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Thursday 25 August 2016


Updated – Tiwa Savage And Young Paris To Collaborate


 

Mavin first lady, Tiwa Savage is ready for her first international collaboration since her ground breaking deal with Jay Z’s record label, Roc Nation.
This was made public yesterday by her home record company, Mavin Records and also confirmed by Roc Nation.
“TiwaSavage and@YoungParis, last night in the studio,” Roc Nation captioned the photo of the two artistes lounging in a studio yesterday. And Mavin’s official Instagram added, “We up to something!”
This collaboration is coming just weeks after Tiwa Savage confirmed her deal with Roc Nation and has since been on her first US tour.



It’s been 15 years since Aaliyah Haughton’s unexpected passing (Aug. 25). Within that time span, her music has continued to serve as an inspiration and catalyst for other artists’ careers. The epitome of sticking true to the real you, Aaliyah made sure that her opinions on her career mattered without compromise for the sake of success, leading her to be one of the few authentic and relatable entertainers in the industry. With three solid and genre-defying albums immortalized in her discography, the Detroit native aimed to elevate her sound with each full-length project, leading you to wonder what would’ve been next for the famed singer.
Throughout the week, we’ll publish stories which you’ll be able to find on this page, providing in-depth recollections of those who’ve worked closely with Aaliyah, from her teenage years to stepping into her womanhood. Fifteen years later, she’s still one in a million.
  • From Baby Girl To More Than A Woman: A Look At Aaliyah’s Growth From Fashion To Dance
    Stylist Derek Lee, choreographer Fatima Robinson and makeup artist Eric Ferrell discuss Aaliyah’s game-changing moments.
  • What The Songbird’s Music Meant To Other Singers And Producers
    Artists and producers share how Aaliyah’s music was ahead of its time.
  • An Ode To Static Major, The Pen Behind Aaliyah’s Self-Titled Album
    Collaborators turned close friends share their memories of Static Major in the studio.
  • Wednesday 24 August 2016


    Comedian Ali Baba shared the photo below showing some of his pet dogs and revealed that he named them after different world leaders (Both past & present).
    Ali Baba claims that former Nigerian President Obasanjo, was aware and impressed that he had a dog named after him.
    Read below.


    My dogs and I back in the day. Must have had like 12 at a particular point in time. Interesting time.
    That time I mean. I had traveled and returned at night, but was too tired to relate with them. OBJ, the big Alsatian was the head of the pack.
    Then Obama was the big black and white Great Dane, the Alsatian on the bummer was Thatcher.
    Thatcher must have given me like 18 puppies. In her good days (X120k per puppy) the ridge back by Thatcher was called Madiba. It arrived from South Africa on the birthday of Mandela
    The Second Harlequin Great Dane was named after Queen Amina… But the fiercest of my odds were Chaka, IBB AND Abacha.
    They took no prisoners. In fact, if I gave you anything I had used before, like shoes or clothes,my advice is not to wear them to my home. Because if Chaka, or Abacha caught a whiff of that item on you… You will not like yourself.
    They were my trusted securities and my friend. One time in LEKKI, 1997 or so, a guy scaled the fence into my compound in the night. I was woken up to a shouts of “Oga come o!!!!!”
    “Oga I am finished!” And Usman my maiguard was having a good laugh. At 2am! The petty thief was on the roof of my V-Boot. I was more scared for his life than he was of it. Because then we had Chaka, Ghadaffi and Clinton. Those who new these dogs will testify to their brutality.
    Go ask@basorge_tariah and@officialbunmidavies… But with hind sight now, I am just thanking God. Yes oooo! O have to thank God ooo. That it was not now, that I named my dogs after any sitting president and foreign leaders.
    In fact, Obasanjo himself was very impressed years later when his friend that brought me a gift from Baba, told him how a dog called OBJ in Ali Baba’s house nearly killed him.
    Baba used to warn my wife then, that if she ever decided to have a dog meal, she should not touch OBJ…
    But then again, OBJ had a different kind of personality and a high sense of humor. Everyone can not be the same. So I understand. An that is all I have to say.

    Tuesday 23 August 2016

    Trump calls for special prosecutor to investigate Clinton Foundation

    Trump calls for special prosecutor to investigate Clinton Foundation

    AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump urged the Justice Department on Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate if donors to the Clinton Foundation got special treatment from the State Department when it was run by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
    Trump made the appeal at a rally before thousands of cheering supporters in Akron, Ohio, as he tries to rebound from a slide in national opinion polls with little more than two months to go until the Nov. 8 election.
    Trump accused former President Bill Clinton and his wife of turning the Clinton Foundation charity into a "pay-for-play" scheme in which wealthy donors, foreign and domestic, got favors from the State Department during Hillary Clinton's 2009-2013 tenure as the country's top diplomat.
    Trump faulted both the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation for not indicting Clinton over her use of a private email server as secretary of state. FBI Director James Comey cited her careless handling of classified emails but opted not to prosecutor her.
    "The Justice Department is required to appoint a special prosecutor because it has proved to be, sadly, a political arm of the White House," Trump said. "Nobody has ever seen anything like it before."
    Trump's appeal came the same day a conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, released 725 pages of State Department documents, including some it said were examples of preferential treatment provided to donors at the request of former Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band.
    Trump's call for an independent investigation followed an announcement by the Clinton Foundation that it would no longer accept foreign donations should Clinton be elected president.
    The Clinton campaign fired back at Trump, saying the foundation had already laid out "the unprecedented steps the charity will take if Hillary Clinton becomes president."
    Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said in a statement that Trump "needs to come clean with voters about his complex network" of businesses that are in debt to big banks, including the state-owned Bank of China, after a New York Times report on the subject.
    "Donald Trump should stop hiding behind fake excuses and release his tax returns and immediately disclose the full extent of his business interests," Podesta said.
    SEEKING TO EXPAND BASE
    While keeping up the attack on Clinton, Trump in his speech also outlined some agenda items, as Republicans have been urging him to do for months. The more disciplined Trump followed a campaign shake-up last week that brought in veteran pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager.
    But in a sign that organizational challenges remain, Trump canceled a rally planned for later this week in Las Vegas and postponed an immigration speech in Denver.
    Earlier on Monday, Trump insisted he was not "flip-flopping" on immigration, despite a comment by Conway on Sunday that his plan to deport 11 million illegal immigrants was still under review.
    In his Akron remarks, Trump, struggling to broaden his support beyond the white working-class voters who have been his base of support, again urged blacks and Hispanics to give him a chance, saying: "What the hell do you have to lose?" repeating a line he delivered on Friday that was criticized by Clinton as "ignorant."
    Trump said Democratic politicians had not been able to stem crime and poverty in inner cities despite pledges to do every election year.
    "I say it and I'm going to keep saying it and some people say: 'Wow that makes sense' and some people say: 'That's not very nice,'" Trump said. "And I say it with such a deep-felt feeling, what do you have to lose? We’ll bring jobs back. We’ll bring spirit back. We'll get rid of the crime."

    10 Truly Disgusting Facts About Ancient Roman Life


    Ancient Rome holds a mythic place in our imaginations. It’s the land of historical epics like Ben-Hur and Gladiator, where men in golden armor ride chariots and emperors are fed grapes in reclining chairs. Real life in Rome, though, was quite a bit less glamorous. In a time before modern sanitation and medicine, getting through an average day was a difficult task—and far more disgusting than you could ever imagine. 10 People Washed Their Mouths Out With Urine In ancient Rome, pee was such big business that the government had special taxes in place just for urine sales. There were people who made their living just from collecting urine. Some would gather it at public urinals. Others went door-to-door

    Hillary Clinton Tells Jimmy Kimmel She's 'Embarrassed' by 'Boring' Emails

     
    Hillary Clinton took on two controversial topics in a late-night interview on ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' on Monday.
    First, Kimmel quizzed the Democratic presidential candidate about news that broke earlier in the day of the release of additional emails from the time she served as secretary of state.
    "The state department said that they have to release 15,000 emails by the deadline is a couple of days before the debate," Kimmel said. "Are you concerned about that?"
    "No," Clinton responded. "Jimmy my emails are so boring. And I’m embarrassed about that. They’re so boring. So we’ve already released, I don’t know, 30,000 plus so what’s a few more."
    When Kimmel asked Clinton about the rumors swirling about her health, she offered up her hand and said "take my pulse."
    Kimmel agreed as Clinton explained "to make sure I’m alive." That's when Kimmel took her hand and gasped telling the audience "oh my god there’s nothing there."
    Clinton played off Kimmel's words, implying that the stories are baseless. "With every breath I take, I feel like it's a new lease on life," Clinton quipped sarcastically.
    Last week during a speech about terrorism, Donald Trump said the former secretary of state “lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on” ISIS. Trump also went after the length of Clinton's speeches, saying she'd rather "go back home and go to sleep."
    Donald Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani continued that attack on Fox News Sunday when he told the audience to “go online and put down Hillary Clinton Illness and take a look at the videos for yourself.”
    Clinton called the Republican nominee's health attack a "wacky strategy" and chalked it up to the "crazy things," said by Trump and his allies.
    "It absolutely makes no sense," Clinton said. "I don’t go around questioning Donald Trump's health. I mean as far as I can tell, he’s as healthy as a horse."
    At one point during the interview, Kimmel asked Clinton to open a jar of pickles to prove how healthy she is.
    The two also discussed how the former former first lady was preparing to debate the billionaire businessman.
    Clinton told the late-night host "I’m planning on drawing off my experiences from elementary school.”

    Wednesday 8 June 2016

    BET Awards 2016: Falz nominated as Best New International Act

    Falz The Bahd Guy.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Falz The Bahd Guy.
    Nigerian singer, Falz has just been unveiled as a nominee for the 2016 BET Awards Viewers’ Choice in the ‘Best New International Act’ category.
    He battles other talented up-and-coming artists from around the world including: Emtee (South Africa), MHD (France), Tkay Maidza (Australia), WSTRN (UK) and Section Boyz (UK).
    Voting for the Viewer’s Choice category is now open, and will close on June 22, 2016.

    Hosted by Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross, the 2016 BET Awards will witness performances by Alicia Keys, Maxwell and more, as well as a star-studded tribute to legendary pop icon Prince featuring Sheila E., The Roots, D’Angelo and Janelle Monae.
    The BET Awards will take place along with the BET Experience at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles from 23-26 June 2016 and it’ll premiere on BET (DStv channel 129) on Tuesday June 28, 2016 June at 19:00 CAT.