Enchanted by “Inception”! Photos from the Launch of Eclectic by Sasha’s Debut Collection at L’Espace | Mo Abudu, Toolz, Obi Asika, Muna, Noble Igwe, Naeto C, Toju Foyeh & Oreka Godis Lookin’ Fab

Sasha – Creative Director, Eclectic by Sasha

On Sunday 19th August 2012, Nigerian music star, Sasha launched her design label Eclectic by Sasha‘s debut collection “Inception” at premier fashion retail store, L’Espace in Victoria Island, Lagos.

For her label’s first collection debut, the Storm Records rap star arrived at L’Espace in red dress from the new collection. She accessorized her look with geek glasses, bang-on-trend feather earrings – which we have spotted international celebs including Jessica Biel and Jordin Sparks rocking, she completed her look with a red belt and yellow wedge pumps.

To show support love and support to the “Gidi Babe” star as well as shop the new collection, stars from the entertainment and fashion industries including host/presenter Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, radio sensation Toolz, Storm Records CEO Obi Asika – who came with his wife Yets and their cute daughter, rap stars Naeto C and Munachi Abii, “Moments with Mo” host Mo Abudu, designers Kunbi Oyelese of April by Kunbi and Toju Foyeh, stylists Lilian Unachukwu, Ngozi Pere Okotie and Funmi St Matthew Daniel and many more.

BN was on the scene at the event and we have all the photos. P.S - BN style watchers, couldn’t help but notice that most of the attendees donned neon coloured outfits. So many neon hues were on display! From Noviol Gold, Ice Blue, Neon Blue and Orange.

Photos
First Look at Eclectic by Sasha’s “The Inception Collection”

Shopping Action

BN Glam Cam

Ngozi Pere Okotie

Funmi St. Matthew Daniel

Mo Abudu

Ijeoma Ndekwu

Oreka Godis

Jumai Shaba

Kemistry

Ms. Jaie

Kunbi Oyelese

Lilian Unachukwu

Noble Igwe

Ebuka Obi-Uchendu

Munachi Abii

Toolz

Ifeoma Nwajagu

Omoyeni Disu

Isoken Ogiemwonyi

Olamide Adedeji

Chinny Johnson & Toju Foyeh

Naeto C & Sasha

Miss Asika

Obi & Yets Asika with their daughter

L.O.S

Ebun Feludu, Dammie Amolegbe

Temi Remi Adeoye

Photo Credit: Kola Oshalusi for Insigna

Quote of the day

Nigerian MEDIA ARE "unreliable & politicized" - President Goodluck Jonathan

Young Nigerian footballer missing in South Carolina

From the Rock Hill Herald

A 16-year-old unnamed boy from a Nigerian soccer team has been missing since Sunday in Rock Hill, S.C. The team is scheduled to play the Rock Hill Discoveries Soccer Club 96 Green today and then return to Nigeria on Thursday.

Sam Okpodu, who is executive director for the South Carolina Youth Soccer Association, told the Rock Hill Herald, "We want to believe that he will return before the team leaves. We're putting our hopes on that right now. He's a young fellow. I don't think he knows anybody here."

The coach told police that an unknown Facebook friend might be helping the teenager. He has been entered into the National Crime Information Center as a runaway. Rock Hill is the last stop in South Carolina for the Nigerians, who previously played in Charleston, Columbia and Greenville.

Nigga aint missing mehn...he has pafukad! lol.

Nicole Kidman bares her bum on the cover of V magazine

The Australian actress bared her bum for provocative V Magazine cover - September issue. Still looking hot at 45!

Ex-Miss Nigeria Helen Anyamelune has passed on

She actually died a while back but I just heard about it. Helen Anyamelune was Miss Nigeria in 1958. She was the second woman to be so crowned in the history of beauty pageants in Nigeria. She died on Saturday July 28 2012, after a protracted illness. She was 75 years old. She will be buried in October. May her soul rest in peace...Amen.

Three Young Women Rape 20-Year-Old Man In Zamfara State

Many bizarre stories come out of Nigeria these days, but the one that came out of Gusau, Zamfara State this weekend will surely rank as a world-beater.

According to newspaper reports, three women were arraigned before a Higher Shari’a Court in Gusau for allegedly raping a 20 year old man. The man, Abdulrahman Sulaiman, was a Man-O-War volunteer who went to the Women Multi-Purpose Center in Gusau to help organize a preaching session organized by the state’s Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs for women during the holy month of Ramadan.

According to the police prosecutors three women, Hannatu Ibrahim [23], Wosila Hassan [20] and Rukayya Hassan [21] conspired among themselves and serially raped Abdulrahman until he lost consciousness! How did this happen? The prosecutors said they lured him into a corner of the Women’s Centre, where they “forced” him to made love with them in turn until poor Abdulrahman fell unconscious. It was said that he was rushed to hospital, where he was resuscitated. The three women have now been remanded in prison custody until Monday next week, when witnesses will be called to the court to testify against them.

I suspect that half of Gusau town will turn up in court on that day to hear the evidence against the three “conspirators.” If the three women and the man in question actually did what they were alleged to have done 1] at a preaching session 2] during the month of Ramadan 3] when the centre was brimming with other women and children, then it will be a new low in religious morality in this part of the world.

The evidence will however be very interesting and it may force this country’s lawyers and jurists to have to rewrite the law on rape. Some years ago, I heard a senior lawyer say on television that the law on rape as it stands today does not envisage a woman raping a man, unless if he is a minor who is seduced by a much older woman. Otherwise, the lawyer said, “a woman cannot really rape a man because it requires his willing cooperation” to effect the act.

It will be interesting to see if the witnesses will say Abdulrahman shouted for help while he was being raped. Or what the three women used to force his cooperation---a gun or a knife, for instance. Anatomically speaking, while a man can successfully rape a woman who is not cooperating but who goes limp at gunpoint, the same can hardly be said of the reverse case. A man who has a gun or a knife pointed at him and goes limp cannot be successfully raped!

My only fear with this story is that many men in Gusau and around this Nigeria will wistfully wish that they were the ones that were raped. Mark you, the three alleged “conspirators” are young women hardly out of teen ages. They will find many willing takers in Gusau and elsewhere in Nigeria without resorting to any force! In fact, if someone were to call for male volunteers to be raped, in this Nigeria, the queues will be longer than the men who lined up at the Hisbah Office in Kano to marry widows and divorcees!

If na men rape a woman like that, the whole world go hear am. But this na women come rape man, so I no know wetin dem go talk.

Two Female students commit suicide after failing WAEC Exams

The recently released results by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) have claimed lives in Delta State. Two female students that failed their exams yesterday allegedly committed suicide in Asaba, the state capital.

Reports said the students committed suicide after checking their result in the internet and discovered that it was unfavourable to them.
Sources said the victims had written the exams three times without passing their Maths and English Language, which led them to allegedly resolve to commit suicide.

Some persons who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity confirmed that the students had struggled to gain admission into the University in the last few years without success.

Police sources at the “B” Division Asaba said the students were allegedly found dead in their various rooms after a search party that was conducted.