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Trends may come and go, but one major piece that has remained a style staple for ladies is the dress. Dressed up or down, a simple dress or fulllength stunner can change your entire attitude and also help you stand out in any social

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THE GO-TO EVENING DRESS Get a very gorgeous long metallic, silver or any other shimmery breathtaking gown. Pair with pretty earrings and a simple clutch for any evening soiree or wedding.

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9 STATEMENTPARTY DRESS Sequin dress with a short hemline is a perfect choice for a party.

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ST. MATTHEW-DANIEL

Voice of the voiceless By - Jemi Ekunkunbor

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rs. Laila St. Matthew Daniel is a leadership and peak performance coach as well as a seasoned administrator. Although she is better known for her activities in defence of hurting and traumatised women, she is an accomplished entrepreneur and furniture maker who made her mark in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s as a premier female furniture manufacturer.

Born into the Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;dwyer family of Calabar and raised in a strict Saro-based background, the woman fondly called Mrs. D by her numerous radio fans, developed a knack for fighting injustice at an early stage. Her passion to fight the cause of the oppressed stayed with her to adulthood. Today, that same passion has led to her becoming a voice for the oppressed and battered of society.

A pretty sight for sore eyes, nothing about this glamorous grand mother and mother of four depicts her as an activist.

In the wake of the slaughter of the Mubi Boys, she was out on the streets along with women of like minds protesting their killing in a march tagged, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nigerian Women Mournâ&#x20AC;?. She also led another march when the Chibok Girls were taken. But her desire is not just to advocate for the rights of women only but to build a place of rest, a shelter for traumatized women, who are victims of violence.

In 2006, she set up Acts Generation, an NGO dedicated to offering counselling and rehabilitation services to women whose rights have been violently infringed on.

In celebration of International Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, we spoke with Mrs. Laila St. Matthew-Daniel and like the activist that she is, she likes to call a spade a spade.

How did you get interested in activism and advocating for women?

Well, being a social activist for women came out of the deep burden for issues that affect women, especially in a society like ours where some women are short changed in a lot of things. Added to that, is the call of the UN for gender parity. When I was growing up, I found out that I had a lot of compassion, especially when women were badly treated.

In my life time, I have been through what I call the good, the bad and the ugly; times of pain and hurt.

In our society, if anything happens, it is always the ZRPDQ¡V IDXOW 0RVW RI WKH WLPH ZKHQ VRPHWKLQJ KDSSHQV WKH\ ZLOO WHOO \RX œJR DQG EHJ \RXU KXVEDQG¡ Even when rape happens, you realise that the onus lies on the woman to prove that she was actually not the cause of the rape. So, it started off fully about 8 or 9 years ago; when I decided to start holding small seminars for women on issues affecting them. From there, it just evolved.

I organise awareness drive. We go on the streets to let women know that there is help. We offer counselling and therapy.

When you started, it was just a passion for advocacy but what is it like when you began to see really bad cases of violence and what bad case can you share with us?

It is when, for whatever reason â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which is not MXVWLĂ&#x20AC;DEOH D PDQ ORVHV FRQWURO DQG DFWXDOO\ EHDWV D woman to the point where she passes out; to the point where she breaks an arm; to the point where she has her face all bruised; then, the worst case scenario is when he takes a knife to her. It is very harrowing to see how another human being could deface, demean

a woman who is the mother of his children, whom he says he loves.

At the end of the day, he wants his conjugal rights. The <RUXED DGDJH VD\V LI \RX GRQ¡W WUHDW PH ZHOO KRZ FDQ I pleasure you? It can be harrowing but with training, I have learnt to dissociate Laila from the issues.

Initially, what was it like for you?

Initially, it was very traumatic for me. In fact, I used WR IHHO OLNH JRLQJ WR Ă&#x20AC;JKW WR JLYH KLP D WDVWH RI KLV medicine. But then, with more studies, you have to stop being reactionary if you want to be of help. Rather, you start asking, why is this happening, what are the causative factors? What can be done to assist the couple?

The essence is not to break the home; the essence is WR Ă&#x20AC;QG RXW ZKDW LV UHVSRQVLEOH DQG KRZ WR Ă&#x20AC;QG VROXWLRQV because, most times, the man who is violent has issues that can be traced backwards. The woman who stays in a violent relationship has issues too.

But a lot of women would rather hang in there than walk away for fear of being scorned by family?

You are right there but it is not only in Nigeria. Even societies where they have managed to overcome cultural biases, the woman endures violence because of her children. Sometimes, religion will say stay there and pray. Culturally, they say stay there because once you are married, you are married. Another thing is that those who mete out this violence are controllers.

They subject another human being to beating because it feeds their ego as a man. The same ego that was subjected and bashed when they were young. And one

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The ones that are controllers want to make sure that you do not have anything. They keep money away from you; they keep friends away from you. They talk GRZQ RQ \RXU IDPLO\ DQG E\ WKH WLPH WKH\ Ă&#x20AC;QLVK \RX will be standing all alone. So, when the woman gets to the point where she is abused or violated, she has nowhere to turn to and she is without any money.

So, lack of empowerment keeps them there. But all that is changing. My role is to make women aware of the things they can do.

Besides awareness, is there any form of intervention - like providing shelter?

There are many ways we intervene. We provide counselling and therapy and try to realign abused ZRPHQ SV\FKRORJLFDOO\ , DP DIĂ&#x20AC;OLDWHG WR RWKHU SHRSOH The person who handles rape (issues) like Itoro Anaba of the Mirabel Centre; she has all the equipment.

Then for shelter, because of the volatile nature of the incidence of abuse, I work very closely and in synergy with the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA) because they have the instruments. If, for instance, you meet a very violent person and you want to intervene, you just call them, March 22, 2015 /

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As a foundation, we do more training now to let people know how to identify a potential abuser, how to keep away from that potential abuser.

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the police will come in. They have a beautiful shelter just on the outskirts of Lagos. We also have one or two people who have shelters. So right now, my intervention is advocacy and to see how we can work with law makers to bring forth bills that will protect women.

One of the things that I intend to do this year, is to have a shelter that will be a holistic centre; it will have trauma counselling, empowerment training; so that they can empower themselves spiritually, emotionally and physically. :KDW LV WKH VLWXDWLRQ OLNH ZLWK YLROHQFH" ,V LW RQ WKH rise?

It is not on the rise, thank God. The media in the last couple of years has played a very good role in creating awareness. As a foundation, we do more training now to let people know how to identify a potential abuser, how to keep away from that potential abuser and what you should do if you are living with one. Although we GRQ¡W DGYRFDWH EUHDN XS LI LW EHFRPHV GDQJHURXV \RX have to leave.

Christian faith based organisations must be involved in telling the truth. Where, in the Bible, did God say that a man should begin to beat up a woman? It says love your wife as Christ loved the church; woman submit to \RXU KXVEDQG :KHQ D ZRPDQ LV FDUHG IRU \RX GRQ¡W need to ask for submission and humility because, at that point, there is nothing she cannot do for a man.

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In Nigeria, we have reasons to celebrate because we are not where we were 20 or 30 years ago. Women have become more aware of their rights; that is where civil society groups like ours have played a big role in letting women know that they have rights that protect them from a lot of things.

Women are now playing big roles in government.

But politically, because of the kind of money used in campaigns, it inhibits women a little bit and that is why most of them end up as deputies. Also, until women EHJLQ WR Ă&#x20AC;JKW IRU WKHPVHOYHV VXSSRUW WKHPVHOYHV ZH are going to still have these issues.

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:KDW ZDV LW OLNH IRU \RX DQG ZKDW FDQ ZH GR" When I was having some relational issues and went to table it in front of the elders, they will not listen. They will tell you to go and beg the person. Now, because the issues are not addressed, it keeps repeating itself.

I will give you an instance â&#x20AC;&#x201C; taking it to the extreme; ZKHUH ZLGRZKRRG SUDFWLFHV VWLOO H[LVW \RX Ă&#x20AC;QG RXW that it is the women themselves that are on top of the widowhood rites.

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Change will only come through education. It will take time because culture has a way of dragging because it suits community. But there are certain cultural biases that need not be corrected; those are values, beliefs DQG PRUDOV :KHQ \RX ZDWFK 79 \RX Ă&#x20AC;QG KDOI QDNHG girls! There is a saying that when you get the milk free, there is no need paying for the cow. When you are showing it free for all and then you wonder why men GRQ¡W UHVSHFW \RX %XW VWDWHV OLNH /DJRV KDYH SXW WKLQJV in place for widows. /HW¡V WDNH WKH &KLERN *LUOV \RX ZHUH YHU\ LQYROYHG :KDW LV WKH VLWXDWLRQ OLNH" You see, the situation is very unfortunate. After we did WKH IDQWDVWLF PDUFK FDOOHG Âś1LJHULDQ :RPHQ 0RXUQ¡ ZH saw some reactions. The military swung into action but WKH IXOO PLJKW GLGQ¡W JR DQG P\ IHDU ZDV WKDW LI QRWKLQJ was done, we would be very sorry. Unfortunately, when things happen here, they view it along political, religious or ethnic lines.

2E\ (]HNZHVLOL WRRN RYHU WKH Ă&#x20AC;JKW DGRSWHG #Bringbackourgirls. Nobody took it seriously and it was very painful. Whether it was political, ethnic, the fact remains that we should have gone after them at that time so that if it was political, tribal or religious, they would have been disgraced. Instead, all they did was to sit down in Abuja and begin to blame APC or PDP. The fact remains that over 200 girls were abducted from a school and whether it is APC, PDP, why did we not rise up as a united force then and go after them?

We are not holding our leaders accountable enough.

Women and men would have risen up and demanded that the government should tell us why they treated the

Chibok situation the way they did.

With elections here, whoever emerges must take the issue of security very seriously because it was breakdown of security that led to terrorists abducting WKHVH JLUOV LQ WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW SODFH :H FDQQRW DIIRUG DQ\ PRUH of our citizens to be abducted.

Life in advocacy, do you sometimes fear?

Well, initially I used to feel a little bit burnt out; my energy used to be sapped on its own but I have learnt to detach myself from the issues.

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Hello my dear readers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Morning!â&#x20AC;? It is said every day, yet do you feel it? Do you feel good every morning?

Does each morning bring with it another ray of hope, a UHDVRQ WR ÂżJKW IRU \RXU GUHDPV DQG NHHS \RXU VSLULW DOLYH" (Even though things are a bit tough and austerity measures have been put in place) Well it should and here are a few DEVROXWH ÂľPXVWVÂś WR WHOO \RXUVHOI HYHU\ GD\ ÂżUVW WKLQJ LQ WKH morning, for a better, happier, more successful day, every day.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Spanish Proverb

1. TODAY IS A NEW DAY: So yesterday was a bad day DQG PD\EH VR ZDV WKH SUHYLRXV ZHHN RU \HVWHUGD\ ZDV JRRG DQG VR ZDV WKH SUHYLRXV ZHHN KRZHYHU WRGD\ LV D QHZ GD\ ,WÂśV \HW DQRWKHU GD\ WR PDNH SURJUHVV DQG FKDQJH ZKDWHYHU I want to change and be whoever I want to be. The bad wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t last; the good wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t either, so I must do my best today.

power and conviction which can happen anytime, any day, anywhere. My life is in my hands.

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15. I deserve the best: Where I come from or who I am, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t automatically dictate what I â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;deserveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. I deserve the best of everything I get and I will not be guilted into WKLQNLQJ RWKHUZLVH 1R RQH H[FHSW PH FDQ FRQWURO P\ KDSSLQHVV Nothing controls my happiness. Some things or people might facilitate it but they can not control it. My happiness is in my hands only and I can induce it as and when I please.

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7KDW LV LW IRU WRGD\ P\ UHDGHUV +RSH \RX HQMR\HG WKLV SLHFH 5HPHPEHU \RX UHDG LW KHUH ÂżUVW For comments and questions please email terimendes@gmail. com, @terimendes. I would love to hear from you, till next week. - itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ta ta for now! XOXO

Dear Ada, Thank you for your mail. The above can be purchased at Yinka Bodyline on Awolowo road Ikoyi. It usually lasts about 8 - 12 months based on the size of it, giving you enough time to plan for replenishment. Let me know how you get on.

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Gin A drink speaks volumes about your sense of style and occasion. A classic Martini is simplicity itself â&#x20AC;&#x201C; yet conjures up images of James Bond, of languid cocktails and of elegant people dressed for an evening of opulence. And at the centre of it all â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is usually a bottle of gin. $V RQH RI WKH PRVWO\ SRSXODU DQG ZLGHO\ GLVWULEXWHG VSLULWV JLQ LV ERWK UHĂ&#x20AC;QHG DQG GHĂ&#x20AC;QHG DQG FDUULHV DV PXFK KLVWRU\ DV LW GRHV Ă DYRXU *LQ LV D ZKLWH VSLULW Ă DYRUHG ZLWK MXQLSHU EHUULHV D KLJKO\ DURPDWLF EOXH JUHHQ EHUU\ RI WKH MXQLSHU D ORZ VOXQJ HYHUJUHHQ EXVK JHQXV -XQLSHUXV WKDW LV FRPPHUFLDOO\ JURZQ LQ QRUWKHUQ ,WDO\ &URDWLD WKH 8QLWHG 6WDWHV DQG &DQDGD *LQ LV DOVR Ă DYRXUHG ZLWK so-called botanicals and a varied assortment of herbs and spices including anise, angelica root, cinnamon, orange peel, coriander, and cassia bark.

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slightly fruity, and very aromatic.

London Dry Gin is the dominant English style of Gin. As a style it lends itself particularly well to mixing.

Old Tom Gin is the last remaining example of the original lightly sweetened gins that were so popular in 18th-century England.

Plymouth Gin is relatively full-bodied (when compared to London Dry Gin). It is clear,

Genever or Hollands is the Dutch style of Gin.

HERE ARE 5 THINGS YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT GIN: 1. There are more classic cocktails made with Gin than with any other spirit. Where do we start? Negroni, Ramos Gin Fizz, Gin Rickey, Red Snapper, Tom Collins, White Lady, Hanky Panky, Clover Club, Alexander, French 75, Gimlet, Vesper, Singapore Sling, Silver Bronx, 3HJX &OXE %HH¡V .QHHV 6RXWKVLGH DQG OHW¡V not forget The Martinez. And that is just scratching the surface!

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CHUDE JIDEONWO GOVERNOR AMAECHI ADEBOLA WILLIAMS AND KOLA OYENEYIN

GOVERNOR ROTIMI AMAECHI CELEBRATES ADEBOLA WILLIAMS It was double celebration last week for Media entrepreneur and CoFounder Red Media Africa, Adebola Williams.

Adebola who hosted few friends and family in his home to celebrate his 29th birthday then walked into a surprise party by one of his mentors Governor Rotimi Amaechi few days after. The Governor commends him as an extremely hardworking young man, a leader in his generation who should be celebrated.

Adebola is also the Chief Executive of StatCraftInc one of the group subsidiaries which was appointed as the communication company for the Buhari/Osinbajo campaign and been particularly responsible for the transformation of the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammed Buhari.

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LALA AKINDOJU

ADEBOLA WILLIAMS AND LANRE DASILVA

BABA EPEGA & HELEN ISIBOR ATUNBI ADESANMI, ADEBOLA WILLIAMS, AND OMOTOLA JALADE

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/ March 29, 2015

PEOPL E “ O N E PA RT Y AT A T I M E ! ”

‘LATE NIGHT WITH NIKE OSHINOWO’ SEASON ONE CURTAIN CALL By - Oscar Ochiogu The curtains fell on Season One of ‘Late Night with Nike Oshinowo’ at a swanky party held at the Moorhouse Sofitel recently.

The lit poolside party glistened as the star of the night, Nike Oshinowo, glowed. With guests including members of the LNWNO production crew, sponsors, and partners and The Lagos State Government represented by the Honourable Commissioner for Tourism & Intergovernmental Relations, Mr. Disun Holloway.

Ms Oshinowo treated the audience to a jocular speech, as champagne flowed. In her typical fashion, Nike was flawless, unruffled and beautiful to the eye. It was pure delight to watch her do the ‘Shoki’ and take ‘Selfies’ with her guests.

The night was a well deserved celebration of a successful first season and an exclusive peek preview of Season Two.

AMINAH SAGOE (FOUNDER CEO EMMAUS SKINCARE)

THE GLITZY LAUNCH OF EMMAUS LUXURY SKINCARE LINE

ONAH NWACHUKWU

By - Latasha Ngwube

EKU EDEWOR

DIDI OCHEJA

MR TREVOR HENRYGLOBAL SALES & DISTRIBUTOR ARIK AIR

Good news for lovers of beauty in Nigeria as Emmaus luxury Skincare line was recently launched by Beauty Entrepreneur Aminah Sagoe. Business Moguls, Editors and Fashion/Beauty insiders,Socialites and Family, were invited to it’s exclusive VIP launch party, hosted by Fauzi Fahm at one of Lagos’ new hot spots, Maison Fahrenheit, located in the heart of Victoria Island.

Following Mrs Sagoe’s welcome address, guests were ushered to the “Product Experience Suite” where they received firsthand experience of the Emmaus skincare line and the brand’s skin experts invited attendees to smell, feel and guess key ingredients that went into the finished product of the luxury skincare line. Guests were treated to cocktails, premium canapés, champagne, and Emmaus gift bags containing samples of the “Smiling Beads” body wash and “Softness Bliss” body lotion.

The night drew to a close with a serenading performance from beautiful soul singer Tonye Garrick.

LANRE DA SILVA AJAYI

NAJITE & MICHELLE DEDE

ENE LAWANI, TANA ADELANA & SOLARA KNIGHT BOLA BALOGUN

FADE OGUNRO

TITI & BOYE FOWORA

ADEYEMI OKANLAWON & MAI ATAFO

TITI, FEMI & ADEGBOYE FOWORA

NGOZI PRINCEWILL UTCHAY KOJO & BOLA SAGOE

FAUZI FAHM

LISA FOLAWIYO

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