Amber Rose Says Breastfeeding Is “So Worth It”

 

 
Since stepping onto the scene as a video vixen-turned-Kanye’s ex-girlfriend, Amber Rose has always been known for her lovely lady lumps.
Almost a week after the birth of her first son Sebastian “The Bash” Taylor Thomaz with fiancee Wiz Khalifa, the bald-headed beauty finally knows what it feels like to serve milk au naturale.
“Man breastfeeding is awesome. It kinda hurts though,” she wrote on Twitter Tuesday (Feb. 26) about feeding. “But the bonding with my baby is unbelievable. So worth it.”
While the 29-year-old has only played momma for her pet bulldogs, Rose can’t seem to stop gushing over her newfound motherhood. ”We can’t stop staring at Sebastian. He’s beautiful!” she wrote on the social site. “He’s the perfect mixture between me and Wiz. He has Wiz’s Lips and my round head. LOL.”
She and the “Black and Yellow” rapper became engaged in March 2012 and welcomed Bash on Feb. 22.

Sevyn Streeter Rocks Givenchy Paris, Giuseppe Zanotti for ‘Rip The Runway’

 

BET’s Rip The Runway 2013 was all about the upcoming fashion and new designers that we should watch for this spring. With hosts Kelly Rowland and Boris Kodjoe stylishly moving the show along, performers also lived up to the fashion standards, particularly Sevyn Streeter, who added a little peek of skin to her ensembles.

On the red carpet, the “I Like It” singer adorned a Givenchy Paris two-piece get-up while accentuating the look with Giuseppe Zanotti heels. Once it came time to shut the stage down, Sevyn performed in a Phillip Lim track suit and Alexander Wang shoes, not forgetting her accessories with a Celine necklace.

Photo Courtesy of BET

Kelly Rowland, Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Teyana Taylor and More at BET’s ‘Rip The Runway’

Last night (Feb. 27), BET’s 9th annual Rip The Runway brought many stars to enjoy the debut of today’s up and coming designers. Held at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, hosts Kelly Rowland and Boris Kodjoe set the tone for a fun atmosphere with their playful on-stage chemistry.
Artists–including Omarion, Meek Mill, Trinidad James, Rick Ross, Luke James, Watch The Duck, and Sevyn–performed their hits while models strutted the runway in bathing suits, street wear, business attire and plus-sizes threads.
However, it was the Smith family that took the night. During Jaden Smith’s performance of his new clothing line Misfts, little sis Willow surprised the crowd as she walked in one of her brother’s ensembles.



Boris Kodjoe

Jaden Smith

 
Boris Kodjoe and Kelly Rowland 

 
Kelly Rowland

 
Rick Ross

 

Titanic Replica Plans: Titanic II To Sail Across The Globe In 2016

The sunken ship that spawned a blockbuster film (and an uberdramatic Celine Dion ballad) is getting a resurrection, thanks to a Titanic replica plan.
Billionaire Clive Palmer pulled back the curtain Tuesday on the design of the Titanic II, a new cruise ship modeled after the original, that will be built in China and is to set sail in 2016, according to USA Today.
The Australian businessman says the ship "will be a financial bonanza" after receiving an overwhelming response from prospective passengers that prompted him to design the ship.
The plan has been met with some criticism as cruise-ship experts believe it offends the memory of those who died on the Titanic, which sank in April 1912 and took the lives of 1,500 passengers.
The second model is designed to be 883 feet long – 3 inches longer than the original Titanic– and weigh 55,800 gross tons, according to Palmer. It will carry a maximum of 2,435 passengers and 900 crew members. The ship will include a gymnasium, Turkish baths, a squash court, a swimming pool, a theater, a casino and the grand staircase as made popular in the flick of the same name.
The first voyage is scheduled to be from Shanghai to Southampton, England, and then on to New York.

LASU Student Shot Dead In Broad Daylight Attack

Damilola Olaniyan's album cover

By SaharaReporters, New York

Budding hip hop artist Olaniyan Damilola, popularly known as "Damino Damoche," was shot dead this afternoon by suspected campus fraternity gangs at the Lagos State University.
The incident took place at about 4:30 p.m. Nigerian time.  Eyewitnesses said Damoche's assailants apparently trailed him on a motorbike after he finished a class test in Banking and Finance. He was a 400 level student.
The attack appears to be a reprisal attack from a rival gang, as Damoche was known to be a member of the Eiye Confraternity.  Members of that confraternity took to Twitter to promise reprisals on his assailants.
Damoche was shot twice, in the head and on the left hand, with what appeared to be a high caliber weapon.  He lay dead for several hours before policemen took his body away in a pick-up van.
Lagos State University has been the scene of bloody campus gang confrontations since the 1990s.

Judge Postpones Okah’s Sentence To March 18th 2013-CHANNELSTV

Henry Okah

By Channelstv.com

The judge presiding over the sentencing of Henry Okah in the Johannesburg High Court, Neels Claassen has postponed the case again to the 18th, 19th, and 20th of March.
Although the judge had said he would not allow any other postponement, he said he had to do this in order to give Mr. Okah’s new legal team time to get used to the notes left by the old legal team.
The new team led by Gerrit Miller requested for the time following the withdrawal of the former team led by Lucky Multulanla.
The prosecution described the request as a ploy to delay the delivery of justice but Judge Claassen went ahead to grant the plea because, as he said, he didn’t want to force the new team.
If the hearing had held today, witnesses from Nigeria and the United States would have testified in a bid to mitigate the sentencing of terror suspect, Henry Okah following the request of his former attorney, Mr. Multulanla at his last appearance on the 1st of February, to give witnesses time to get to South Africa to testify.
Mr. Okah intended calling at least five people to testify.
He was found guilty in January of 13 counts of terrorism, including engaging in terrorist activities, conspiracy to engage in terrorist activities, and delivering, placing, and detonating an explosive device.
The charges related to two car bombs in Abuja, Nigeria, in which 12 people were killed and 36 injured on October 1, 2010, the anniversary of the Nigeria’s independence, and another two explosions in the southern Nigerian city of Warri, earlier in March 2010.

24 hours with the BlackBerry Z10

Our hands-on preview of the first BB10 handset and the BB10 OS

BlackBerry 10 and the two phones, the BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10, launched just over 24 hours ago. We've spent that time living with the BlackBerry Z10 and here's our initial thoughts, all wrapped up as a big shiny hands-on preview...

The phone: First impressions of the BlackBerry Z10



As the first official BlackBerry 10 phone, there’s a lot of responsibility resting on the Z10. This is the first big showcase of BlackBerry’s new OS, and as much as BB is bigging up its software, it ain’t much good without some decent hardware to back it up.

Our first thirty seconds with the Z10 raised some mixed emotions. In the hand it feels a good weight, with enough heft to stay rooted to your palm, helped by the mottled soft-touch rear. It’s longer and chunkier than the Apple iPhone 5, more comparable in size to something like the LG Nexus 4. It’s not even far off the Samsung Galaxy S III for width and height, and noticeably thicker.

Business look



BlackBerry has gone for a typical no-nonsense business design, so don’t expect any splashes of colour or sexy curves. It’s an all-black finish, with plastic borders above and below the screen and around the rim, and a rubbery-feeling back plate. It doesn’t scream sexy, but it does look like a serious business phone. The 4.2-inch screen sits dead centre on the front panel, with some sizeable borders all around it – roughly 2cm both above and below, and a half cm either side.

The dead-centre power button on the top of the BlackBerry Z10 seemed oddly positioned at first, but our finger soon got used to stabbing there every time we picked the phone up. You have volume controls on the right edge, with a button in between for loading up BlackBerry’s Voice Control (a take-off of Siri and Galaxy Voice). Mini HDMI and Micro USB ports are found close together on the opposite edge.

Take it off



The back plate of the BlackBerry Z10 can be quickly and easily prised off to access the long removable battery, SIM card slot and Micro SD memory card slot. Somehow the back doesn’t feel very secure when it’s attached, however, and along the bottom edge we could never get the plate to sit firmly against the phone – there was always a teeny gap, and the two can be separated with very little effort. We can see the entire backing spinning off if the phone is dropped.

The OS: First impressions of BB10

We’ve already had a quick play with BB10 and commented on its big features, but this was our first proper length of time with the new OS. Set-up is reasonably simple, you just create or sign in with your BlackBerry ID and then you can crack on with setting up any other accounts (Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on). We had no troubles here, even if it took a fair while to accomplish.

Swipe out

As regular users of both Android and iOS, we struggled at first with BB10’s layout and swipe gestures. We’re all too used to returning to our Home Screen with a prod of a button, but here you have to swipe up from the bottom of the screen. We’re sure given a few days of constant use, we’d be doing it without even thinking about it. For now, it still feels unnatural.



The ‘Home Screen’ is actually a scrollable grid of the last eight apps you’ve opened, which is handy if you find yourself constantly using two or three in particular. Swipe left and you get all of your app icons, which can be rearranged in whichever order you like – not far off Apple’s iOS. They even pulse as you switch them around, similar to iOS’s incessant jiggling.



However, swipe right instead and you get the BlackBerry Hub, BB10’s beating heart and a rather nifty way to see all of your notifications at once. This is where your emails, Facebook notifications, etc all gather in one glorious mound of sociability, organised by date. You can search for specific posts or quickly bash out a tweet, email and more, but if you want to actually access your profiles and see what your contacts are Tweeting, Facebooking or whatever else, you’ll need to load up the individual apps. Still, the BlackBerry Hub is neatly presented and it’s easy to turn individual accounts on or off to suit your preferences.

Board of life

BB10’s keyboard is an interesting and feature-packed affair too. The board itself is well laid-out with plenty of neat shortcuts (for instance, long-press the spacebar to hide the keys) and the usual massive selection of weird smileys.



Start typing on it and you’ll notice words appear above some of the keys – this is BB10’s predictive text. For instance, type ‘hap’ and you’ll notice the word ‘happy’ appears above the ‘p’ key. Your eyes will naturally be drawn to the p key as that’s the one you’re set to hit next. If you want to complete the word, simply flick up from that key and it appears whole in your message.



This predictive text is more likely to help out slower typists, and we personally found we rarely used it. Still, it’s a sign of BlackBerry doing things with its own unique twist rather than copying the crowds.

Hear me now

BlackBerry’s Voice command service is similar to Siri and Samsung’s Galaxy Voice, allowing you to open up apps and access the main features just by shouting at your phone. We found it did a reasonable job of picking up our commands providing we spoke slowly and pronounced every syllable clearly, even with our accent which has a slight Northern twang.



At first we struggled to get it to do anything, because we were using slightly wrong commands. For instance, to open the camera, you can’t say ‘open the camera’. No, that’s bad! You have to say ‘open camera’, and it’ll do it without fuss. Likewise, to send a text message you can’t say ‘send a text’, you need to bark ‘text {insert contact name}’.



Like all voice services, we’re sceptical as to whether most users even bother to open them, except to see how many rude words they understand. Sadly BlackBerry Voice seems to be completely personality-free, unlike the loveable Siri.

Smooth operator

BB10 runs like oil off Jason Bradbury’s baldy skull on the BlackBerry Z10. When we first set it up we noticed some lag getting into emails and with the Hub updating, but we’re chalking that up to first-day jitters as it’s been absolutely fine since. Zipping in and out of menus is a smooth experience, and we rarely found ourselves waiting around. Browsing the web is particularly nippy, with pages loading up almost instantly over good ol’ 4G.

Battery life seems reasonable from the first 24 hours. We finished charging the phone at 10pm last night, and at 4.30pm the following day it has 10% remaining, after a substantial amount of messing around. We’ll be sure to keep on using the BlackBerry Z10 over the coming days and report back on how media use and more drains the battery.

Airtel Launches BlackBerry Z10

Wole Abu, General Manager, Acquisitions, Airtel Nigeria (M) presenting the newly launched BB Z10 from Airtel Nigeria to Mr Richard Giwa-Osagie, Chairman of Ikoyi Club (L) while Tunji Okesola, Entertainment Chairman, Ikoyi Club 1938 (R) looks on at Ikoyi Club.

Leading telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has become the first mobile operator in the country to announce the availability of latest BlackBerry Z10 Smartphones in its show rooms across the country.

Airtel Customers who had pre-ordered for the device online and through its retail outlets across the country can now take delivery of the Smartphones at their preferred locations. 

Wole Abu, General Manager, Acquisitions, Airtel Nigeria (M) presenting the newly launched BB Z10 from Airtel Nigeria to Mr Richard Giwa-Osagie, Chairman of Ikoyi Club (2nd R) while Dr. Aderemi Desalu MNI, representing Governor Raji Fashola of Lagos State (L) and Mrs. Moji Giwa-Osagie, Wife of Chairman of Ikoyi Club (2nd L) look on. at Ikoyi Club.

Speaking at the prestigious Ikoyi Club, venue of the launch, Airtel’s Chief Marketing Officer, Olu Akanmu said the company is delighted to be the first operator in the country to move beyond the pre-ordering process to the commencement of actual sale and distribution of the BlackBerry Z10 device to Nigerians.

Akanmu stated: “Airtel would continuously seek to consolidate its position as a pioneer of innovation in the telecoms landscape, in line with its vision of being the most loved brand in the daily lives of Nigerians. Our superior and widest 3.75G coverage across the country would further complement the distinctive computing features of the smartphone to provide customers with a delightful internet experience round-the-clock, irrespective of their location”.

He added that the launch of the Blackberry Z10 on the Airtel Network is significant as customers would take advantage of its largest 3.75G network and the most robust data network in the country.

Accordingly, customers who pre-ordered for the latest BlackBerry® Z10 smartphone would purchase the device at N100, 000 per unit. 

The new BlackBerry flagship Z10 which is currently the toast of the Smartphone family is positioned as a premium handheld device with the capacity to hold the interest of High Net-worth Individuals, trendy youths and accomplished professionals across corporate suites.

Prince Michael Jackson lands his first job

Michael Jackson’s eldest son Prince has landed the plum job as a special correspondent at "Entertainment Tonight." During an interview with his new employer, Prince said he's "looking to become well-rounded as a producer, director, screenwriter, and actor.”

The 16-year-old announced his new gig on the show during a segment Monday night, and went on to interview James Franco, Zach Braff and director Sam Raimi about their upcoming film Oz the Great and Powerful.

 

Prince Michael also played the role of the interviewee with Entertainment Tonight’s Brooke Anderson, his new colleague, who asked about his own relationship with his father.

“My father raised me right,” the younger Jackson replied when Anderson commented on his maturity. He went on to talk about how he often watched films with his father with the sound off, in order to better understand the moviemaking.
Now Jacko Jr. is hardly the first celeb to get by in Hollywood on his famous lineage. But has "ET" gone too far in hiring a kid whose main claim to fame is moonwalking in his father’s shadow?

Nope, I dont think so. His Dad already paved an easy way/life for him, why not take advantage of it? Lol.

MC Hammer arrested

Rapper MC Hammer launched a string of tweets Saturday with his side of the story two days after he was arrested in northern California for allegedly obstructing an officer.

Among his tweets, Hammer said, apparently referring to the arresting officer, that he was asked whether he was on parole or probation before the man tried to pull him out of his vehicle Thursday night.

Police in Dublin, east of Oakland, said Hammer was in a vehicle with expired registration and he was not the registered owner.

"After asking Hammer who the registered owner was he became very argumentative and refused to answer the officer's questions," police spokesman Herb Walters wrote Saturday evening in an e-mail to CNN. I wasn't there but I think it's BS cos Hammer said he was profiled by the officer and I believe him.

Hammer began his tweets Saturday with "chubby elvis looking dude was tapping on my car window, I rolled down the window and he said 'Are you on parole or probation?'

 

Samklef Escapes Death In Car Accident

Nigerian First-rated music producer and the CEO of Klefsound Mr. Samuel Oguachuba popularly called Samklef is happy to be alive today after a miraculous escape from a car accident that happened around 2am on Thursday morning.

In the wee hours of today Thursday Feb 28, 2013, the music producer and a business partner were coming from a function when their car lost control and hit a barrier.

The car was damaged beyond repair with no injury.

Samklef took to his Twitter page few hours ago to break the news to his followers.

Psquare In Another Mega Building Project In Lagos

These guys are really Igbo boys, they’re always into deferent business. The Okoye brothers comprising Peter and Paul (Psquare) with big brother Jude ‘Engees’, are not resting on their oars just yet as they have started building another mega mansion in Park View Estate located in the highbrow Ikoyi area of Lagos State.

The construction of the mansion which appears to be a massive edifice if work on the foundation laying is anything to go by reportedly began last year while the pop duo was on their series of ‘Invasion’ concerts across the African continent.

A recent photo of Jude ‘Engees’ Okoye captioned ‘site seeing’ in which he Cc @peterpsquare, was posted on Jude’s Instagram page showing the brothers on site of their new project.

Meanwhile the twins will begin their 2013 African concert with a performance in Luanda, Angola on March 2.

Candlelight Procession For Goldie Holds Tomorrow

There will be a candlelight procession in memorial of Goldie tomorrow Friday 1st March 2013 at 6pm. All will converge at Parkview Estate gate in Ikoyi and then proceed to walk through Osborne road through to Awolowo way, Barracks then back to Parkview. Come with a candle stand if you can. Dress Code: Black. The MIC band will lead the procession.

Nigerian model Adaora Akubilo features in 2013 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

The stunning Nigerian American model has worked for brands such as Garnier and Ray-Ban. She's one of the stars of this year's Sports Illustration Swimsuit issue.