For some people acne is just an annoying condition while for others it is a significant problem that has a very significant impact on their lifestyle and quality of life.

Walid Atallah, a native of Beirut studied fashion design at the University of Chicago and started his fashion design career in Dubai. Noted for his deft use of crystals, Wahlid’s flamboyant creations are often generously sprayed with Swarovski crystals, precious stones and even diamonds.

The trick to softening coarse hair is lots of patience and the right products. Now, this does not mean you drench hair in oil; what you want to do is MOISTURIZE. And moisture is not oil.

Regional screening for the Face of Sleek kicked off with the first phase which held in Abuja last Thursday. About ninety hopefuls, most of them university undergraduates thronged the Sleek Studio, Blommsbury Plaza, Adetokunboh Ademola Crescent, Wuse 2, venue of the screening, to vie for a shot at the 20 slots for the Federal Capital Territory.

Lagos based fashion designer and creative head of the label, JD7, Mrs Data Okorodudu, last Sunday in Lagos, launched its 2009 ready- to-wear collection. Known for her glamorous evening dresses, this is the first time she would be coming out with a ready-to -wear line. The event tagged “Spectrum Extreme”, also marked the designer’s 5th year anniversary in the fashion industry.

By Zainab Ashadu I will like to know the best way to wear hoop earrings ? Hoop earrings are one of the most versatile things you can have in your jewelry box. They can transform an outfit and add elegance and sophistication or a hint of funk and irreverence, depending on how you wear them. […]

The Appeal Court in pronouncing its judgment upheld the ruling of the Anambra State Election Petition Tribunal which had earlier confirmed Obi, and not Ngige, as winner of the election.Ngige had lodged an appeal against the ruling by an election tribunal in August 2005 that Obi had won a free and fair vote while the result was rigged in favour of PDP.

It is party season once more, soon invitations will go out inviting you for one party or the other.. So how do you turn up and stand out. There are two ways to stand out, you can either stand out doing all the wrong things namely, the wrong out fit, being overly loud and be the jerk of the party. Or. you can be the belle: The soul of the party.

This is the story of how President Umar Yar’Adua felt agitated at the possibility of the Court of Appeal declaring Andy Uba as governor-in-waiting in Anambra but was calmed down by his attorney-general and justice minister, Michael Aondoaaka who saw the chances of such happenings were remote.

By BUNMI AINA-CRAIG I JUST finished reading The Law, The Lawyers & The Lawless’, a fascinating book by Dele Ogun, a solicitor based in the UK. In one of the chapters, he describes an encounter with the ‘masters of the universe.’ He was on tour of the stately home of George Washington, the founding president […]

‘THE Amanze Obi phenomenon is not an attempt at myth-making or at praise-singing, but a realistic effort to present an otherwise misunderstood personality, Amanze Obi.” This was how my friend, William Amanze Obi, and I used to rhapsodise about an article I was supposed to write on him more than 20 years ago.

The gradual descent into anarchy and increasing escalation of violence occurred and grew out of control probably because the leaders of those two countries, at the time it mattered most, failed to put nation above self-interest until there was no nation to lead anymore.

The governor even taught us that we should never insult Chief Anenih, that we should respect him; one, as an Edo indigene, second, as an old man. The governor got to the peak of his career as NLC president, so he does not need anybody’s help politically.

President Umaru Yar’Adua overruled, yesterday, his defence minister, Major General Godwin Abbe and dialogued with the Aaron team which was set up two months ago by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on the way out of the crisis in the region.

You took it out of my mouth. Yes, I would like to believe that we committed a strategic error. At the time when I said we should go into politics, they said no. A lot of people said no because, for me, I thought that the work of pro-democracy activism was coming to an end; so when a lot of people ask why aren’t you as noisy as you used to be, I let them know that I do not just shout for shouting sake; I let them know that the political space has also closed down