Top 10 Africa’s Fiercest Female Singing Sensations by Channel O

The guys at Channel O just rolled out an unofficial list of the fiercest female singers in Africa. The un-ordered list includes Waje and Tiwa Savage from Nigeria.

We thought Nigeria deserves at least 4 of 10 on this list as Nigerian female singers put in great work right now, but hey, the sultry singers down South and East Africa are doing great too.

Peep the artistes they ranked below

Zonke Dikana

Given her very musical background, there was probably no other career that South African songstress Zonke Dikana could have chosen. Her first album “Life,love and music” was released in 2007 but it wasn’t until 2011, when she dropped “Ina ethe” that she gained the recognition due to her. It scooped her a SAMA for Best African adult album. Her follow up project, “Give and take”, saw her take home another SAMA for best live DVD.

Lira
With four albums under her belt, 10 SAMA awards, a BET nomination for best international act in Africa and a biography, Lerato Molapo needs no introduction in the music industry. She has continuously reinvented herself, ensuring her long lasting power.

Tiwa Savage
There is so much that can be said about Tiwatope Savage, who has been singing since the age of 17. Her musical career is so illustrious and includes various accolades including having a song that she co-wrote for Fantasia being nominated for a Grammy. She has also backed up musical giants such as Mary J Blidge and George Michael and last year won her fisrt CHOAMVA for most gifted female.

Moneoa
Moneoa Moshesh burst on to the music scene in mid-2012 to positive reviews. Her debut album “Coming from going to” was nominated for the Channel O Music and Metro FM Music awards, although she did not win. Her latest album, “Ndim Lo”, has scored two Metro FM Music Awards nominations this year.

Lady Jay Wah
She has been described as the Ghanaian It Girl when she burst onto the scene into the scene in 2012. Signed to Pidgen music, her sound combines Neo soul, Afrobeat, Reggae and Pop. She is seen as one of Ghana’s fastest rising stars.

Victoria Kimani
Victoria Kimani, born in LA but originally from Kenya started writing, recording and performing at 16. She lived in Nigeria durig her high school years but moved back to Nairobi, Kenya at 17. She has since been working with top artists and producers, perfecting and developing her musical and visual craft as well as writing for all sorts of signed artists around the world.

Waje
WAJE (an acronym for “Words aren’t just enough”) is a Nigerian singer whose vocal range is famous for its versatility. Born Aituaje Iruobe, she is the lady behind the remake of P-Square’s Omoge Mi and the female voice in the duo’s 2008 hit track do me.

Efya
Her full name is, wait for it: Jane Fara Fauzzier Afia Boafowaa Yahaya Awindor. She is a Ghanaian neo-soul vocalist, songwriter, performer and actress from Kumasi.

Zahara
Loliwe is South African singing sensation’s first album and it broke records by going platinum in 13 days and double platinum after just 17 days, selling over 100,000 copies in South Africa. The music video for her debut single, “Loliwe”, has eclipsed the 2.3 million views mark on YouTube. Her second studio album “Phendula” also went platinum in 7 days after being released.

Naima Kay
Naima Kay, born Lungile Khumalo is a 2014 SAMA Best Newcomer award winner. She describes her 12-track debut album “Umsebenzi” as being about love, life and things that happen around us.

You have any artiste that should have made or not made this list? Share your thoughts

Beyonce, Jay Z, Paris Hilton, Naomi Campbell at Rihanna’s 27th Birthday Party – Photos

A surprise birthday party was thrown for Rihanna by her closest friends in Los Angeles on Friday, February 20th.
Rihanna was presented with a huge three-tire cake and had her name made up with hundreds of balloons inside the venue.

The pop beauty was rocking a slinky silver dress for the occasion and huge hoop earrings.





Photos: Twitter/Instagram

Scary Photos Of Boko Haram Members As They Stormed Town In Gombe….PHOTOS!

Boko Haram members on Saturday stormed a town in Gombe state in their numbers to carry out their usual attacks.

Their attack was repelled by men of the Nigerian Army who succeeded in chasing them away and defending the town.

Chidinma Clears The Air On The Real Reason She & Flavour Shared Romantic Kiss

Chidinma and Flavour have been in the face of the media since they both kissed passionately in Flavour’s new video ‘Ololufe’. Chidinma has come out to clear the air on the kiss they shared in the video and explained that it was only a professional relationship that they both shared and nothing more.
While speaking with HipTV in a recent interview, Chidinma cleared the air saying: ‘I try as much as possible to stay scandal free but we all know that you are in this industry and even when you are trying so hard, some people will still have some terrible things to say but I try though.’

When quizzed about the making out scene in the video, she said: ‘Well, it is a love song and we were supposed to be a couple, so whatever you saw was acting, we were acting out the lyrics of the song, and for everyone who cares to listen, I’m not dating Flavour’.

Jonathan Says Boko Haram Leader Will Be Arrested Before March 28 Election

In a recently published interview with ThisDay Newspaper. President Jonathan revealed that he underestimated the strength of the insurgents, Boko-Haram. The President also said firmly that he believes the leader of Boko-Haram will be arrested before the election slated for March 28th.

“I think the thing that has brought this government down with both Nigerians and non-Nigerians, is the issue of Boko Haram. One thing is that terrorism is all over the world, but they believe that we did not handle it the way we were supposed to handle it. Probably at the beginning, we and I mean myself and the team, we underrated the capacity of the Boko Haram. Capacity not in terms of what they have in Nigeria, but their international linkages, we underrated that and thought that we were dealing with some local elements that we could overrun.
Many of the security chiefs had made statements that later on you people took them up on. That shows they underestimated their capacity. We’ve now realised that the handshake had gone above the elbow and so we have to move fully and that’s why we are running round to get the right military equipments we need. Somehow we could not get them early enough, and now it has moved too close to the election. But with what is happening now, in the next two weeks, that is three weeks into the six weeks, God willing, Nigerians will be happy with what the military has done in the North-east.
On whether there is anything I would have done differently, yes. I think one thing about the government is that we have done quite a number of things. At times many of us in the government don’t even know what we have done. People tell us. I remember in the beginning of this campaign, if I wanted to visit a state, I will ask those in my office to list out some of our projects in some of these states so that we can tell them what we’ve done. Sometimes when I go to the states, people from the host governments will give me a longer list than the ones prepared for me in my office. That means that even some of us in the government don’t even know all of what we have done to impact positively on Nigeria.
Probably we did not put attention and resources on media and public relations. Public relations is a major thing and that is why companies have departments for this. No matter what you do, you must have a team that would manage your image. Shell doesn’t need anybody to advertise their crude oil, they’ve sold it already, but they still have image makers. I think we downplayed the issue of image for the government, and of course making our achievements known.
Also probably the issue of corruption, because these are the two areas people tackle us – corruption and security. For security, God willing, that will soon be a thing of the past. The next thing is the issue of corruption, and I used to tell people: if I don’t want to fight corruption, I wouldn’t have brought in (Ibrahim) Lamorde as chairman of the EFCC.
I came on board as the vice-president of Yar’Adua, (Nuhu) Ribadu, you all know the story, was removed. Lamorde was Ribadu’s second in command, he was the Director of Operations, and was removed from the EFCC back to the police. Farida was appointed and she was trying her best, because she used to brief me from time to time. We had to drop her because of reports from both within this country and outside. And given that Ribadu was Lamorde were well- trained by the west, they argued that if I bring Lamorde back that EFCC would improve. If I am someone that don’t want to fight corruption I would not have listened and brought back Lamorde because he once investigated me. My in-law was detained here in Abuja for weeks. But I sent for him and told him that Nigerians and non-Nigerians believed in him, so we would bring him to help EFCC, because he was the backbone of Ribadu. So we asked him to come and be the head of the agency.
But people often say that my body movement encourages corruption which is not true. Lamorde told me about their limitations, being in court and the court compromising. I then came up with some innovations again. Though constitutionally, the three arms of government are not supposed to meet; there is no platform for the three to meet, even though the executive and parliament do meet because we are all politicians, but I said look we must, for the image of the country, come together. I then called for a special meeting with myself, the vice-president, then the head of corruption agencies, EFCC, ICPC and the Senate president and his deputy, then the speaker and his deputy. Then for the judiciary, all the judges of the federation, the president of the court of appeal, the chief judge of the federal high court and (from) each of the zones, we nominated a state chief judge each. I told them that the executive, legislature and judiciary must work together in the interest of the country to fight corruption.
I called the meeting because of the issue of court delay, and we discussed and everybody showed concern. But the judiciary operates like a university setting where every lecturer behaves like he is 100 per cent academic freedom .Every judge has some level of autonomy, and if they don’t operate that way there will be issues. So there is a limit that even the chief judge of the federation can control a judge. The only thing is that if they misbehave they will be punished under their guide book, but other than that, the judge can decide to ignore any decision. We had several meetings, and it was in one of those meetings that the question came up about the difference between corruption and stealing based on the laws.
We are doing our best to see that corruption is reduced. You can see that in the payroll system, we have eliminated corruption and theft including the agric sector. One major area that we will go into is the oil sector. So we are going to sanitise all the sectors, but I always believe that fighting corruption is not just about first arresting people and celebrating the arrest on television. We have to investigate and prosecute before publicity” he said.

Wizkid Expresses His Desire to Work With Asa

While Asa is busy in Europe getting groovy and all that stuff as she continues her Bed of Stone tour, Wizkid is somewhere in the corner admiring the superstar artiste.

The Starboy leader took to his social page to express his desire to work with the 32 year old French-Nigerian. Asa rarely works with other artiste, she has released 3 albums and didn't feature any artiste so Wizkid has a lot to do to get her on a track.

"Yo Asa has to be the only one I want to work with so bad! Love love her!," Wizkid wrote on Twitter.

'Share My Blessings' is one of the rare songs Asa has been featured, it was part of Naeto C's 2011 album, Super C Season, Asa hasn't done any collaboration since.

Yo Asa has to be the only one I want to work with so bad! Love love her!

— Wizkid Ayo Balogun (@wizkidayo) February 22, 2015

Mavin Records sweetheart, Di'Ja teams up with Raggae-Dancehall sensation, Patoranking on the cover of Guardian Life Magazine and they both look amazing. Check out some shots of Patoranking below and click HERE for Di'Ja's.

Mavin Records sweetheart, Di'Ja teams up with Raggae-Dancehall sensation, Patoranking on the cover of Guardian Life Magazine and they both look amazing.

Check out some shots of Patoranking below and click HERE for Di'Ja's.

Risky or Not? Davido Takes Mid-Air Selfie

As part of the making of his latest video, The Sound, Davido filmed a particular scene in the video while mid-air. The HKN chief released the video for The Sound on January 30th.

The director of the Dubai shot music video shared the photo of Davido taking a selfie way above ground level on his Instagram and warned his followers not to try it at home.

my bro @davidoofficial taking mid air selfies on the set of his latest video the sound! jeeeez! don't try this out home folks

Seen.

Mavin Chic! Di’Ja Puts On Classy Look For Guardian Life Magazine…PHOTOS!

Mavin singer, Di'Ja is stunning and alluring in her shoot for Guardian Life Magazine and we really can no get enough of her good looks.

The 'Awwww' crooner is set to take the industry by storm and she's already working her way up by dropping top notch materials which has got her fans asking for more. In this shoot, she's styled into different looks and we're definitely loving each one of her looks. She's such a beauty!

Wale Reveals Collaboration With Don Jazzy & Reekado Banks On A New Single

US Based rapper, Olubowale ‘Akintimehim’ popularly known as Wale has revealed he’s finished works on a soon to be released collaborative single with prolific Nigerian producer, Don Jazzy and his artist, Reekado Banks.

Although, details of the title of the single is yet to be available to us but our sources reveal the track is done and is set for release real soon.

I never cheated on Amber: Wiz Khalifa rants on Twitter about not seeing his son on his birthday

Wiz Khaifa and Amber Rose’s son, Sebastian Taylor Thomaz clocked 3 yesterday February 22, and his dad, Wiz Khalifa celebrates on his absence.

Cameron Thomaz popularly known as Wiz Khalifa took to his twitter to rant about not seeing his lil man.

He also added that he never cheated on Amber. See his timeline below (Read buttom up for better understanding of his rant)