Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Tiwa Savage bags role on MTV Shuga series


Singer Tiwa Savage has bagged a role on the MTV Shuga series, which starts filming on location in and around Lagos this week.
Tiwa will make her TV debut in Shuga in the role of Sade – glamorous owner of Badoo Tree nightclub, a favorite hangout of the key characters.
The cast will join previously announced Shuga Series 2 stars Emmanuel Ikubese, who returns in the role of music promoter Femi, and Kenyan actor, singer and model Nick Mutuma who plays the role of Leo, a close friend of Femi’s from his Nairobi student days.

Africa Fashion Week brings style fusion to London catwalk

 Teo Kermeliotis
Africa Fashion Week London took place in the UK capital last weekend, hosting the creations of 65 designers from across the continent and the diaspora. Africa Fashion Week London took place in the UK capital last weekend, hosting the creations of 65 designers from across the continent and the diaspora.
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  • Africa Fashion Week London was held from August 1 to 3
  • Inaugurated in 2011, the event promotes emerging and established designers
  • Organizers say they aim to hold the event twice a year and set up a distribution outlet
(CNN) -- Loud music pumps through huge speakers, front row guests cheer and a parade of stunning models electrifies the gleaming catwalk -- welcome to Africa Fashion Week London.
Currently in its third year, the glamorous event saw dozens of big names and up-and-coming designers from across the continent descending on the UK capital's hip district of Shoreditch to unveil their latest stylish creations.
"Our platform is about promoting emerging and established Africa-inspired designers," said Ronke Ademiluyi, founder of the event, held from August 1 to 3.
"The main thing is to bring attention to them, to showcase their creativity to the world so they get more global recognition for what they do and more appreciations for their brands as well."
Vibrant colors
The runways featured designs from countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Kenya and Morocco -- but also from the diaspora, including Britain and the Caribbean.
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In many ways, the event reaffirmed why Africa-inspired designs are fast catching the eye of the fashion world.
Mixing current trends with traditional patterns, more than 60 designers graced the catwalk with a wide array of colorful creations -- everything from show-stopping evening gowns and modern urban casualwear to bold textured prints and chic accessory lines.

Ademiluyi says the continent's fashion today "represents a fusion of contemporary and African designs" awash with "a lot of vibrant colors and tribal trends."
Amongst those giving a modern twist to traditional styles is Nigerian designer Fashola Olayinka with her Lagos-based label "MOOFA Designs." Her latest collection, "Ashake" is celebrating the "very powerful and strong women" who "turn heads wherever they go to."
"That's basically what's the collection is about," says Olayinka, who started the label about four years ago. "Women who are very feminine and sexy."

Jay-Z accused of trying to cheat on Beyonce with up-and-coming female rapper


Liv - who only uses her first name, made the sensational claims about Beyonce's husband during an interview with a New York radio station on Saturday.
She didn't say when the chatting up occurred, but said that Jay-Z was definitely attached when he approached her, wanting to make her "his girl when he was in town".
Liv insists she declined his offer out of respect for Beyonce, and because she wanted to become a successful artist in her own right, rather than via the famous rappers she'd hooked up with.
"I have so much respect for Beyonce - as a artist, as a woman, as a wife, as a mother," she told the radio station.
"I could do lot of grimy things to get in a position where I wanna get… I'll have to look at myself in the mirror after this… and somebody can take that from you, who gives it to you."
She didn't stop there - in new video clip 'The Invasion: Part 2', she details her run-in:
"I could have messed with Jay, but got respect for Bey," she raps.
"We were on the same set of a commercial, see, I was sitting by myself, and he sat next to me. I was handling it well, and he was shocked to see, I was getting up to leave, he sent his guards to me.
"Excuse me Miss, do me a favor, put your number on this piece of paper. When Jay get settled and he’ll call you later. I know most chicks would have took the bait, but then those chicks be the ones I hate. I wonder to this day if I’d have gave it up would it be me on stage throwing it up!"
She told Radar Online that she was disappointed by her experience, hoping Jay-Z had real interest in her music.
"In my mind, I was hoping for so much more," she said. "It was like, that was so personal and not about business at all. I was like, I get it. It started and ended there."
She claims to have run into him a second time and did swap numbers, but says nothing eventuated.
"I thought, 'Ok, this time he’s going to take me seriously,' so I gave him my number and took information," she explained.
"I sent him an email about my music and I never got a response, so I was like, okay, I get it. We never kept in touch but we had a wonderful connection."
For someone trying to become famous for her music rather than her alleged run-ins with hip-hop stars, she's doing a pretty lousy job!

Brave boy takes baby home after rapes



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Cape Argus
The small community outside Ceres where a four-month-old girl and a seven-year-old boy were raped. Photo: Henk Kruger
Cape Town - In total darkness, with a four-month-old girl in tow, a seven-year-old boy from Ceres managed to find his way home after having been raped in the early hours of Saturday.
The man who allegedly raped them has been arrested, the Western Cape police said on Tuesday.
Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut said the 32-year-old man had been taken into custody and questioned in Ceres on Monday night.
The suspect was expected to appear in court soon.
A task team comprising various police units was created to investigate the rapes.
Traut clarified that the children were not siblings as previously reported.
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Provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Arno Lamoer (centre right) stands near the house in Ceres where two children were raped. Photo: Henk Kruger
Cape Argus
At a press conference held at the Ceres police station on Tuesday, provincial police commissioner Arno Lamoer said the rapes were “shocking and disgusting” and they were doing everything in their power to make sure they uncovered the truth.
Lamoer said the top detectives, tactical response team, dog units and the family violence, child protection and sexual offences unit were working on the case.
The four-month-old was at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, where she has had reconstructive surgery, while the seven-year-old had been released into his mother’s care.
Lamoer said the child would not be taken away from his mother or be put in a witness protection programme because the police and the local Community Policing Forum (CPF) were sure he was safe with his parents.
Jan van der Merwe, CPF chairman in the area, said he had been impressed by the response from the police who had been working day and night to solve the case. He added that residents were shocked and angry following the incident.
“We feel that he must stay in jail or residents are going to kill him...
“This is a small town and this is the first time we are dealing with a child rape case like this in the community,” Van der Merwe said.
A short drive from the police station lies Vredebos Farm, where the alleged rape happened.
A dirt road leads from the main road to a row of wendy houses where residents were standing along the street while children played not far away.
Behind the wendy houses is a vineyard where it is alleged that the man took the two children to rape them.
But the wendy house in which the seven-year-old’s family live, stood empty on Tuesday.
Resident Lilian Mentoor said the seven-year-old’s family had lived on the farm for a number of years. The four-month-old’s family were visitors.
Another resident, Mietjie Lambert, said they did not know the man who is alleged to have raped the two children.
“No one knows this guy. We have never seen him before.”
On Saturday morning, Mentoor said, they were woken by police vans and investigators at the scene.
Witzenberg mayor Jacques Klazen and his deputy, Karriem Adams, visited the farm on Tuesday. The area was plagued by drug and alcohol abuse, Klazen said.
Lamoer and his team, which included deputy police commissioner General Peter Jacobs, arrived to show the media the area where the incident happened.
A footpath behind the wendy houses leads to the vineyard which is about 100m from the homes. The police stopped at a ditch where they said some of the baby’s clothes had been found.
Jacobs said that the seven-year-old was brave because he managed to find his way back home, with the four-month-old, and alerted his parents to what had happened.
Back at the wendy houses, Klazen said he wanted to build a crèche for the children on the farm.
Cape Argus

WhatsApp adds voice messaging, crosses 300 million active users

WhatsApp adds voice messaging, crosses 300 million active users
WhatsApp has launched voice messaging, a new feature that allows users to record and send audio messages on their smartphones.
The popular messaging app WhatsApp has launched voice messaging, a new feature that allows users to record and send audio messages on their smartphones.

The new feature is believed to be a brainchild of the US-based company's co-founder and CEO, Jan Koum. WhatsApp is not the first mobile messaging app to feature voice messaging, however, the app maker claims that it offers certain features that differentiates it from the others in terms of usability.

With the updated WhatsApp, a user needs to push and hold to record a message and release to send it. In case the user decides not to send the message, a swipe to the left and the recording is deleted. All this is built into a single tap.

There is also no time limit for recording messages. Also, the volume automatically switches from speaker when held at arm's length to soft when held next to an ear.

The app maker also announced that it now has 300 million global monthly active users, surpassing 20 million monthly active users in four countries: Germany, Spain, Mexico and India.

Now with the introduction of voice messaging feature, the Whatsapp hopes further strengthen its global user base.

Though WhatsApp charges $0.99 from its users after one year, it has never disclosed the percentage of its paid users.

"Now all I want is for Liverpool to honour our agreement." Suarez pleas for Liverpool to let him go


 


LONDON: Liverpool's Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez has accused the club of not honouring a clause in his contract which would let him leave Anfield, in comments published in Wednesday's Guardian.

Suarez repeated his desire to join a club in the Champions League and said that Liverpool had gone back on an agreement written into his contract, signed last August, which obliges them to sell to any club offering more than 40 million pounds ($60.7 million). "Last year I had the opportunity to move to a big European club and I stayed on the understanding that if we failed to qualify for the Champions League the following season I'd be allowed to go," he told the paper. "Now all I want is for Liverpool to honour our agreement."  
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A Lab-Grown Burger Gets a Taste Test

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Mark Post, a Dutch researcher at the University of Maastricht, held a sample of in-vitro, or cultured meat. The project took two years to complete at a cost of $325,000. Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google, paid for the project.

A hamburger made from cow muscle grown in a laboratory was fried, served and eaten in London on Monday in an odd demonstration of one view of the future of food.

A chef preparing to cook the world's first lab-grown hamburger in London on Monday.


"Those who decry it as 'frankenfood' might consider that food animals are essentially treated as production units."
According to the three people who ate it, the burger was dry and a bit lacking in flavor. One taster, Josh Schonwald, a Chicago-based author of a book on the future of food, said “the bite feels like a conventional hamburger” but that the meat tasted “like an animal-protein cake.”
But taste and texture were largely beside the point: The event, arranged by a public relations firm and broadcast live on the Web, was meant to make a case that so-called in vitro, or cultured, meat deserves additional financing and research.
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Nigeria: Father Beheads Son for N1 Million in Adamawa


Yola — The Adamawa state Police command yesterday paraded a 24 year old father, Bappah Alti of Gamji village in Gombi local government area of Adamawa state for beheading his five year old son for N1 million.
Parading the suspect, the command's spokesman DSP Muhammad Ibrahim said the suspect took his son to the farm where he beheaded him. When the suspect's father, inquired about the whereabout of his grandson, Bappah claimed to have left him at the farm and later on a search party organized by the grandfather found the mutilated body of the child without the head.
According to the police spokes-person, the grand father, Alti Alhaji Guja, reported the case to the Police leading to the arrest of his son who confessed in the course of investigation to have killed his son using a stick and a matchete.
Addressing newsmen, the suspect, Bappa Alti confessed to the crime, saying he was engaged by one Alhaji Sange Hassan to deliver the head at the cost of N1 million.
He said he had planned to buy a herd of cattle as well as take care of his family including his aged parents. However, the alleged ritualist , Alhaji Sanje Hassan who is the ward head of Gamji village denied the allegation, insisting it was a set up aimed at blackmailing his person.
DSP Muhammad said as soon as investigations were concluded the suspects will charged to Court for prosecution.
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