Ghanaian Music Act Fuse ODG to perform at the 2013 MOBO Awards in Glasgow

Ghanaian pop star Fuse ODG has been confirmed as a performer at the 2013 MOBO Awards.

The Azonto crooner will perform at the show in Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday 19th October 2013. He will join Tinie Tempah, Iggy Azalea, Laura Mvula, Rudimental and So Solid as performers at the ceremony.

He is nominated in the Best Newcomer and Best Video categories. He is also in the Best African Act category alongside Nigerian music stars Ice Prince, Tiwa Savage, Seun Kuti and Wizkid.

T0 vote for your favourite, log on to www.mobo.com/voting2013. Tickets to the show are also available from £28 at mobo.com/tickets.

Miss Phillipines Megan Young Wins Miss World 2013!!

Miss Philippines Megan Lynne Young (born February 27, 1990) is the winner of Miss World 2013 Beauty Pageant.

Megan Young, before her crowning as Miss World actually made it to 3 of the 5 challenges in the Miss World competition.
She won the Top Model challenge with her poise and regal walk, while she placed 5th in the Beach Fashion challenge and 4th in the Multimedia challenge.

Big congrats to her!

Miss Ghana was the 2nd runner up, Miss France first runner up

MI, Burna Boy, others, celebrate Nigeria with Close Up Loves Naija Concerts

You remember the Close Up Loves Naija concert last year which featured musical acts as TuFace Idibia, Naeto C, Omawunmi, Ice Prince and DJ Jimmy Jatt, and the popular theme song produced by Cobhams Asuquo? Well, preparations for this year’s concert are in full gear.
 

With Nigeria’s 53^rd Independence anniversary just a few days away, Nigeria’s top music artistes have gathered to celebrate with concerts in different locations across the country. 

The concerts will feature MI, Olamide, Burna Boy, Chidinma, Phyno and DJ Jimmy Jatt at Silverbird Galleria in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja on the 1^st of October, 2013. The events will comprise full games and activities from 10am and free for all to attend, so mark it down in your calendar.

For more information log on to www.facebook.com/closeupng. The Countdown begins! Naija get ready!!! See more photos from last year’s concert after the cut..

 

Wizkid Tweets : "All she wants to do is smoke and f**k"

Lyrics to a song or is this real life? :-)

Graphic content: Rebels behead Assad's thugs in front of children

These are some of the most brutal scenes to emerge from Syria's civil war. Rebels photographed beheading men loyal to the country's president, right in front of children. UK Daily Mail reports

The sword rests briefly on his neck as a blindfolded man kneels under a clear blue sky. Moments later, the executioner raises his right arm, slashes downwards and the prisoner is dead.The whole barbaric episode is watched by a crowd of jeering men, many of them armed. And sitting on a low wall only a few feet from where the wretched captive died so violently is a line of young boys.

They were still there as the dead man’s head was dumped on his body. Another child, even younger, was led by the hand past the corpse. Warning: Graphic content. Continue...