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-Oremeji
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Meet Sema Okoturo
Describe your Style and what Style means to you
Personally, I believe Style is an expression of personality through clothes. My moods often tend to be reflected by the way I dress.
Tell us about a few of your favourite things
Hmmmmmnnn… I’m a lover of high heeled shoes! My all time favourite has to be my Daf. Its super comfortable and I absolutely love how high the heel is. 
Favourite Place to shop and why?
Zara, Zara, Zara!!!! That has to be my all time favourite store. I really don’t even bother going elsewhere to be honest. My closet is full of Zara. They undoubtedly cater to my taste. However, So much love for my African designers Virgos Lounge, Republic Of Foreigner, JBL, and of course Tiffany Amber are a few of my favourites. They tend to reflect my personal style with each collection there is always a piece that screams SEMA!!
Style Inspirations/Icons
Without any debate my style Icon is Victoria Beckham, my love for her style is unreal, her sense of style is out of this world. Absolutely love her. I also adore Solange, Taylor Tomasi-hill, Miroslava Duma, and June ambrose. So much love for their style.
One Secret/advice to others on style & looking good
Discover yourself, be aware of your body type and what suits it best, and whatever you do, whatever you wear, always look FABULOUS! 
Ultimate Fashion DO and Don’t
Ultimate fashion do: Simplicity is key. You know how they say “Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication” yeah, that’s right. I mean I have nothing against going all out, I absolutely love it, but, know your limit.
Thank you so much Sema!
Visit her tumblr here
***Just like our firs guest Uyi, Sema is also Eki’s cousin… Great style runs in the family. 
Don’t forget to check Ore’s feature here
P.S: Expect another style post very soon!
(If you would like to be featured or if you’d like to share a memorable Nigerian boarding school story/memory/experience send us an email at oremejiblog@gmail.com, looking forward to it!)
-OreMeji
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Seven days with Uyi
Sunday – purple shirt/maroon pants. i wore this to church
Monday – baggy khaki pants/blazer/scarf worn as bow tie. i wore this to work.
Tuesday – faux fur jacket. out for drinks with friends
Wednesday – vintage jacket/combat boots. wore to work and afterwards to happy hour for drinks and japanese bbq
Thursday – dinner date at Benihanna with a dgirlfriend
Friday – mustard blazer/boots. house party
Saturday – black sweater/flare jeans. wore to breakfast
Thank you Uyi.
For more on Uyi’s style, click here to see her style feature
-Oremeji
Lady Luxe
Duro Olowu Fall 2012
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Duro Olowu’s fall 2012 collection for New York Fashion Week.
Those are our fave picks, amazing!
-Oremeji
Marni for H&M
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Those are our favorite from the collection. We most especially love the prints, reminds us of the now popular ankara fabric. There are also a lot of statement pieces in the collection both clothes and accessories that would look in our closet.
-Oremeji
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Pancake Day
Well in Nigeria we don’t have such so this is not what I’m familiar with. As I am in another man’s country and they have a day for one of my fave things to eat… I decided to make pancake! lol well crepes anyway, haven’t had/made some in a while.
Yes oh, we went all out! Melted chocolate, strawberries and ice cream. It was yum but definitely a lot of calories. I made 8 in total we ate 2 and I’m keeping the rest for some FFO’s when they come tomorrow.
*FFO meaning Friends For Opportunity, in this case being food. People say friends for food all na the same.
We watched Gossip Girl while we ate, then took some pictures after… That’s Victoria!
So… did you miss us? Style post coming up soon… x
-Eki
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Shining Star
We Love us some Nneka!!!
We’ll be back sooner than you know.
-OreMeji
Our 100th post
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Welcome to another installment of the NBS series.
If you went to a Nigerian Boarding School, you can probably relate with a lot of the factual accounts we post on here. This one comes from someone I went to high school with, and it tells the sad, sad tale of life in the male boarding house. Trust me, things weren’t this extreme with us girls (at least in my personal experience). Names have been changed to protect people’s privacy! But if you like, go ahead and guess who we might be referring to lol. Here it goes:
“So many senior stories… The first one is about someone that I’m going to call Daxs. When we (junior students at that time) piss Dax off, he just brings out his belt , flogs you and demands you scream/sing: “I’m loving it” at the top of your voice. I think Daxs got it from the mcdonalds adverts”.
LMAO. That “I’m loving it” part killed me. Anyway, his story continues:
“Once upon a time, at the exclusive Topaz house dining table, I was asked by a certain senior, let’s call him Teeee.P, to run an errand (can’t remember what it was, possibly to get extra bread or something). Without thinking, I immediately obeyed, I mean you do not want to mess with an SS3 student when you are in JS2. Anyway, on my way to get the bread oh, the late Mr Nwigwe (may his soul R.I.P) asked me to go and sit down, so I did. I mean a teacher is higher than a student right? So I thought to myself when Teeee.P asks me for his stuff, I’ll just tell him “a teacher told me to sit down”. I thought wrong, Teeee.P grabbed me while I was leaving and spoke these words to me , after I explained what had happened: “think about things boy, I can beat you up while the teacher won’t, so obey me!”. I left that day confused!”
Okay these seniors are just something else. Think about things boy? Lmao. I feel like if someone said that to me, I would just burst out laughing in their face. At my own peril, of course.
“Random funny moment, SS3’s got the freshers (Js1 boys) to hold each other’s waists and dance to slow music. I almost died.
The guy I’m talking about now is a legend. This scene happened in the same Topaz dining hall. It was a Jollof rice evening, meaning everyone was happy and ready to devour all the meat, rice and coleslaw. Girls didn’t front for boys on those J.rice evenings (I wish I could mention names). There were about 20 pieces of meat served on each table of 10 people. On this certain day, every single piece of meat was spoilt, I could even tell by the smell that was coming from the bowl. I was very disappointed after rushing to get there early so that I could say “after you” to some grubber who managed to get the before me…”
Saying “I’m after you” was standard protocol for everything in our high school. If an item could be passed around, someone was ALWAYS lining up after somebody else to use it. Popular items that you could be “after” somebody for include but are not limited to: food, showers, pens, high tea basket, girls. The story continues:
“…every other person on my table except for this one senior, refused to touch the meat. This great senior, with the gut of a pig, ate almost all the pieces of meat. After he had eaten about 8 pieces, the school’s caterer came in to inform of us that the meat was spoilt and that no one should eat the meat. The senior didn’t care because by this time, he had eaten about 16 pieces. By the time I got back to the boarding house, all the toilets were full, people were busy all night. I wonder what kind of diarrhea that senior had that night. And that’s all I have for now!
Signed: Anonymous (but you can call me scooby).
Haha, well Scooby, thank you for giving us some insight into what your high school experience was like.
If you would like to contribute a story to the NBS series, drop a comment below and we’ll be in touch.
Ciao
-Tiwa.
Sol-Angel
Love me some Solange! She’s a little bit of everything- singer-songwriter, model, actress, dancer and DJ. She’s created her own identity and is a cool kid living a simple life in Brooklyn really. She’s this month’s (February 2012) Vogue ‘Today I’m Wearing’ person, check her out every day of this month here.
We Love Solange!!!
