KENYAN DESIGNER SHINES AT BRITAIN'S TOP DESIGNER CONTEST

Kemunto Cutler, a Kenyan designer based in the UK flew the country's flag high during the finals of the Britain's Top Designer competition held at Westbury Hotel,London. The designer who owns Kemunto fashions finished fourth place. She announced her feat on facebook ,'Wow! Got to the final top 4 at Britain's Top Designer Competition last night at Westbury Hotel, London. Thanks all my friends who came to give me support & also at the London Fashion Week.'   Britain's Top Designer is a cutting edge fashion designer competition that aims to find the best designer in Britain. Organised by Fashions Finest a leading fashion and entertainment lifestyle magazine and multi award winning Fashion event company, who provide professional production & management of catwalk shows, award ceremonies and launches for a wide variety of UK and international clients.

DR. OYEDEPO INVESTS IN EDUCATION

Good news or say Good things tend to follow Winners Chapel General Overseer Dr. David Oyedepo. After winning the lawsuit against the witch over a month, the General Overseer is at it again-doing great things. The Winners Chapel General Overseer, who takes education very seriously, is building a mega secondary school facility located at Gowon Estate in the Alimosho local government area of Lagos State. The new building, which is almsot complete, is said to have over 100 classrooms. The Bishop has already established the Kingdom Heritage Model Schools in different cities in Nigeria and in Kenya for primary education, Faith Academy; a missionary full boarding secondary school, and Covenant University. Talk about Kingdom investment....

STL DENIES CAUSING FRACAS DURING NICKI MINAJ'S CONCERT

Norway based Emi record signed Kenyan rapper Stella Mwangi is in Nairobi Kenya. The rapper jetted in Kenya to film the video of her soon to be released single titled 'Bad as I wanna Be'. This comes in the wake of online reports that Stella has been a bad girl. According to Norway site Kjendis.no, Stella and her friends were reportedly involved in a brawl on Saturday night at a Nicki Minaj concert that took place in Oslo.The site quotes a source: "After half a minute or so, the girls started fighting again and that's when things got out of hand and several others became involved. Punches were thrown, hair was pulled and they said some pretty nasty things to each other."However, Stella denies the reports through her press manager at EMI music, Ida Lyxzen who told Kjendis.no: "During the concert there was some pushing and shoving involving Stella's friends. Stella was not involved and did not perceive the situation as dramatic at all. As a matter of fact, she later returned to talk to the security guards and to watch the rest of the show.

KENYA'S BOYS CHOIR IN ANOTHER COLLABO WITH NELLY FURTADO

They're little known in Kenya but command a huge following in Europe. Boys Choir have been rocking the international scene attracting the best acts to do music with them. The former Universal Records acts have done been featured in yet another single with Canadian singer Nelly Furtado. The groups communications director Dayo Yusuf declined to give details about the song saying it was confidential. 'They've done a song that would be released sometime this year. The song was recorded at Nelly Furtado's record label in Canada,'was all he said. Boy's Choir were featured in Nelly Furtado's previous album in a song titled ' Powerless'.Their Spirit of Afrika' album is still doing well in the international market and is yet to reach Africa.

CAMP MULLA, WIZKID, LIRA NOMINATED FOR BET AWARDS

Kenya's CAMP MULLA, NAIJA'S Wizkid and Ice Prince have been nominated in the 'Best International Act: Africa’ category at the 2012 BET Awards. Other nominees in the category are: Lira (South Africa), Mokobe (Mali) and Sarkodie (Ghana). Camp Mulla have been rising and rising and have put Kenyan music on the global scene.

$300,000 FOR 2012 WINNER OF BIG BROTHER AFRICA

The mega-hit reality-TV Big Brother Africa which is also M-Net’s sensational series is out to get your attention this year! This season 7 rather than bringing just two people from the same country, participants are expected to bring a partner to enter biggie’s house as a pair. So whether you enter with your best friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, mom, dad, brother, sister, boss, husband, wife, neighbour, hairdresser, whomever…you must just make sure that you enter as a pair for you to get a chance to scoop the $300,000 cash bounty up for grabs. Big Brother Africa is also welcoming two new countries Liberia and Sierra Leone to the Big Brother house for the first time ever, while this time round, Ethiopia bows out of the game and Mozambique will take on a new role that will be announced at a later stage.If you want to enter Big Brother Africa you can do so if you and your partner are citizens from one of the following participating countries: Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.Both partners must come from the same country, must be 21 years or older, must be fluent in English and must have a valid passport. Interested persons can collect an entry form from the nearest MultiChoice office in their country or go to online www.mnetafrica.com/bigbrother anytime from February 5 and the deadline entry is on 27 February.

PRINCE WILLIAM AND KATE TO RAISE FAMINE MONEY FOR KENYA

WILLS and Kate are set to make a personal plea to help the 13million victims of the famine in Kenya and Somalia.In the royal couple's first joint humanitarian mission, they will visit UNICEF's supply distribution centre in Copenhagen next week.And they will use their global fame to highlight the desperate plight of more than 320,000 children who are at risk of death after East Africa's worst drought for 60 years.The region is dear to their hearts as Kenya is where the couple, both 29, got engaged.A Clarence House source said they had been deeply moved by the tragedy and want to "do their bit". Britain has donated £128million to the cause since July but more is needed. Unicef UK chief David Bull said: "I am thrilled the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are committed to helping."

COMEDIANS ARRIVE IN NAIROBI FOR COMEDY FESTIVAL

Klint the Drunk and Tshepo Mogale jetted into the country in preparation for the Nite of a Thousand Laughs.
The comedians, joined by Kenyan comedian Eric Omondi and the producer behind the show, Opa Williams, the trio promised a night of laughs and rib crackers as they chatted with the press. The atmosphere was jovial as they answered each question with a smart and witty answer.
Speaking to the press, Opa Williams explained that the show aims to go Pan-African, with a challenge and a cause: to bring change and joy to Africa, and to unite Africa.
The event will be held at Bomas Of Kenya from 7:00pm, on Saturday, August 27 2011. Tickets are already on sale at different outlets, and online.

UGANDAN TYCOON RELEASED

UGANDA tycoon Michael Ezra Mulyowa has been freed by a Kenyan court after he paid a Ks4m (about sh116m) cash bail. Ezra, who was last week charged before Makadara Court for issuing a bad cheque of Ksh16m to a local company, SMR Ltd, re-appeared before chief magistrate Martin Muya yesterday and applied for bail.

Ezra’s lawyer Christopher Kenyariri told the court that: “Ezra is a man of integrity since he presented himself before the investigation officers. Therefore, he should be allowed a reasonable cash bail in accordance with the new constitution. It’s a bailable offence, the case can be heard when he is out,” Kenyariri argued.

Kenyariri told court that his client Ezra is an international businessman dealing in real estate and other business in Kenya. “My client has property in Nyari within Nairobi, where he presented himself before authorities for arrest. He also has properties in Karen,” he said.  Ezra’s wife, Grace Mulyoowa expressed relief upon her husband’s release. “The whole experience has been tough and memorable,” she said.

The hearing of the case was fixed for May 10, but Ezra will have to re-appear before court on March 7.
Last week, Ezra was charged and remanded after he denied charges of issuing a false cheque.
Court was told that Ezra on October 20, 2009, at Ecobank on Muindi Mbingu Street, issued a false cheque of $200,000 to SMR Limited, knowing he had insufficient funds in his bank account.
Ezra is also wanted in Uganda over charges relating to fraud and issuing false cheques.
He allegedly issued a false cheque worth $550,000 (about sh1.15b) to a software engineer.
Ezra had eluded arrest for sometime. Late last year, he sneaked out of Uganda, but was arrested in Kenya last week.