Kardashian store will be a 'lifestyle experience

New York - Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian are on the hunt for a new base in Manhattan.

The sisters - who are currently filming in the Hamptons, where they are opening a Dash store - reportedly looked at a five-storey corner property in Soho last week with plans for a huge "full-concept Kardashian lifestyle experience".

A source told the New York Post newspaper's Page Six column that the sisters want to turn the first two floors of the building into a flagship Dash store, with the other three storeys being used to house offices for the family businesses.

The whole building is available to rent for $2m a year from Jack Terzi of JTRE, who bought it for $15m in May.

The real estate mogul and his broker personally gave the group a tour of the building.

However, the property may not be as private as the sisters could hope and could attract a lot of paparazzi attention thanks to 80-foot-long wraparound windows.

One source said: "Some 300 photographers and fans were crowding the building en masse while they were checking it out.

"They were pulling out their cellphone cameras and crowding them to try and get a shot."

The Kardashians currently have a Dash store at a nearby Soho location, as well as boutiques in Los Angeles and Miami, and the pop-up store in the Hamptons.

Kris Jenner's talk show Slammed

Los Angeles - Kris Jenner's talk show has been slammed by a Fox TV executive.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star had a six-week test run of a talk show on the network last summer, but bosses knew early on that 'Kris' would never develop into a full series as they felt the showbiz matriarch was ''uninteresting''.

Frank Cicha, senior VP and president of programming for the Fox Television Stations said: "I think she was pretty uninteresting on camera.

He went on to say; "That was one where sister company 20th Television tried to capitalise on a name. ... When the camera was on she looked not just like a deer in the headlights, but like a deer that already got hit."

However, the executive admitted Kris worked hard and improved as the series went on, but the show never did well in the ratings - until the final show when son-in-law Kanye West was a guest and showed off baby pictures of his daughter North, now 12 months.

Cicha told The Hollywood Reporter: "It wasn't a disaster in the ratings."

The executive went on to explain Kris didn't fit well with the station group's schedule and would have been expensive to produce.

He concluded: "When you added it up, it wasn't a show that made sense for us.

Kim's sideboob causes a Stir

Hamptons – Only Kim Kardashian can manage to cause a stir by simply going out for lunch.

The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star had tongues wagging when she went out for lunch without a bra, wearing a billowing skirt and a tight-fitting black vest top.

Residents in the Hamptons were worried that the filming of the latest Kardashian spin-off show would draw unwanted attention to the luxury location. Seems they were right.

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Nigerian BET nominees interviewed on Diddy’s Revolt TV

Atlanta - Winner of this year’s BET Awards “Best International Act: Africa” , Davido and nominee Tiwa Savage were on rapper/business mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ network – Revolt TV on Monday.

The musician revealed this on his Instagram page where he put a photo of the interview “revoltTV Monster24k” he wrote.

Davido beat Diamond Platnumz from Tanzania, Mafikizolo from South Africa, Sarkodie from Ghana, Tiwa Savage from Nigeria and Toofan from Togo.

 

Tee-A goes on three Country Tour

Lagos -Renowned comedian Tee-A, is set for a three-city continental tour to showcase his popular comedy-Tyme Out With Tee-A.

The tour will take him to London, Johannesburg , South Africa and Accra, Ghana. Tee-A said in Lagos on Monday that he decided to take the show to other countries following popular demands and requests of many Nigerians and Africans. The comedian said the tour would commence sometime in September.

"Tyme Out With Tee-A has been a Nigerian show for the past decade and at the advent of the Internet and YouTube, people outside Nigeria began to have more access to it apart from watching on TV.The demand has been crazy and I’m glad we can now take the show to the passionate fans who have been asking for it,’’ he said.

"We are going round to deliver the live edition concerts to our fans in Africa, Europe and around the world.

The success of past editions makes this even more exciting as the concert tour for the first time is moving to London, Johannesburg and Accra.Guests should expect a unique tour comprising live personality interviews, rib-cracking comedy sketches, musical performances and special guest appearances.’’ he said.

Tee-A said the tour would have the full complement of the show’s stars, comedians MC Abbey and Madame Princess and other headline acts.

He confirmed that the show would have stop-over in London and Manchester in September, followed by Johannesburg and Accra before concluding the show in Lagos in November.

He said that the TV version of the show is set for its fourth season with celebrities like King Sunny Ade and Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde.

Others are Ramsey Nouah, Funke Akindele, Onyeka Onwenu and Juilet Ibrahim among the featured guests.

Past Live edition guests included D’Banj, Tiwa Savage, Shina Peters and Daddy Showkey.

The show also featured segments like 'Rave of the Moment’ with MC Abbey and `Celebrity Close Up’ with Madam Princess.

Nigeria schoolgirls: police say first arrest made over kidnapped students

Businessman Babuji Ya'ari is said to have 'participated actively' in the mass abduction of 200 schoolgirls in April


Nigerian police have now banned protests calling for the authorities to do more to return the missing schoolgirls Photo: Gbenga

Nigeria's military says it has broken up a Boko Haram intelligence cell and arrested its leader, alleged to have taken part in the abduction of over 200 teenage girls in April.

A defence headquarters statement said that troops have found a militants' "intelligence cell" headed by a businessman "who participated actively in the abduction of school girls in Chibok," in northeast Borno state on April 14.

Of the 276 girls abducted, 57 have been found while 219 are still missing.

The businessman identified as Babuji Ya'ari, who was also a member of a civilian youth group that worked along with the military, popularly known as Civilian JTF (Joint Task Force), allegedly used his position as a cover to work for the militants, it said.

"The arrest of the businessman who is known to deal in tricycles has also yielded some vital information and facilitated the arrest of other members of the terrorists' intelligence cell who are women," the military said.

Court to decide Fayose's legitimacy to govern

Ekiti- An Ekiti High Court will on July 18 deliver a judgment in a suit challenging the eligibility of Ayo Fayose to contest the just-concluded governorship election in the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after he defeated the incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi.

Although the incumbent governor has conceded defeat, the fate of the elected governor is still on a balance following a suit filed by Ekiti-Eleven and Citizens Party before the election challenging his eligibility to run for the office as a governor.

The court could not hear the suit before the commencement of the June 21 election.

Fayose in opposing the suit arguing that the court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the case filed by the socio-cultural organisation.

His lead counsel, Raji Ahmed, argued that only the Federal High Court could hear the case since it involved the a federal agency -INEC, and the National Secretariat of the ruling People's Democratic Party.

Ahmed said the case, in which the plaintiffs sought to stop his client from contesting the governorship election, had been overtaken by events as it had been won and lost.

Opposing the argument however, the lead counsel to the citizen’s party, Norrison Quakers, argued that the case still had merit regardless of whether the election at hand had been conducted or not.

Supporting the argument, counsel to the E-Eleven, Raufu Balogun, insisted that the court had jurisdiction to try the case, and should therefore not strike it out.

He urged the court to dismiss the defendant’s counsel submission for lacking in merit, citing Section 31 of the Electoral Act. 

- CAJ News