Author: Faaji

Kendall Jenner has taken the modeling world by storm and her talent shows in this latest spread she did for Bazaar Magazine. I dig her look – it’s not traditional model 100%. She still has this fresh face/youthful glow to her. Hopefully she keeps it.  Catch the Karl Lagerfield photos, after the click.

Ghana’s dancehall king, Shatta Wale kept it 100 during his Afrohits radio show interview. He chopped it up with the guys about everything from artists living fake lives and being flat broke to Joey B’s controversial comments on Naija vs Ghanaian rappers, and more. Very interesting interview. Catch it on the click.

Remember the story from last week – the one about how students at South Africa’s University of Cape Town (UCT) were protesting to have the statue of Cecil Rhodes removed? Well the students got their wishes yesterday. “We finally got the white man to sit down and listen to us,” said a student who had campaigned for it to be taken down. Details on the click.

Huge congratulations are in order! Founder of BellaNaija, Uche Pedro and her husband, Bode Pedro (CEO of VEDA Technologies) welcomed twins yesterday, April 9th. Mama Ibeji, congratulations! A note from Uche after the click.

Three hours can change everything.  At least it did for Bibi Bourelly.  She’s the 20 year old songwriter from Berlin who wrote Rihanna’s current smash, Bitch Betta Have My Money. And she did it in 3 hours.  Crazyness. That song is everywhere now!  Details about how it happened, after the click.

We’ve got the latest photos from some of your favorite celebrities and notable folks – including Ice Prince and DJ Cuppy at Roc Nation, Pres. Obama at the Bob Marley Museum in Jamaica, Jay and Bey in Hawaii, Funke ‘Jenifa’ Akindele posin’ on IG – and more, after the click.

Valued at 6 billion USD, Lagos’s proposed Mega City, Eko Atlantic City is set to begin construction of its second skyscraper, the Azuri Peninsula, which will house 120 luxury apartments. Photos on the click.

Ghana lost its bid to host the next African Cup of Nations tournament – AFCON 2017 – in Accra to Gabon, but at least they will be playing their qualifying matches in a decent group.  The Black Stars will be in Group H, playing against Mauritius, Mozambique, and Rwanda. Details on the click.

Red, Piper, Crazy Eyes, Tasty and the whole cast of the hit Netflix’s show, Orange is the New Black, are back for season 3 and from the looks of the trailer, it’s going to be an entertaining season. Some of the characters are back to old habits, but some have developed one ones. Like Crazy Eyes (played by the uber talented Uzo Aduba) who’s now writing alien porn?! Lol watch the trailer after the click.

Africa has some serious representation on Fortune’s just published World’s Greatest Leaders List 2015.  Coming in at Number 16 is Liberia’s President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.  Number 33 is Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and in at the 40th spot is Patrick Awuah, former Microsoft millionaire turned Ashesi University College Founder and Pres. More on the click.