Vanessa Funmilola Invites You To Celebrity Salon Reality TV Show Auditions @ Goethe Institut Lagos

Vanessa Funmilola Oguntokun.

Celebrity Salon Reality TV SHOW, Nigeria
Celebrity salon model audition selection!!!

Date: 22nd and 23rd November 2012
Venue:Goethe-institute German Cultural Center,
Lagos City Hall,
Catholic Mission Street,
Opposite Holy Cross Cathedral, 
Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria.
Time:9am
Opportunity is opened to models and prospective models(male/female) between ages 16-30.
For more info:contact Samantha(08035431645)

Vanessa Funmilola Oguntokun is one of the judges of Celebrity Salon Nigeria. She is the CEO of Vanadale Nigeria. A beauty company with over five years of experience in the beauty industry.she is a certified biochemist and nutritionist, however her love for colors, beauty and small business propelled her to start Vanadale. Today the company boasts of a team of young and vibrant persons and over 20 contract workers.

For more details, log on to CELEBRITY SALON NIGERIA REALITY TV SHOW

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Top French Cities

14 Nov 2012 18:53 Africa/Lagos

French Tourist Office Showcases Top French Cities



NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty seven French cities have come together to promote their many assets, plus offer a dream trip to a lucky winner.

Atout France – the France Tourism Development Agency, along with their Cities Promotion club, Air France and Rail Europe , has just launched a major media campaign called " Top French Cities: Map Your Way Through the Urban Gems of France " to highlight some of France's top regional cities.

The campaign includes a quiz that matches participants to different cities in France, ranging from the beautiful southern cities of Marseille, Montpellier and Nice to the bustling northern cities of Reims, Dijon and Nancy, where wine, gastronomy and culture are at its best. Participants will find out their city match after deciding if they prefer Riesling to Champagne, if they'd rather spend their evening at a museum or the theatre, and if they would rather be surrounded by Gothic or Art Deco architecture, among other questions. Participants will also get access to exclusive deals and insider tips from the cities themselves.

Consumers are invited to use #TopFrenchCities to be part of the conversation on Twitter.

The campaign will reach nearly four million people, including subscribers of The New York Times, Lonely Planet, Food & Wine, Luxury Travel Magazine and Saveur.

About Atout France-the France Tourism Development Agency

Atout France is a government agency whose role is to promote and develop France's tourism sector as a whole. As the French government's sole operator regarding the promotion of all aspects of tourism in France, Atout France provides information to the general public and services and events for tourism professionals. The agency works in partnership with public and private organizations and companies involved in the tourism industry, i.e. over 1100 members representing the whole spectrum of France's tourism sector. Its network is made up of 350 people working in 33 offices in 28 countries.

See our press corner for the latest news on travel to France.

SOURCE Atout France-the France Tourism Development Agency

CONTACT: Tiana Rakotoson-Gamez, Manager, Marketing and Promotions, +1-212-745-0959, Tiana.rakotoson-gamez@atout-france.fr

Web Site: http://us.rendezvousenfrance.com

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David Beckham Travels by Breitling

David Beckham Travels by Breitling

LONDON, November 14 /PRNewswire/ — Breitling has chosen David Beckham as the face of its Transocean Chronograph Unitime worldtimer watch. The new campaign establishes a long-term partnership between this innovative and historic Swiss brand and one of the world’s most celebrated icons.

Appropriately, given its long-established ties with aviation, the sky has always been the limit for Breitling. The brand has proved this throughout its history by creating a number of travel watches including the famous Unitime in the 1950s and 60s.

In the spring of 2012, Breitling added the Transocean Chronograph Unitime to the Transocean range. Equipped with the new Manufacture Breitling Caliber B05 featuring a patented mechanism, this worldtimer chronograph has asserted itself as the ultimate travel watch thanks to its double disk, which enables permanent readings of the time in all 24 timezones, and its ultra-user-friendly crown-operated correction system.

One of the world’s most successful sportsmen and style icons, David Beckham stars in the Breitling advertisement featuring a highly evocative visual shot by renowned American photographer Anthony Mandler. On the runway of the Mojave Air & Space Port in California, this striking image shows Beckham standing in front of a private jet wearing his Transocean Chronograph Unitime.

“I’ve always been a long-time admirer of Breitling,” said David Beckham. “As a company they create not only the highest-performance watches but also timeless designs that have inspired generations. It was a natural choice for me to partner with this fantastic brand.”

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3rd Eko International Film Festival Pulls More Crowds on Closing Day

3rd Eko International Film Festival Pulls More Crowds on Closing Day

Aloysius Onyejegbu, Nollywood actor and Festival Coordinator of Eko International Film Festival smiling beside Mr. Fidelis Duker, prolific Nollywood filmmaker and Founder/CEO of Abuja International Film Festival with President of Eko International Film Festival Mr. Hope Obioma Opara and Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, Founder/Festival Director of Eko International Film Festival on the opening day at the atrium of the Silverbird Galleria on Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.

Aloysius Onyejegbu, Nollywood actor and Festival Coordinator of Eko International Film Festival smiling beside Mr. Fidelis Duker, prolific Nollywood filmmaker and Founder/CEO of Abuja International Film Festival with film producer Tony Godson and Felix Omokagbo Jegede, Festival Coordinator, Screen Outdoor Open Air Cinema. on the opening day at the atrium of the Silverbird Galleria on Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria.

People at the atrium of the Silverbird Galleria on the opening day of the 3rd Eko International Film Festival Saturday evening November 5, 2012.

The third Eko International Film Festival closed with an impressive audience Saturday night as Michael Oke’s white guy dating black girl love story ?Foreign Love and the world premiere of C.J. Obasi’s Jim & Joan attracted more people than the opening day as the crowd of movie lovers and others who came to the event left satisfied and commended the organizers, Supple Communications Limited.

President of Eko International Film Festival Mr. Hope Obioma Opara with Founder/Festival Director Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima and Festival Coordinator Aloysius Onyejegbu, aka 2MS.

Mr. Hope Obioma Opara, Aloysius Onyejegbu and associate Tony Godson.

From the inaugural edition in 2010 to the third edition, Eko International Film Festival has attracted top filmmakers from the host country Nigeria, the US and Europe such as the multiple awards winning documentary filmmaker and political rights activist Iara Lee, the Korean born Brazilian whose latest documentary film The Suffering Grasses on the current Syrian Crisis was seen in West Africa for the first time and rated as the best documentary feature of the film festival ahead of the multiple awards winning Project Happiness of Randy Taran and John Sorensen and other good documentaries in the official selection of the third Eko International Film Festival. The opening film Nicolas Wadimoff’s Operation Libertad was the most outstanding feature. Noel Gálvez’S Blue Sheep was rated as the most outstanding short documentary for its profound illustration of the triumph of the human spirit in spite of the challenges of survival in a hostile environment as shown in the magical story between a documentary and a fictional plot set in Villamayor de Campos in Zamora (Spain) where many neighbours are affected by Cancer, caused by an energy tower.

Mr. Hope Obioma Opara with C.J. Obasi, director of Jim & Joan.

Mr. Hope Obioma Opara with two Heineken hostesses.

A Nigerian actor Jean Abbey who played the role in Jim & Joan with Mr. Hope Obioma Opara and C.J. Obasi, director of Jim & Joan.

Niji Akanni’s Heroes & Zeroes was rated as the most outstanding Nigerian film and also the most entertaining for the audience ahead of Foreign Love by American based Nigerian filmmaker Michael Oke. CJ Obasi’s debut Jim & Joan was the most daring and scary film at the film festival with hints of Lars von Trier’s outrageous expressionism that the young Nigerian filmmaker said has influenced his themes.

What makes a successful film festival is the quality of the content and over ninety percent of the 22 films screened at the third edition of the film festival have been award winning films at other major international film festivals in Europe, US and Asia. But any film festival is not complete without film workshops and film markets for filmmakers, distributors and others and they have been missing at every edition of the Eko International Film Festival. And competitions have been excluded for now, because of lack of funds and inadequate logistics. The much publicized maiden Nollywood Divas Awards that would have been the high point of the third Eko International Film Festival was postponed until further notice, because the organizers did not receive the cooperation of the Actors Guild of Nigeria ((AGN) due to factional disagreements and petty rivalries among the members who have been boycotting the film festival after their attempts to dictate to the organizers failed.

One of the top nominees of the Nollywood Divas Awards Rita Dominic the best actress at the 2012 Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) and another nominee were seen at the 2012 Kuramo Conference same Saturday night at the Conference Centre of Eko Hotel & Suites International and they wondered how the organizers could launch the awards without any formal invitation given to the 20 nominees.
“The organizers have not done the right thing, that is why we cannot attend the film festival,” said one of them.

But Mr. Hope Obioma Opara, President of Eko International Film Festival said he actually invited everyone of them through a formal official letter of invitation addressed to Ibinabo Fiberisima, President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN) which was the right thing to do. In fact, he also met with former president of the AGN, Ejike Asiegbu and Zik Zulu Okafor, President of the Association of Movie Producers (AMP) months ago, but internal disputes caused by different interest groups in the guilds have made him to postpone the Nollywood Divas Awards till 2013.

“We are still going to launch the maiden Nollywood Divas Awards sponsored as a separate event before the next Eko International Film Festival,” said Mr. Opara.
He thanked Heineken, Silverbird Cinemas, Silverbird TV, Galaxy TV, National Mirror, Daily Sun, The Nation, The Guardian, Entertainment Express, Daily Champion, OnoBello and others for their cooperation and support to make the third Eko International Film Festival a successful event and increasing his determination to improve the standards in the future editions regardless of the challenges.


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Nigerian and Cameroonian Journalists Face Unlawful Assembly Charges in Cameroon

Activists press for secession from Cameroon on October 1. (Le Messager). Photo Credit: Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Bashiru Edua, Editor of African Drum magazine in Jos, Nigeria and Martin Yembe Fon, Editor of The Frontier Telegraph of Cameroon were arrested last month in the southwestern town of Buea in Cameroon for covering a secessionist gathering. The two are free on bail, but face fines and up to six months in jail.

The Committee to Protect Journalists Friday November 9, 2012 called on Cameroonian officials to drop criminal charges against  the two journalists, but same day the court heard their defense and the case was adjourned until March 14, their lawyer, Ajong Stanislaus Anuaboudem, told CPJ.

The following is a press statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). 

9 Nov 2012 05:05 Africa/Lagos

Two Journalists Face Unlawful Assembly Charges in Cameroon

NEW YORK, November 9, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Cameroonian officials to drop criminal charges against two journalists who were arrested last month in the southwestern town of Buea for covering a secessionist gathering. The two are free on bail but face fines and up to six months in jail.


Martin Yembe Fon, who is editor of local newspaper The Frontier Telegraph, and Bashiru Edua, a Nigerian national and editor of African Drum magazine publishing in Jos, Nigeria, still face charges of unlawful assembly. Today, the court heard their defense and the case was adjourned until March 14, their lawyer, Ajong Stanislaus Anuaboudem, told CPJ.


Fon and Edua were arrested on October 1 as they tried to cover a gathering at a local church, according to news reports and local journalists. Police officers stopped Fon and Edua and seized their press cards before ordering them to go inside, Fon told CPJ. "While in the church, we took pictures of the over 100 activists and church officials praying," he said. "Midway into the prayers, a large contingent of policemen invaded the premises with police vans, ordering all to walk into the vans or be brutalized."


Fon and Edua were driven along with the others to the central police station in Buea, where they were interrogated, fingerprinted, and photographed, leading independent daily Le Messager reported. After 10 hours of detention, they were taken to court and charged with unlawful assembly under Section 231(a) of the Cameroonian Penal Code, defense lawyer Anuaboudem told CPJ. The charge carries a maximum sentence of six months in prison and a fine of 100,000 CFA francs (US$200). The journalists pleaded not guilty and were released on bail at midnight on October 2, after six hours at the courthouse, Fon said.


Police have not returned Fon's digital camera or recorder, he said.



"Martin Yembe Fon and Bashiru Edua were apparently unconvenient witnesses to a crackdown on a gathering of secessionists, an issue of national public interest the Cameroonian government would rather suppress," said CPJ Africa Advocacy Coordinator Mohamed Keita. "We urge Cameroon authorities to drop charges against the two journalists, who were doing their job."


The activists had gathered to commemorate the date in 1961 on which the local province--formerly under British colonial mandate as Southern Cameroons--became part of the French-speaking Republic of Cameroon, according to the journalists and news reports. For the government, the date is a commemoration of national unity, but locals use the occasion to renew long-standing demands for secession from Cameroon. Le Messager quoted an unnamed police officer as saying that security forces stormed the church to prevent the group from staging a protest march after the service.


At an October 19 press conference, Cameroon government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary denied that journalists are detained in the country for their work, according to news reports. He was speaking in response to joint findings by CPJ, PEN International and France-based Internet Sans Frontières that investigating corruption and reporting on political unrest are punishable acts for Cameroonian journalists. "We can observe, while regretting it, that certain ordinary citizens, journalists by profession, sometimes find themselves in our prisons, following accusations based on common law offenses, punishable by criminal law," Bakary said.


Source: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

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Obama’s Victory is A Beacon Of Hope To All – Princewill

OBAMA’S VICTORY A BEACON OF HOPE TO ALL – PRINCEWILL


Prince Tonye Princewill the Rivers state PDP stalwart and leader of Princewill Political Associates (PPA) has described the re-election of Barak Obama as a beacon of hope to all and a triumph of democracy. “This is truly remarkable and a sign of the triumph of hope over cynicism, the reward of hard work and evidence that if people take their fate into their own hands, they can rewrite their own history. I have always said politics is far too important to be left to politicians and I was glad to see ordinary Americans do what they do best. Write their own destiny”.

The Prince went on further to say, “We in Nigeria have a lot to learn from this great exhibition of people power. Nobody there played victim, everybody there showed an ability to stand up and fight not just for themselves but for each other. A love for their country symbolised in a simple and enduring patriotic spirit Nigerians would do well to think deeply about”.

Even as he celebrated with Americans and all well-meaning progressives, he warned Obama to remember his African roots even more in his final term. He urged Obama to take a deep interest in African issues particularly the promotion of investment in Africa as the security of the world and its financial sustainability lay in the continent.

He commended Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate for demonstrating statesmanship not only by conceding victory to the will of the people but for the manner and tone by which he did so. He urged Nigerian politicians to emulate this example as Nigerians were getting more and more aware of their power. “If we are to move our democracy forward the Prince concluded, we must listen to the voices of our people.

The pictures attached are that of Prince Tonye Princewill and Mrs Rosemary Princewill at Dubai recently.


~ Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,
Media Consultant, PPA.

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World Premiere Of Jim And Joan On November 10 @ Silverbird Galleria, 5pm

The world of premiere of Jim & Joan: A Voodoo Tale (Feature) directed by C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi will close the 3rd Eko International Film Festival (EKOIFF) on Saturday November 10, 2012 at the Silverbird Galleria on Victoria Island, Lagos.



SYNOPSIS
A runaway Voodoo priestess is led to a young man. They become a couple and he is trapped in her snare of black magic, lost in her seduction, and supernatural domination he becomes helpless and finds himself a mere instrument in the hand of a higher, darker force and an even more sinister agenda, beyond his wildest imaginations.


The closing ceremony starts at 5 pm with a repeat of the romantic film Foreign Love by Michael Oke and Jay Wiggs of USA.

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