Thursday 30 May 2013

Film: Behind the Scenes at Koby Maxwell’s ‘One Night in Vegas’





Some extracts about Producer Koby Maxwell….

“Maxwell was determined not to wait for Hollywood to find him, tired of Hollywood trying to tell the African story, starring actors who are not African, such as Meryl Streep in “Out of Africa” and Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond.”

“I want to use the technology of Hollywood to tell the African story,” he says. “My goal is to get more Americans and people in Hollywood to watch African movies. ... I’m ambitious of doing things other people hesitate to do or are afraid to do. I always say my intention is between myself and God. ... African people, we don’t often get a chance to show talent. ... It’s hard for us to expose how much we can do.”

Maxwell was born in Ghana, in a city called Saltpond. He first came to the United States in 1997, as a bass player for an artist called Kojo Antwi. “We toured New York City, played in the D.C. area at Warner Theatre, then returned to Ghana.”

Maxwell dreamed of returning to the States. “I was inspired to play with big names. I wanted to come to America and go to music school, but unfortunately it was a whole different world. ... My dream was to go to Berklee” College of Music in Boston. “That was a dream! ... But then you have to have money. You have to get a loan.”







Some extracts about actress Yvonne Nelson…..
Up the spiral staircase, the beautiful Ghanaian actress is lying on her bed, tweeting and posting to her fans on Instagram.
“Most of my fans are young girls and men,” says Yvonne Nelson, 27. “The young girls come to you and say, ‘Oh, my God, I love you. You were so wicked. I like how you play the role.’ You pretend you know which movie. There are too many.”

But she is always gracious. “You realize they love what you do,” Nelson says. “There is nothing like that. It is priceless. ... I’m a simple chick. I don’t let it get to me. I do everyday stuff. We buy roasted plantain. I go to the mall without makeup. I wear my slippers. Some will approach to take a picture. Some will stay back and point. They are your fans.”

Nelson, who has 100,000 Twitter fans, reminds herself: “My mom always says, ‘Yvonne, remember to be nice.’ ”

Nelson was born in Accra in 1985. “My mom was a single parent. I grew up like any other kid in Ghana. I went to very, very good schools in Ghana” and got a degree in resource management.

When Nelson was 19, her best friend encouraged her to enter a beauty pageant. “ ‘Yvonne,’ she said, ‘you should do Miss Ghana 2005.’ She said, ‘You are wasting your height.’ ”

“I was chubby,” says Nelson, who is 5-foot-10. “She held my hands and convinced me.”

She started dieting and won the regional competition. “I made it to the final 20, the final 10, the final five.” She won for best talent. She won most photogenic. She made it to the finals, but something went askew.

She was asked a question, an easy question. All she had to do was say something, anything that would make sense.

“I fumbled the last question,” she recalls. She stretches out on the bed above the set.

“When I watch the video, I cry. I was the winner. The crown was mine. But everything happens for a reason.”







Some extracts about actor Majid Michel…..
Nelson is finally ready for a call to go back on set. All is well now; she understands this director. He is taking his time.
In the space of three weeks, the film crew moves from mansion to club to hospital back to mansion. The movie wraps on time. The actors and actresses fly back to Ghana and Nigeria, back to Hollywood. Maxwell has already begun working on his next project.
He sits outside a Silver Spring restaurant eating grilled shrimp. His phone rings. It is Majid Michel, the biggest actor in Africa. (Note to readers: Do not call him an “African actor.” “I am an actor,” he says.)

Maxwell asks Michel to play in his next film, “Candy.”

“This is the film that will bring him to Hollywood,” Maxwell says.

Michel arrives to meet Maxwell for lunch. He is wearing an open shirt. One of his toenails is painted pink.

Fans spot him. A Metro bus rolls to a stop and girls pour out and race down the street in yellow platform shoes, swooning.

“Majid! Maaaajiiiiddd!”
“Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I love your movies. You are the best actor!”

“I am so happy,” says Kadijatu Sesay, 22, a student at Montgomery College. “The way you talk. The way you act. You are good, really good. I’ve seen everything he has acted in.”




Paulina Opoku-Gyimah says: What a fantastic insight into the inner workings of Ghollywood and Nollywood films. This behind-the-scenes look at a contemporary African movie set, including some juicy info on some of Ghana’s yummiest actors including: Majid Michel, Yvonne Nelson and John Dumelo –and Producer Koby Maxwell, an “award-winning Ghanaian musician turned moviemaker” –who has blown me away.

Much respect to Koby Maxwell for putting Ghollywood and Nollywood films on the map, for taking said films mainstream. Do read the whole of author DeNeen L. Brown’s behind the scenes look at producer Koby Maxwell and Nigerian film director, John Uche’s film ‘One Night in Vegas’ –film set via: http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-22/lifestyle/39493340_1_actors-movie-star-production


Wednesday 29 May 2013

Ghana's luxury building boom: A pool with a view


 
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Leaders from across Africa are gathering ahead of the African Union summit in Ethiopia.
The organisation is celebrating its 50th anniversary and the BBC is looking at the changes the continent has experienced in that time.

In Ghana - one of Africa's fastest growing economies - there is a building boom.
George Alagiah took a tour of one of the luxury homes on offer in the capital, Accra.

Credit: BBC

 
Do visit:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22607173 to watch George Alagiah’s tour of the uber luxe Villagio apartment complex in Airport Residential Area in Accra, Ghana. .

http://www.villaggiovista.com/
 

Fashion: Trine Lindegaard champions the Kente cloth……



Title: Danish designer finds inspiration in Ashanti Empire -

 
Trine Lindegaard worked with a family of traditional Ghanaian weavers to develop a vibrant new line in menswear, which will be on show



Menswear by Trine Lindegaard
Some of the latest menswear by Trine Lindegaard.
In their pursuit of an African voice, designers are often left stuttering when it dawns on them that simply being drawn to the continent, without substance, isn't quite enough. The mass clamour about how "so-and-so was inspired by Africa", together with a confusion between east and west African cloths and the question of whether it is a country or a continent, only adds to the general malaise.
Animal print is another story. I use animal print all the time, as does Michael Kors; an instance of appropriation. There is no problem with appropriation, it's another word for inspiration; do we need the leopard's permission to use its spots?

The dialogue then becomes something along the lines of, how we appropriate a culture with due regard. Everyone knows what tartan is, but do they know its history? Is it essential they do? At the very least we all know that tartan is Scottish. We're not just going on about "how inspired we were by Europe this season".

Asante paramount chiefs in kente                       
Ashanti paramount chief Nana Akyanfuo Akowuah Dateh II with regional chief, Kwaku Addai on right. Photograph: Eliot Elisofon, 1970/Courtesy of the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian 
    
William Burroughs created new work with the "cut-up" technique, creating new meaning out of found words – much the way Duchamp did with urinals. How does this practice apply to designers drawing on inspiration from Africa today? For writers, the rule of thumb is that if a sentence or two is taken from a novel no harm is done. But what if a culture or two is taken from a country? And cut up. In the current fashionable case the effect is not new meaning, but dilution. Akan becomes west African, or just African. This is equivalent to tartan becoming just a dish towel. In the case of the patterned cloths sacred to the Akan people, the medieval founders of a vast gold trading empire spanning modern day Ghana and Ivory Coast, simply cutting up their fabrics is not due regard. Perhaps knowing that contemporary Akanmen include Kofi Annan, Kwame Nkrumah and Saville Row tailor Ozwald Boateng would adjust the impulse?

The majority of African fabrics, like Akan cloths, are an expression of nationality or ritual, or associated with essences like mother earth or maturation, with certain colours reserved exclusively for special occasions, procession or one's status within their respective culture.

Known for her ongoing romance with textile developments both fragile and tenacious, think hand-dipped silks or hi-tech sporting materials, Trine Linedegaard, a Danish designer living in London, is peeling back the layers with her third collection for her self-titled line, which just so happens to be rooted in west African fabrics.

Actually, they don't just happen to be rooted there. Which is the beautiful point.
Kente blue                       
One of Trine Lindegaard's designs.
 
Inspired by the wonderful geometrics of the Kita, an Akan fabric, Lindegaard met the Kwevi family – Ghanaian weavers who've been making this fabric 1968. Lindegaard and her team worked closely with the family to develop a vibrant and refreshing addition to the long line of Akan fabrics used in her SS13 and AW13 collections, later adding athletic cuts and active embellishments which make for a modern, wearable collection.

The Akan men, who traded with Timbuktu during the height of west African glory in the middle ages, wearing headpieces and wraparound dresses made of the fabric, rose to power during a 13th century gold boom, ultimately leading to the well known Akan empire of Ashanti (1701-1957). Today the Ashanti monarchy continues as a constitutionally protected traditional state within contemporary Ghana, their current king, the 16th Ashanti king, Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu II, who was crowned in 1999, still reserves wearing his Akan Kente cloth for special occasions and ceremonial procession. Perhaps it's time he wore it with shorts and sneakers and a tangerine pill box hat, like Lindegaard wants us to.

Trine Lindegaard's Spring/Summer 14 collection will be on show at the London Collections 16 - 18 June 16, MEN showrooms

Source/Credit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2013/may/20/trine-lindegaard-fashion-gallery

 

For more info about Trine Lindegaard visit: http://www.trinelindegaard.com/ https://www.facebook.com/TrineLindegaard1

For more info about the London Collection visit: http://www.londoncollections.co.uk
http://www.londoncollections.co.uk/men/designers_profile.aspx?DesignerID=2236


Sunday 26 May 2013

Architecture /Design/Lifestyle: Accra’s Future Hotspots…..




Elephant Park, Accra, Ghana
 


GLAHCO, OSU R.E., Accra, Ghana

 



Garden City Mall, Kumasi, Ghana


 

Baroness Furnishing Gallery, Spintex Road, Accra, Ghana

 

 
Chancery, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Independence Ave., Accra, Ghana

 

 

Dizengoff DIY Centre, North Industrial Area, Accra, Ghana

 

Ghana Union Assurance Head Office, Ring Road East, Accra, Ghana
 

 
 
Kingsway Building, Kwame Nkrumah Ave, Accra, Ghana


 

MTN Ghana Corporate Head Offices, Independence Ave., Accra, Ghana

 

 
MTN Flagship, OSU, Accra, Ghana


 

National Hockey Stadium, Accra, Ghana
 

 
ProCredit Head Offices, Tesano, Accra, Ghana
 

 
Residence, East Legon, Accra, Ghana
 
 
 
“MULTICAD is an architecture, planning and integrated consulting firm with the capacity and expertise to undertake a complete range of multi-disciplinary consulting services encompassing feasibility, planning, design cost control, supervision and maintenance. Complementing the professional links of the practice by working relationships with independent consultants, MULTICAD provides any requisite specialist skills. As is implicit in its name, MULTICAD is a multi-faceted Computer Aided Design practice employing powerful CAD skills in all facets of consulting it deals with. MULTICAD has extensive Consulting experience in the West Africa sub-region with the staff and capacity to design, implement and administer projects to in anywhere within this area. ”

For more info visit: http://www.multicadonline.com/

Interiors: For high-end Office Furniture head to Afrodan Limited




From what I’m hearing and reading –Afro Dan offers a lot more then high-end office furniture. The go-to high-end office furniture provider for big brands in Ghana including: Ghana Commercial Bank, Regimanuel Gray Limited, NDK Financial Services, Ghana Civil Aviation Authority, Nestle Ghana Limited and Barclays Bank Ghana Limited et al, -Afro Dan Ltd is also feted for its “professional space planning and layout consultancy services “–something that’s crucial when you want to get your office environment –just right.

Afrodan also” offers free transportation services within Accra and Tema” and “installs your products for you at your location at your request.” –Fabulous –me thinks. For more info about Afrodan furniture and services head to: http://www.afrodanlimited.com/

Afrodan
Shop No. 109/36
Swanzy Shopping Arcade
Kwame Nkrumah Ave.
Adabraka, Accra, GH

Uber Luxe Objects of Desire: Antique Akan Gold Jewellery




Akan Gold Bead Necklace - $24,000.00



Origin: Ghana
Circa: 18 th Century AD to 19 th Century ADCollection: Jewelry
Style: Akan
Medium: Gold
In many cultures throughout the world, gold has been associated with status, power, prestige and wealth. As early as the 15th century, European merchants wrote about the richness of African gold objects used for adornment and intended for public display. Gold deposits were discovered in all regions of Africa, and became the most important commodity during pre- colonial times. The region of the Akan, spreading from the forest zone and costal areas of Ghana to the southern shores of the Ivory Coast, is the richest auriferous zone in West Africa. Several individual tribes make up the Akan people, the Asante and Baule being among the most famous, all united by their common ancestry and language. The royal courts of the Akan people were reportedly the most splendid in Africa. Oral tradition and iconography in Akan works of art are very closely connected. Verbal and visual symbolism tells stories or proverbs. Imagery of royal power on court ornaments carry out messages that helps keep the balance and continuity within the society. - (FJ.7265)





Akan Gold and Venetian Glass Trade Bead Necklace -$9,600.00


Origin: Ghana and Venice
Circa: 18 th Century AD to 19 th Century ADCollection: African
Style: African Beaded Necklaces
Medium: Gold and Glass
This necklace is composed of antique Venetian glass trading beads combined with Akan gold beads.





Coral and Akan Gold Bead Necklace -$8,500.00


Origin: Ghana
Circa: 18 th Century AD to 19 th Century ADCollection: African
Style: African Beaded Necklaces
Medium: Gold and Coral
 This necklace is composed of coral and Akan gold beads. In many cultures throughout the world, gold has been associated with status, power, prestige and wealth. As early as the 15th century, European merchants wrote about the richness of African gold objects used for adornment and intended for public display. Gold deposits were discovered in all regions of Africa, and became the most important commodity during pre- colonial times. The region of the Akan, spreading from the forest zone and costal areas of Ghana to the southern shores of the Ivory Coast, is the richest auriferous zone in West Africa. Several individual tribes make up the Akan people, the Asante and Baule being among the most famous, all united by their common ancestry and language. The royal courts of the Akan people were reportedly the most splendid in Africa. Oral tradition and iconography in Akan works of art are very closely connected. Verbal and visual symbolism tells stories or proverbs. Imagery of royal power on court ornaments carry out messages that helps keep the balance and continuity within the society. - (FJ.7294)




Akan Gold and Venetian Glass Trade Bead Necklace II - $9,000.00



Origin: Ghana and Venice
Circa: 18 th Century AD to 19 th Century ADCollection: Jewelry
Style: African Beaded Necklaces
Medium: Gold and Glass
This necklace is composed of antique Venetian glass trading beads combined with Akan gold beads.
In many cultures throughout the world, gold has been associated with status, power, prestige and wealth. As early as the 15th century, European merchants wrote about the richness of African gold objects used for adornment and intended for public display. Gold deposits were discovered in all regions of Africa, and became the most important commodity during pre- colonial times. The region of the Akan, spreading from the forest zone and costal areas of Ghana to the southern shores of the Ivory Coast, is the richest auriferous zone in West Africa. Several individual tribes make up the Akan people, the Asante and Baule being among the most famous, all united by their common ancestry and language. The royal courts of the Akan people were reportedly the most splendid in Africa. Oral tradition and iconography in Akan works of art are very closely connected. Verbal and visual symbolism tells stories or proverbs. Imagery of royal power on court ornaments carry out messages that helps keep the balance and continuity within the society.

During the late Middle Ages and throughout the Renaissance, Venetian artisans rediscovered the ancient secrets of glass making. On the island of Murano, they created superb vessels and jewelry which were valued throughout the known world. It was also during this period that Venice became the most powerful trading nation in Europe, a city whose ships visited every port both east and west. Venetian traders used glass beads for barter, and these jewels became especially prized in Africa, where they were traded for gold, ivory, rare woods and spices. Venetian beads quickly became a medium of exchange throughout Africa, and in some tribes were used as a bridal dowry. - (FJ.7263)


 Akan Gold Nugget and Venetian Glass Trade Bead Necklace -$6,000.00
 
 
Origin: Ghana and Venice
Circa: 18 th Century AD to 19 th Century ADCollection: Jewelry
Style: Akan Gold Necklaces
Medium: Gold and Glass

This necklace combines genuine Venetian glass trade beads found in Africa with gold nugget beads from the Akan tribe.

 
Paulina Opoku-Gyimah says: I’m always astonished by the amount of real gems of Akan/ Ghanaian origin that resided in some of the most beautiful houses and jewellery boxes –around the world!!! Who/whom is selling ‘our family china’ I’ll never know –but they never seem to stay in Ghana –do they!!! Certainly not the precious coveted pieces -like the above scummy ancient Akan gold jewellery.   
Anyway, the man who wants to win my hearts needs to add ALL the above beautiful ancient Ghanaian gold pieces with my burgeoning or is that dwindling bride price!!!! I’m soooo bored of the same ole, same ole –and only the above pieces will do for me –right now. Where are all those Jubilee Oil bachelors when you need them (laughter)…  
For more information visit: http://www.barakatgallerybeverlyhills.com/

 

Event Planning & Weddings: W.NMi Events……






Nothing says it better than a beautiful W.NMi Bride........from weddings to private parties and corporate Events; W.NMi is really your one stop shop for event planning and coordination. From bespoke event planning and design to personalised stationary and favours W.NMi is your one-stop shop. Fancy a chat about your event contact us today 0246546622

 


Private Party at African Regent Accra Ghana

 


W.NMi Event also specialises in the design and printing of wedding stationery which is hand finished. We love to make our stationery fun with a WOW factor twist. If you want something ultra-modern and out of the box W.NMi is definitely your one stop shop. For more information please inbox or call 0246546622.

 



Wedding invitations just for you...........We aim to always personalise your wedding stationary for you to match your theme and set the mood for your guests

 




Paulina Opoku-Gyimah says: You know what I’m like with regards to weddings in Ghana?? If I see pictures of meringue brides with weird fingerless gloves, plastic flowers, 80’s balloon arches and polyester table cloths –I’m off but thankfully; W.NMi Events –an events planning, weddings and stationary service –offers quality. As you can see from the above photos –give them a fabulous venue and they will decorate it a treat. They work with the who’s-who of Ghanaian society and brands like Bella Roma and Cisco. For more info visit: https://www.facebook.com/pages/WNMi-Events/137272226288221

Fashion: For the best in Elegant Clutches head to Benajee Kollections….













“Borne out of rich and pure African descent with a touch of luxury, class and colour sense with 'YOU'. Benajee Kollections delivers accessories from rich and pure african descent fused with a touch of luxury and colour sense. Benajee Kollections presents feminine, stylish and flawless accessory pieces intricately interwoven between luxuriously bold fabrics, african prints, beads and crisp, chic, unique, classy designs with a happy customer in mind. At Benajee Kollection, detailing is very important to us and we make every piece count. Benajee Kollections ...Making Bold Statements.” Benajee Kollections

 

Paulina Opoku-Gyimah says: Benajee Kollections is an accessories brand based in Accra Ghana. Their designs are young, funky and on-trend. There’s an elegant, streamlined, fabulous neatness about their clutches –making them must-haves. I think they need a stockist in London ASAP…
Team Benajee Kollections -is also at the top of its marketing game. Their USP is their excellent customer and delivery services –shipping worldwide.

At Benajee Kollections “all orders can be paid in the Ghana Cedi, Dollar or Pound equivalent currency”, with orders outside of Accra carrying “a delivery surcharge of GHS8.00” –and “orders outside Ghana” -requiring additional surcharges for shipment –only.
For more info or to purchase the above pieces -visit Benajee Kollections’ lovely website at: http://benajeekollections.getafricaonline.com/




P.s aren’t the above images lovely? They are sooo well shot –whoever shot them should be proud –as they’ll look good in any publication.

Fashion: Wear Ghana


 
 
 


“WEAR GHANA is focused on building a world-class brand here in Ghana that Ghanaians will patronize over and above other world- famous brands.

WEAR GHANA is the very definition of personality couture. We believe that we are all what we wear; and that clothes do speak loudest. More than just another fashion house, we are Ghana's foremost Image and Personality Consultants, specializing in clothes and accessories that turn people into loveable brands. We are a team of young, innovative enthusiasts who like to break barriers and do the impossible. We make history each day with fabrics, buttons, stitches, shapes, colours, patterns and a can-do spirit. We have always believed that as proud as we are as a people with a truly rich cultural.” Wear Ghana
  
 
 
 
 
Paulina Opoku-Gyimah says: It all sounds soooo very interesting and as you can see, the clothes above speak for themselves. Will be keeping my Ghana Rising eyes on this young brand –and so should you. For more info visit: https://www.facebook.com/pages/WEAR-GHANA/403786636326994

Saturday 25 May 2013

Ghana Rising Hearts Phreeda Sharp










Gold Car by Phreeda Sharp



 

 
Paulina Opoku-Gyimah says: Talented –Check. Fab tunes –check. Beautiful –check. Dressed to kill –check. Here’s predicting -rapper Phreeda Sharp, born in Ghana to French/ Ghanaian parents –is music’s Next big Thing!!!

Probably bored rigid with the Azealia Banks comparison, Phreeda Sharp’ s verve is confident and sexy.  Every stylists dream, Phreeda Sharp is innately stylish and her kooky gangsta-meets-couture-doll-verve is all her own –fabulous.

Here’s to another prediction ---copycats copying this stylistaaa left right and centre. …. I’d love to see her on stage in Ghana –it’s just what the industry needs..

Please remember to watch the above film clip of hot, hot Gold Car by Phreeda Sharp via YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDEMBnru03g&feature=youtu.be –and check out her uber duper Spilla tune ---not to be missed.  

 

For more info, to download or to keep up with Phreeda Sharp –visit her official website at: http://www.phreedasharp.com/



Business: The French are coming….




Title: French companies to contribute to Ghana’s development goals


The Vice President of a French Business Confederation MEDEF International, Patrick Lucas, has given the assurance that French companies operating in the Ghana were committed to contribute to achieving the country’s long term development objectives.

“We have the technological expertise, capacity and strong will to lead, integrate and take part together with local and international partners in the numerous projects planned in the near future of the country.”

Mr Lucas said this at a press conference of high level managers from 30 French companies in various strategic sectors during a two-day visit to Ghana to have a clear picture of the opportunities offered by the Ghanaian economy.

The delegation was led by Mr Lucas and Mr Marc Rennard, President of the French Business Council for West Africa of MEDEF International.

Mr Lucas said the French companies were convinced of Ghana’s economic potential and investment opportunities and that there are 60 French companies established in the country. He added more new investors were willing to come to Ghana due to the good environment created.

During the two-day visit, the French business leaders meet President John Dramani Mahama, Mr Seth Terkper, the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning and Mr Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Trade and Industry.

He said the French business community saw Ghana as a major partner in Africa, not only for its economic potential but also its political stability and the ease of doing business that had attracted Foreign Direct Investment.

MEDEF International is a French Business Confederation, which represents 800,000 French companies abroad and has started its relations with Ghana in the early ninety’s with a first business delegation to the country in 1992.
Source: GNA



Celebrity Juice: Are Nadia Buari and Jim Iyke a couple?











POG say: Twitter and Blogland are in a tizzy over the apparent confirmation via both Nadia Buari and Jim Iyke’s twitter accounts that they are now officially a couple -and are now going public!!!!  You all know I try to leave the tabloid-y side of ermmmmmmm popular culture alone but I just couldn’t help it… I love Nadia ----So is it true??? There isn’t a week that goes by in Ghana/Africa where Nadia isn’t accused of having a baby (boy) for one Nigerian mogul or another –or going out with one Congolese singer or another or is not fighting with a fellow Ghanaian actress blah, blah, blah, blah…..  

 
Anyway, some believe that according to beautiful Ghanaian actress Nadia Buari’s twitter account at: https://twitter.com/B5sNadiaBuari she confirms her relationship with Jim Iyke by saying:

“There comes a point in ur life wen u realise who really matters, who never did and who always will.~I named him Skittles, he calls me Space.

 
 
 

And according to Nigerian actor Jim Iyke’s latest twitter at: https://twitter.com/jimiykeofficial -he said the following to Nadia:

 
“She calls me Skittles. I named her Space. D gift of laughter, companionship n trust is incomparable. BFF. Love is a f***ing beautiful thang!”

 

And the latest tweet –apparently says it all…..

“@B5sNadiaBuari. Overjoyed 4 ur new love. Reach 4 d skies n gather stars into yr #SPACE. Happiness is urs. U remain my #BFF till my hr calls.”

 
Paulina Opoku-Gyimah says: I don’t know if the above tweets mean they’re together or not, more likely that Nadia has found love and Jim is wishing her every success –no? Regardless, I wish them every success individually or as a couple…everybody deserves love and happiness….