Invented in Angola!

Nuremberg (From special envoy) - Angolan inventors, who represented the country at the recent International Fair of Ideas, Invention and New Products (IENA), received seven medals, one gold, one silver and five bronze in Nuremberg, Germany.  The Angolan representatives received eight medals from their participation in 2011.  

This exhibition, at which the eight inventors of Angola presented 17 projects and inventions, had 750 exhibitors from 54 countries. During four days, the projects presented were about inventions or linked to innovations and technologies, electric power, construction machinery, medical technology and medicine, hygiene, cosmetics, various security and alarm, traffic, transport, car accessories, farming, forest and game entertainment.

The most highly ranked Angolan inventions, as evaluated by the judges, were a camera with a USB pen drive and external hard disk, invented by Adilson da Costa (gold medal) and a signaling system for parking at a curb (silver medal), presented by inventor Hélder Silva.

All other Angolan inventions entered were: the use of industrial múcua, the new way of thinking in Mandombe, Angolan culture and art, as well as a computer mouse for those with disabled upper limbs, a multi-use calculator and one special software program, were the Angolan works awarded with bronze medals.

Angola, which is participating for the fourth time, enrolled to join countries such as Algeria, Bahrain, Bosnia Herzegovina, China, Denmark, Germany (host country), Finland, Great Britain, Russia, Hong Kong , Iran, Italy, Qatar, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Korea, Croatia, Kuwait, Malaysia, Macedonia, Oman, Austria, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Hungary, USA, andVenezuela, among others. (Njango Angola, November 2012)

Okoro’s The Contract Gets Huge Patronage In Kumasi

Yvonne Okoro's movie, The Contract has hit another cinema jackpot. Over the weekend, the movie had a successful public premiering event in Kumasi at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Technology.

According to organisers of the premiere, iSolveAfrica and Happenerz, it was the first time students came out in their numbers to see a local movie.

“It would have been even bigger if the cast had attended the ceremony,” the stated.

However, Saturday’s event made it the third successful premiering ceremony after The Contract was released for the cinemas in December last year.

The first was the huge turnout at the main premiere in Accra at National Theatre and the subsequent showings at Silverbird Cinemas.

The Kumasi event was held at the Social Science Auditorium, a 1,200 capacity auditorium.

There were three showings in all and each showing had more patronage than the organizers anticipated.

The first showing had over eighty percent patronage while the second screening had a full house. The numbers of the third screening was quite surprising and amazing, according to organisers. It had a little over 90 percent patronage.

It was late but patrons waited to see the movie. The premiere thus closed at 2:00am Sunday January 27.

 
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Dencia & Dr. Dre Get Huge Endorsement

Dr. Dre and Dencia

Sensational songstress, Dencia’s latest photo with ace American record producer, rapper and actor Dr. Dre, is the latest buzz on most celebrated African blogs and social networks.

The beautiful songstress faced a similar situation barely a month ago when her photo was tweeted by Ghanaian international soccer star, Michael Essien. 

The incident enjoyed huge public attention and many people even tried to give it different twists to suggest that she was romantically involved with Essien.
But the claims died some kind of natural death when she refused to comment on it.

The Dencia and Dr. Dre photo is the latest to attract reviews but it is not enjoying the Michael Essien kind of attention.
She reportedly had a meeting with Dre, Joe Exclusive and Daniel and co at famous Hollywood restaurant, Katana.
And the twist being given the photo is that, Dre is likely to drop a beat in Lagos soon, according to unconfirmed rumours.
Dencia is half camerounian and half Nigerian but based in the United States of America. She is not just an award-winning artiste, she is doing great with hot tracks such as ‘Super Girl’, ‘Beri Beri’, and ‘Me & U’ among others.

She has done a lot in USA’s entertainment industry.

The current question people are asking is whether she is recording with Dre.

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Lydia Forson Alters Natural Hair For TV Series

 

Lydia Forson new looks

Aside her beauty, Ghanaian actress Lydia Forson is widely respected for always maintaining her natural looks.

But news filtering in from South Africa indicates she let go her natural looks for her new role in award winning South African TV series Scandal. Hence she is now wearing a weave-on.

Indeed photos of her new looks from the set is generating a lot of talk and excitement on social networks.  

But it is indistinct how the beautiful actress is taking the sudden switch.

She tweeted about it a couple of days ago saying: “Well apparently my natural hair makes me look more South African than Ghanaian, so this is my look for the show cuz (because) the impression is Ghanaians girls wear a lot of weaves. True? Anyway what do you think?”

Lydia is one of Ghana’s few actresses known for their natural looks and she has over the year’s won herself a lot of fans because of that.

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Majid Was A Blessing To Me -Nollywood Actress Belinda Effah

Belinda Effah

Nollywood actress Belinda Effah has told NEWS-ONEthat she is blessed to have worked with popular Ghanaian actor and Africa’s reigning Best Actor Majid Michel.

The two actors recently worked on a set in Nigeria and since then Belinda has talked about Majid more than any African actress did in the past.

Currently, the relationship between the fast-rising Nollywood wonder and the father of two is not clear. It is however certain that one of them is crazy about the other and that person definitely is the beautiful actress.

A couple of months ago, she was captured in some Nollywood reports openly professing her admiration for the fine Ghanaian actor.
She reportedly said out of all the A-list actors she had worked with, Majid remains the best she admires and respects.

Majid Michel

She reiterated this in an exclusive interview with NEWS-ONE.
“Working with Majid was amazing. He is very professional. He keeps to time. He is very friendly on set. When he is on set you don’t see a star, you see an artiste ready to be used. So I learnt a lot from him. He was always handy with his advice and tips. And I was blessed to actually have worked with him.”
When asked what advice Majid gave her, this was what she had to say: “Oh no, I can’t divulge that to you. It is for me. He gave me some wonderful advice that is still working for me. One thing I can say is Majid is impressed with my work and for me it is an honour that someone with that magnitude to say ‘oh Belinda you are good.”
Belinda was recently in Ghana for the shoot of a Frank Rajah directed movie, titled, “The Refugee.” It wasn’t her first time working in Ghana.

She is described as a wonderful actress in Nollywood. She began her acting career through a TV series titled, ‘Shallow Water’ and has since rise along the ranks. She was a contestant in the 2006 edition of the Next Movie Star reality show. She won the Best Upcoming Actress at Bon AWARDS, GIAMA Awards in US and also, a group in her home State Uyo honoured her.

Currently, she has a lot of movies to her credit. Among them are Mrs. Somebody, Azonto Girls, Bigger Ladies, Udeme mmi and more. She said all her movies are her favourites and she believes she is good at playing emotional roles.  She currently aims at being the number one in Africa one day. 
She is from Cross River State and from a large family. “My family is enough to make a football team,” she said.
She attended the Nigerian Navy Secondary School in Port Harcourt and later studied Genetics and Bio-technology at the University of Calabar. But she finds herself acting now.
“I studied Genetic and Bio-Technology because as a child back then I think it was more like a norm for you to want to be a doctor.  Because then your parents will be proud of you. I know a lot of people who studied medicine but they are not practicing. That thing is tedious. It is supposed to be a six years course but it ends up ten years and you must love it. With time, I realized that I didn’t like it that much and had to find an alternative and nothing close to medicine and so I opted for Genetic and Bio-Technology. I love it but hey I don’t think we have the facility in Nigeria. So why should I be pursuing a dream that is dead,” she explained her switch to acting.

“Since I was a child, I used to write short stories and do a lot of acting here and there. I used to participate in church and school dramas and all of that.”

  

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