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The winner of the dance reality TV show, Dance with Peter, will emerge this weekend. Amazing Amy, G-Xtreem, Julius Faktah, C-Fly, Da Octopus, Kelvin and Mali Hot Boy are those contesting for the winner’s positions. Though all seven finalists are indubitably talented dancers, the three best who, going by their consistency and dance energy, are likely to win, are Julius Fakta, Kelvin Ayanruo and Amazing Amy. Fakta, a 23-year-old student of the University of Ghana, dreams to be one of the world’s most awesome and fantastic choreographers. 24-year-old Kelvin who hails from Delta State came for auditions as a member of Elevators NG dance crew and was subsequently picked out by the judges to stand as a solo contestant. Amazing Amy is touted to win by many watchers owing to her amazing dance skills. The 17-year-old Amy is currently seeking admission to the university and desires to become a professional dancer. However, many watchers also think Julius Fakta and Kelvin may stand in her way.

“Sir, is it possible to have my face back?” Those were the words of Master Great Okechukwu-Morgan after exchanging greetings during Who Deserves To Be A Millionaire’s initial visit to the Morgans. Great, a 13-year-old SS 1 student of P & P Comprehensive College, Mushin had been involved in an auto accident 7 years before then. His limbs and face were so badly affected in the incident that, even after series of medical treatment, the scars left on his face region were quite unpleasant. He was rejected by schools on the pretext that his face would scare their pupils. And the undue attention that fellow pupils always paid his physique at the school that grudgingly admitted him so disturbed him psychologically that he always felt like absenting himself from school. To help him, his parents sought assistance from the high and low in our society, from many organizations, and engaged in series of consultations to enable them raise funds for surgical operations in India, but all to no ava

Controversial personality and struggling singer, Dencia, has reportedly granted an interview in which she claimed that she makes the whopping sum of $20m a year. According to the report, she granted the interview to the France-based Le Monde, and she claimed she makes cool millions in US dollars every year from her skin whitening cream, Whitenicious. If this is true, then it’s very good for Dencia. However, she’s not yet behaving like other people who make as many millions annually like herself, and her music career, which should be benefitting from her access to millions in US dollars, is floundering instead.

The return of Tiwa Savage to the music industry has been expected for some time now. And the singer, who has been performing without much fanfare in the past few weeks to gauge the sort of reception her return would receive, has now come out boldly to make her return official by announcing that her sophomore album, R.E.D, will hit the market next Monday. While her return is definitely good news to her fans, her rivals, who shone in her absence, will be shaking in their boots now as many good things came their way while Savage was off the scene. Most notable among them who’ll be wondering what her faith will be now is Yemi Alade who this year won the MAMA award for best Africa female artist which Savage won last year.

Saying that Korede Bello is flying high is an understatement. He’s flying very high and is exhibiting signs that he can go even farther than initially expected of him as a musician. With his latest music video, Romantic, it has become apparent that Bello means business and is constantly thinking of how to advance his career. One step he takes thereby, though it can’t really be said to be a positive one, is to style himself to look more and more like one of the greatest Black music artists ever, Michael Jackson. And just like Jackson, he’s also capitalizing on the power of dancing to sell his brand. In his first video, God Win, he came up with a dance style that was unique to him, and he has done so in Romantic as well. And the move seems to be paying off for him. In this day and age when Youtube views determine to a great extent the rating of an artist’s brand, his Romantic, released on the same day with Wizkid’s latest music video for his song, Final (Baba Nla), has amassed double of

Traditional drumming, cultural dance, chanting of festivity songs, beauty pageant contest amongst many other activities ushered the commemoration of the 5th edition of Oya festival held in Ira, Kwara state. The festival was put together by the Olokun Festival Foundation. Prior to the festival in Ira, the night before, guests and facilitators of the event converged on Offa to witness the beauty pageant. Kekong Angela Oyinkansola defeated 12 other contestants to win this year’s edition of Miss Oya Pageant which held at Avalon Hotel, Offa, Kwara State. Oyinkansola, an undergraduate of Tourism Management from the National Open University, NOUN, went home with a brand new car among other items while Sunday Nneka Loveth emerged first runnerup and Amos Foluso Abosede emerged as second runnerup. Speaking during the competition, the Chief promoter of Olokun Foundation Festival, the organiser of the event, Otunba Gani Adams said, “Our girls are the beauty and brains of the younger generation

Tamara Eteimo, one of Nollywood’s hottest actresses, and former winner, The Next Movie Star, tells OSEYIZA OOGBODO BLOG how she got into acting. Why did you become an actress? Well, being an actress for me has always been on my mind as a kid. It started from when I was in secondary school. I performed in all the social activities up until I finished and started getting ready for university. I always saw myself as an entertainer, someone who can mimic because I know I’m good at that, mimicking. I just needed to equip my skills and that was one of the reasons why I went to the University of Port Harcourt to study Theatre Arts. How did your family react when they knew you wanted to act? Well, my dad, at first, he wasn’t receptive because he didn’t like it. He just felt actors are wayward people. When I said I wanted to study Theatre Arts, he didn’t like it. He just felt these people (actors) are unserious people. You can’t really go there and be a serious student. So, I told him, “Just