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An eye catching combination of sleek African prints with dramatic American flapper details. The attempt was to blend two extraordinary but very diverse cultures and strike a stunning balance between old world glamour and present day charm with our Great Gatsby style pieces that pulls inspiration from both cultures. The 1920s, the year of the Great Gatsby is known for unprecedented economic prosperity, the evolution of jazz music, flapper culture, and forging of a genuine mass culture. Africa is currently witnessing its own cultural renaissance in music, dance, fashion and the arts generally. Characterised by bold, vibrant prints, laces, fringes, mesh and ornate details; these looks mixes classic flapper ideas with bright contemporary pieces for a look that hints at old world but is full of life as it is today. We went for a 1920s American aesthetic mixed with new age African ideas for the entire collection. According to the Creative Director of FINIQUE STITCHES, MIS...

Senator Shehu Sani has dismissed President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim in a recent letter to the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria over the report indicting the Secretary of the Government of the Federation, Mr. Babachir Lawal, over grass-cutting scandal involving a company belonging to Babachir. Shehu who spoke after the letter from Mr. President was read by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said that Buhari is fighting corruption with double standard. President Buhari had noted in his letter to the senate that the report indicting the SGF was a minority report because it was signed only by three (3) out of nine (9) members of the Senate Ah-hoc committee led by Shehu Sani. Buhari also noted that Mr. Babachir and the company, Rholavision, was not given fair hearing on the matter.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State in a recent statement issued to newsmen by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Sam Onwuemeodo, on Sunday, urged partnership with the North to enable education export to the region in exchange for farmers. “I call for partnership with the North so that we can tap from each other. We can export education to the North through sending of teachers and they can equally export agriculture to us through the sending of farmers.” Okorocha said this when the Executive Secretary if the National Commission on Colleges of Education, Prof. Aliyu Muhammadu, paid him a courtesy visit at the Imo State Government House in Owerri the state capital. “What the nation needs more at the moment are citizens who are Nigerians in spirit or at heart and not just those who are Nigerians in name, for the nation to make progress”, regretting that Nigerians of this generation have allowed religion and ethnicity to divide them.