge in Lagos for a leadership conference tagged: ‘Transforming ideas into wealth’, which holds at the Niteshift Coliseum, Ikeja.

The event is being put together by Top Celebrities magazine. Speakers for this occasion include: Dame Felicia Ngozi Okoli, Mrs. Sally Mbanefo, Dr. Okei Odumakin, Dr. Gloria Elemo and Princess Adeola Ilozohhine.

Some of the stars expected at the event are; Foluke Daramola-Salako, Uche Ogbodo, Clarion Chuwurah, Kayode Salako, Tee Mac, Uche Elendu, Ella Mensah, Ras Kimono, Mike Okri and Efe Kimono.

Others include; Ngozi Nwosu, Dr. Austin Izagbo, Tese Onokala, Mr. Patrick, Queen Ure, Don Leo, Chawa Khalic, Kenni Ayeola and many more.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leonardo DiCaprio lose out as ‘Gravity’ rules at Oscars 2014

Despite ‘12 Years of a Slave‘ winning three awards including the highly placed ‘Best Picture‘ at the Academy Awards aka the Oscars this year, lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor failed to grab the ‘Best Actor in a Leading Role‘ award.

The category which also fielded another favourite Leonardo DiCaprio (who had an outstanding lead role in the movie ‘The Wolf of Wall Street) was won by US actor Matthew McConaughey for his role in the biographical drama film Dallas Buyers Club.

The biggest winner of the night however was British-American 3D science-fiction thriller ‘Gravity‘. The movie which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney won seven awards on the night including ‘Best Directing‘ by Alfonso Cuarón.

Another big winner of the night was ‘12 yeas of a Slave‘ actress Lupita Nyong’o. The Kenyan star who was tipped to win the Oscar, ousted favourites Julia Roberts and Jennifer Lawrence to clinch the award for ’Best Actress In A Supporting Role‘.

Check out the full list of winners below…

BEST PICTURE
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave – Winner
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST DIRECTOR
American Hustle (David O. Russell)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) - Winner
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Christian Bale (American Hustle)
Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) - Winner

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) - Winner
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
Judi Dench (Philomena)
Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street)
Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) - Winner

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) - Winner
Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
June Squibb (Nebraska)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Grandmaster (Philippe Le Sourd)
Gravity (Emmanuel Lubezki) - Winner
Inside Llewyn Davis (Bruno Delbonnel)
Nebraska (Phedon Papamichael)
Prisoners (Roger A. Deakins)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle (Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell)
Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen)
Dallas Buyers Club (Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack)
Her (Spike Jonze) - Winner
Nebraska (Bob Nelson)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke)
Captain Phillips (Billy Ray)
Philomena (Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope)
12 Years a Slave (John Ridley) - Winner
The Wolf of Wall Street (Terence Winter)

BEST FILM EDITING
American Hustle (Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten)
Captain Phillips (Christopher Rouse)
Dallas Buyers Club (John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger) - Winner
12 Years a Slave (Joe Walker)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle (Michael Wilkinson)
The Grandmaster (William Chang Suk Ping)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin) - Winner
The Invisible Woman (Michael O’Connor)
12 Years a Slave (Patricia Norris)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen - Winner
The Wind Rises

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Feral (Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden)
Get a Horse! (Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim)
Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares) - Winner
Possessions (Shuhei Morita)
Room on the Broom (Max Lang, Jan Lachauer)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen)
Cutie and the Boxer (Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher)
Dirty Wars (Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill)
The Square (Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer)
20 Feet from Stardom (Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen, Caitrin Rogers) - Winner

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
CaveDigger (Jeffrey Karoff)
Facing Fear (Jason Cohen)
Karama Has No Walls (Sara Ishaq)
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed) - Winner
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall (Edgar Barens)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy) - Winner
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Dallas Buyers Club (Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews) - Winner
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Stephen Prouty)
The Lone Ranger (Joel Harlow, Gloria Pasqua-Casny)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Book Thief (John Williams)
Gravity (Steven Price) - Winner
Her (William Butler, Owen Pallett)
Philomena (Alexandre Desplat)
Saving Mr. Banks (Thomas Newman)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Happy – Despicable Me 2
Let It Go – Frozen - Winner
The Moon Song – Her
Ordinary Love – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
American Hustle (Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler)
Gravity (Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard)
The Great Gatsby (Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn) - Winner
Her (K.K. Barrett, Gene Serdena)
12 Years a Slave (Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker)

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me) (Esteban Crespo)
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) (Xavier Legrand, Alexandre Gavras)
Helium (Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson) - Winner
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) (Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari)
The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill, Baldwin Li)

BEST SOUND EDITING
All Is Lost (Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns)
Captain Phillips (Oliver Tarney)
Gravity (Glenn Freemantle) - Winner
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Brent Burge, Chris Ward)
Lone Survivor (Wylie Stateman)

BEST SOUND MIXING
Captain Phillips (Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro)
Gravity (Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro) - Winner
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Tony Johnson)
Inside Llewyn Davis (Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland)
Lone Survivor (Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity (Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould) - Winner
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds)
Iron Man 3 (Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, Dan Sudick)
The Lone Ranger (Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier)
Star Trek Into Darkness (Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton)

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Cultists Kill LAUTECH Student

A 100 Level student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho, Oluwadare Ikechukwu Mba, has been hacked to death in his off-campus hostel at Pastor Bode Area, close to Amazing Area of Ogbomosho, Oyo State, southwest Nigeria.

He was allegedly murdered by men suspected to be cultists on Tuesday night.

The killers of Ikechukwu, a student of the Department of Transport Management, were said to have used cutlass to inflict injuries on every part of his body till he became lifeless.

Campus sources told NEWS that the student was in the company of two ladies and they had just returned from the hospital where one of the ladies went for medical check up, when the killers struck.

“The cultists must have been on their trail because they were attacked a few minutes after they arrived at the hostel. Mba tried to run away after the cultists invaded the room but they ran after him and used machetes to attack him till he became lifeless,” one of the sources told our reporter.

The campus has been thrown into a state of unrest as another 200 Level student of Animal Nutrition and Biotechnology Department, identified has Bankole, was also shot dead by cultists at Soun Stadium, Ogbomosho, last week Wednesday.

NEWS learnt  that the parents of Bankole came to take the corpse away for proper burial and no arrest has been made by the police.

The S.U.G election which was to hold on Thursday has been postponed till next week Wednesday because of these killings.

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Olumide Bakare , Eniola Badmus storms Atlanta for movie shot !

Contrary to reports that veteran Nollywood actor, Olumide Bakare is presently down with a heart disease, Reporters discovered that the veteran movie star who was reported to have suffered a major set-back due to heart problem last year is back on his feet.

We learnt that Olumide Bakare is currently on location shooting a new movie with star actresses Laide Bakare and Eniola Badmus in Atlanta, GA.
Also , In a recent interview, the actor said he didn’t request for money from Nigerians to carry out a surgical operation abroad as initially reported in the media.

As he has recovered from his ailment

Wish you all the best sir !

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Davido signs Danagog to HKN

Davido’s record label, HKN, has officially signed upcoming Singer, Danagog.

The signing, which took place on Wednesday, February 26, 2014, will see the artiste call the label home for the next four years. He also signed a management deal with Twenty20 Media, headed by Davido’s manager, Kamal Ajiboye.

The Lagos-based act has been friends with HKN for sometime, and many had speculated a signing was on the way.

Meanwhile, Davido took to twitter to congratulate Danagog, saying, ‘Congrats to @DANAGOG_HKN and @B_RedHKN on ur new signing to the Label and management!!! This year will be great for y’all Amen! HKN!!’

Danagog started his career in 2004 but did not get mainstream attention until 2007 when he released the minor hit ‘Who be that guy’. He is the son of the first female deputy speaker in Nigeria.

Danagog is expected to release his first official single ‘Pelumo’ produced by Shizzi.

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‘My Husband Has No Issue With My Family’ – Joseph Yobo’s wife, Adaeze

if not mistaken family affairs of this kind should not be for the public to hear not talk less of the media...There has been rumours speculating the media for some weeks now that footballer, Joseph Yobo’s in-laws are extremely angry with him because he is yet to marry his wife, Adaeze traditionally and also another controversy that came up a week ago was the question of the actual age of the Super Eagles captain. All this is not true, Yobo’s Nigeria media representative, Abiola Aloba has said.

“The story is a misrepresentation of Joseph Yobo’s marital status. I spoke with his wife, Adaeze in Istanbul, Turkey few days ago, she just laughed it off. She said it’s only her father who can claim such and not one faceless person, who has no trace or identity.”
“The whole thing is a distraction and should not be taken serious. Her mother has been with her for the past one week. I believe if there was a problem she wouldn’t be staying that long in the first place,” Mr. Aloba added. The Igwes from Iru-Owelle village in Awka, Anambra State are said to recognize the Igba Nkwu more than their white wedding. And without that, the marriage is not yet done.

Joseph Yobo and Adaeze were joined in holy matrimony on December 31, 2009, at the Evangelical Bible Outreach Ministries International, Prayer City, Jos, Plateau State. The couple celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary in December 2013. Presently, they are blessed with a baby boy.

However Football analyst, Dudu Orumen had dropped a bombshell claiming Joseph Yobo has no business in the present Super Eagles squad on the basis that he (Yobo) is 40 and not 33 as he claimed. This is coming at a time the former Everton FC of England defender got a recall to the Nigerian national senior team after almost a year of being left out of the team by coach Stephen Keshi.

His official date of birth as listed online is September 6, 1980, and his place of birth is Kano. The footballer left Fenerbache of Turkey in January after seeing few playing times to join Norwich City FC of England on loan all in an attempt to keep fit and make the final squad of Nigeria’s Super Eagles for the World Cup in Brazil in June 2014.

According to Mr. Aloba, “I have tried reaching him on that issue but I couldn’t. I am not sure he would want to be bothered about age controversy because presently he is concentrating on his career. He just joined Norwich City in England and getting playing time is his priority now and not distraction.”
He said finally.

(Additional material from Encomium magazine)

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Faze Wants To Get Married in 2014

In 2013, 2Face got married to Annie Idibia in a luxury wedding in far away Dubai, his former mates from plantashun Boyz members Blackface and Faze have not really spoken about their love life until now that Faze will be joining 2face as married man this year as he has announced he is walking the aisle soon. Faze has been in a relationship with a model & UNIBEN law student named Sandra

"I'm definitely getting married in 2014. It's a must! It's necessary. All my friends are married with kids and I am ready to do that now and God willing it is with the girl I am with now. " He explains. However, the date for the wedding has not be set but he is going to make it known soon…We are still wondering if Sandra is still going to be the one to walk the aisle with him.

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Rita Dominic Endorsed by Keystone Bank

It has been indeed a great year for Rita Dominic, for a while she has not being mentioned as one of those who has been endorsed by any company.This has changed because Dominic has signed an endorsement deal with Keystone Bank, The deal is said to worth millions and the actress is already shooting new commercials for the company.

She is the face of Keystone and the campaign is focusing on the bank's new initiative, which is an account targeting only women, to help them invest wisely. Congrats Rita...More money for her as she smiles to Keystone and picks her money

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O.O.U Presents The Masked Party

 

Rich and Famous Magazine Presents Olabisi Onabanjo University Mask Party. Cancel all your plans and come party INCOGNITO. R & F Magazine is hosting the best mask party ever in O.O.U come party with fun loving singles and celebrities.
There would be a speed dating session where everybody gets a chance for a true hook up. Also there would be drinking competitions where gifts are up for grabs, Shisha and strippers also to give you the best experience ever.
Artist: Phenom, Trapstarr, D’leads, Flexo, Diamond B, Citizen Rash, Stinprof, Roy G and lots more. Comes with mask.
Date 20th March. Ticket 2K, 5K, 30K 

Rich and Famous Magazine Presents Olabisi Onabanjo University Mask Party. Cancel all your plans and come party INCOGNITO. R & F Magazine is hosting the best mask party ever in O.O.U come party with fun loving singles and celebrities.
There would be a speed dating session where everybody gets a chance for a true hook up. Also there would be drinking competitions where gifts are up for grabs, Shisha and strippers also to give you the best experience ever.
Artist: Phenom, Trapstarr, D’leads, Flexo, Diamond B, Citizen Rash, Stinprof, Roy G and lots more. Comes with mask.
Date 20th March. Ticket 2K, 5K, 30K - See more at: http://www.naijawhistle.com/o-o-u-presents-masked-party/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NigerianEntertainmentGistsMusicAndMore+%28Nigerian+entertainment+gists%2C+music+and+more.......%29#sthash.1g1b0A6j.dpuf

Rich and Famous Magazine Presents Olabisi Onabanjo University Mask Party. Cancel all your plans and come party INCOGNITO. R & F Magazine is hosting the best mask party ever in O.O.U come party with fun loving singles and celebrities.
There would be a speed dating session where everybody gets a chance for a true hook up. Also there would be drinking competitions where gifts are up for grabs, Shisha and strippers also to give you the best experience ever.
Artist: Phenom, Trapstarr, D’leads, Flexo, Diamond B, Citizen Rash, Stinprof, Roy G and lots more. Comes with mask.
Date 20th March. Ticket 2K, 5K, 30K - See more at: http://www.naijawhistle.com/o-o-u-presents-masked-party/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NigerianEntertainmentGistsMusicAndMore+%28Nigerian+entertainment+gists%2C+music+and+more.......%29#sthash.1g1b0A6j.dpuf

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PICTURES: FUNKE AKINDELE, MERCY AIGBE, IVIE OKUJAIYE, BIMBO MANUEL, OTHERS AT AMVCA BRUNCH

With just a few days to the much-anticipated Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards (AMVCA), Nigeria’s only premium low sugar malt drink, Amstel Malta treated A-list celebrities and guests to a classy brunch at the WheatBaker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Wednesday, February 26, 2014.

The well-attended event, organised by Multi Choice and hosted by the exciting malt brand, witnessed some of Nollywood’s finest actors and actresses including Funke Akindele, Ivie Okujaye, Mercy Aigbe, Nkiru Sylvanus, Michelle Dede, Bimbo Manuel among many other nominees.

“I'm extremely honoured to be nominated this year for the AMVCAs…for artistes like me, the greatest fulfilment is knowing that our work is being well appreciated” notes multiple award winning actress, Funke Akindele.

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