DJ KHALED ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM "KISS THE RING"

The powerhouse DJ announces the follow-up to "We the Best Forever."

DJ Khaled has announced the upcoming release of his new album Kiss the Ring, assumedly releasing in 2012.

The Miami, Florida resident released a promotional video revealing the title of his new album, stating that it's "coming soon" and that it will be released through YMCMB/We The Best Music Group.

Khaled's fifth album, We the Best Forever, was released in July 2011, continuing on to sell more than 120,000 copies in the United States. The LP spawned the singles "Welcome to My Hood" and "I'm On One," the latter of which was certified triple platinum.

ASA FOR ELLE BRAZIL...

Also, her album- Beautiful Imperfection, is the iTunes Music Rewind 2011 pick for Contemporary World Music Album of the Year in the US!

RITA DOMINIC BEATS GENEVIEVE,INI EDO, STEPHANIE OKEREKE,OTHERS TO WIN ARIK AIRLINE BEST ACTRESS

Was Rita Dominic desperate to win the newly instituted Arik Airline Awards category for Best Actress at the just concluded African International Film Festival(AFRIFF), or was it just providence?

Recall that Dominic accused Ini Edo of manipulating the online voting result which led to the cancellation of the exercise, a week before the festival kicked off in Lagos.

But in a twist of fate, last weekend, the actress eventually emerged the winner of the same award.

However, she won the award not by voting, instead through a lucky dip conducted by former Miss World, Agbani Darego.

At last weekend’s AFRIFF awards night held at Oriental Hotel, Lekki, Lagos, BBA regular host IK Osakioduwa who anchored the glamorous event with Rita Dominic had called out the ex-beauty queen, all for the purpose of selecting a winner of the award through lucky dip. After all said and done, Rita Dominic emerged the lucky winner beating Stephanie Okereke, Omoni Oboli, Genevieve Nnaji and others who were also nominated for the award. But Ini Edo’s name was conspicuously missing during the lucky dip.

Interestingly, this happened to be the first time, where a winner would emerge in an international contest of this magnitude through lucky dip.

But for IK, the organisers decided to adopt that means as the sponsors insisted on giving out the award to a winner, no matter the odds.

By winning the award, Rita Dominic will be flown to the Tribeca Film Festival, billed to hold in New York next year, by Arik Airline.

Apart from the Best Actress award, there were also winners in other categories of indigenous awards instituted by the airline. They were ace-film maker, Mahmood Ali-Balogun, whose “Tango with Me” remains one of the best movies ever shot by a Nigerian, won the Best Producer of the Year, and actor Desmond Elliot who won the Best actor award.

Kenyan Jane Murago-Munene’s “The Unbroken Spirit”won the Best Documentary category while Le Parrian by Pale Sie Lazare won in the area of Best Animation.

The Viewers’ choice award, awarded in terms of feedback of the audience concerning movie screened in the course of the festival, went to The Education of Auma Obama while Niji Akanni’s Aramotu lift the country at the event by winning the Best Feature Film prize, considered to be the most coveted award of the whole lot.

The film beat such films as Lancelot Imasuen’s epic film “Ädesuwa’, “Better Mus Come’by a Jamaican director, Storm Saulter, “Elza’s Happiness” directed by Marietter Monpierre from France amongst other films to cliche the prize.

The awards night was graced by a galaxy of celebrities across the world who dressed to kill. Mostly Nollywood super actors and actresses were the cynosure of attraction at the event. Kate Henshaw, Genevieve Nnaji, Stephanie Okereke, Omoni Oboli, Ini Edo, Monalisa China, Nse Etim Ipe, Rita Dominic, Uche Nnanna, Amaka Igwe, Celine Loaderand, Desmond Elliot, Kunle Afolayan, OC Ikeje, and a host of others.

WAR AGAINST WAR AGAINST BOKO HARAM: PRESIDENT JONATHAN APPROVE N5 BILLION ROBOTIC BOMB DETECTORS

To protect the presidential villa and its environs, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the sum of N5billion for the purchase of robotic bomb detectors for Aso Rock.

Ehn ehn, they are protecting themselves and not the masses abi? I see...:)

'TWO LESBIANS RAISED A BABY AND THIS IS WHAT THEY GOT' (VIDEO)

"Zach Wahls, a 19-year-old University of Iowa student spoke about the strength of his family during a public forum on House Joint Resolution 6 in the Iowa House of Representatives. Wahls has two mothers, and came to oppose House Joint Resolution 6 which would end civil unions in Iowa."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yMLZO-sObzQ

Over a million people have shared this video in the last few days as it has been shown on Facebook and Twitter around the world. This earnest, articulate, intelligent, and fine upstanding young man speaks with passion and eloquence on his own experience as a child of a gay couple.

What do you think? We now know much more about sexual orientation than we knew in the past. Homosexuality is not a choice. You are born that way, just as you are born with a certain skin or eye colour, temperament or build.

Should the state determine whether or not a couple should be allowed to marry, regardless of their age, sex or religion?

BILLBOARD NAMES ADELE 'ARTIST OF THE YEAR'

Billboard Magazine has named UK singer and song writer Adele Laurie Blue Adkins professionally known as Adele as the ‘Artist of the Year’ for the year 2011.

Adele’s second album, 21, was the best-selling of the year with 4.8M copies sold. Her song ‘Rolling in the deep’ was adjudged the most popular song with alongside pop singers LMFAO‘s ‘Party Rock Anthem’.

Adele, 23, is the first recipient of the Brit Awards ‘Critics’ Choice’ and was named the number one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. Since her debut album, 19, Adele has received much recognition both commercially and critically.

The album debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and has been certified four times platinum in the UK. Her career in the US was boosted by a viewer record–breaking Saturday Night Live episode in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele won the awards for ‘Best New Artist’ and ‘Best Female Pop Vocal Performance’.

Adele has six nominations in the forthcoming 54th annual Grammy Awards which is set to  take place on February 12, 2012 at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles.

STAR ACTOR CHINEDU IKEDIEZE A.K.A AKI EXCHANGED MARITAL VOWS WITH NNEOMA AT RCCG PARISH

Friday,December 9,2011,star actor Chinedu Ikedieze popularly known as Aki exchanged marital vows with his heartthrob, Nneoma Nwaijah.

The event which held at The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Abundant grace parish, Ogba attracted dignitaries from all walks of life including entertainers and politicos.

His good friend, Osita Iheme (Pawpaw) was his bestman.

It would be recall that the couple had their traditional wedding on Saturday, November 26, at the bride’s home town, in Obolo, Isiala Mbano, Imo State.

Checkout pictures from the mind-blowing wedding below.

MICHEAL JACKSON's DAUGHTER PARIS GETS FIRST MOVIE ROLE

The 13-year-old has made no secret of her desire to follow her late father into the entertainment industry.

It seems that the daughter of the late King of Pop Michael Jackson, the U.S. only «Paris» chose limelight after her grandmother was able to convince to allow her to play her first movie role.

The newspaper «The Sun» British Paris Jackson, aged 13 years will play a starring role in a new film.

He explained that the girl will be the heroine of the film where the characters blend of the real world and animation.

He noted that the Jackson family wanted to not be the girl's state of the profession before the age of 18,

But she managed to convince the grandmother Catherine (81 years),

Which is the guardian of three grandchildren, to shoot the film, which sends the message close to the heart of her late father.

Quoted «Sun» source familiar with the «personal love (performed by Paris) to her father's strong is the basis of the idea of ​​the film».

The film returns of revenue to support schools of America.

"For more details on Michael Jackson, check out USA Today"

AT LAST ! STAR ACTRESS STEPHNORA OKERE OPENS UP ABOUT HER ERSTWHILE AFFAIR WITH JIM IYKE

Although talented actress StephNora Okere and star actor Jim Iyke’s love affair ended several years ago,many in the showbiz industry still make reference to the affair and still wonder why it never led to the duo marrying each other.

Jim and Steph had the best of times then. They were one of the hottest 'lovebirds' in Nollywood.

But the whole thing packed up based on allegations and counter allegations of infidelity.Steph also alleged that Jim was always beating her while the romance lasted.

Unlucky in love, Steph, as colleagues call her, has had relationships, some people say, with the wrong men.

The list includes Tony One Week, erratic and violent Jim Iyke who used to batter her on the streets and finally a marriage with Yoruba heartbreak kid Lanre Falana, which finally led to what she has called a marriage in process that never came through.

Now free from all enncumberances. Steph seems to be getting her groove back.

In a recent interview, StephNora Okere went down memory lane on her erstwhile affair with controversial actor Jim Iyke,although she denied the allegations of battering.

I have consciously tried not to say anything about Jim Iyke. It’s not because I feel bad. I’m just not the kiss and tell type. I respect what we had, and the way it went. I don’t talk about Jim Iyke; I don’t give it an audience.

The last movie I shot in 2008, he was one of my cast. He acted in my movie. I paid him. That is enough to show that we don’t have a sour relationship. There was no wahala. We talked about it and both of us went about our separate ways. Jim is one person I am very happy for.

There are some people that you encounter in your life that you appreciate who they are and if you move on, you know you have moved on. That doesn’t mean you have to start throwing tantrums everywhere. There is really no reason to do that. I am happy for him and I am happy for who he is. So why should it be that anytime there is an interview, the question is always “Jim this, Jim that.” I don’t really have to talk about the guy. He didn’t do anything bad to me, and if you ask him, I didn’t do anything bad to him either. What happened between us was really a case of two consenting adults; I got married after that and he went on with his career. If you ask him, he doesn’t want to talk about me too. There is really nothing there to talk about. It was the press who tried to make issues out of it. When two people split, must there be an issue? There is no issue, unless you want to make one up. If he remembers, I told him “you have a very long way to go”. And, today, he’s not doing badly. And I am very happy for him. As an actor, he is okay.

'I FEAR I'LL DIE LIKE PRINCESS DIANA' - LADY GAGA

Controversial and weird US singer Lady Gaga says she is writing a song about the late British Royal Lady Diana who died in a car accident in Paris in 1997.

She has also added that she fears she may end up losing her life in a similar fashion.

A source told The Sun newspaper: ‘Gaga has always been absolutely engrossed in the life of Diana and sees herself as a 21st-century incarnation of her’.

‘She knows she is almost as recognizable as Diana and is hounded by photographers and fans on the same level. Gaga has had dreams about dying the same way as her and has genuine fears that her fame could literally kill her, either in a chase or at the hands of crazies’, the source was quoted to have said.

Gaga’s earlier single, ‘Paparazzi‘, was also about the perils of celebrity and was also written with the tragic figure of Diana in mind.

The pop superstar has said: ‘Diana was the most iconic martyr of fame. She died because of it‘,

It was recalled that on August 31 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris, at the age of 36.