JACKSON 5 BACK TOGETHER - UNITY TOUR 2012...without Michael though!

Though, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon may be the Jacksons that'll be performing onstage in their just-launched “Unity Tour 2012″...they still say, MICHAEL will definitely be stealing the show as usual. 

On "Good Morning America show Tito said:

“He’s on stage with us in spirit as well,” 

“It’s very emotional.

30 years after the brothers went separate ways with their careers, they are back, playing to packed houses on their just-launched “Unity” tour that will take them to more than 20 cities across North America this summer.

Jermaine told GMA:

“What brought us back together was time and the fans.”   

“It’s the music that gets us going.”

of Michael? Jermaine said:

“It’s very hard.”

“You’re singing these songs and all of a sudden something hits you.”

The reunion marks the first time all four brothers have toured together since their 1985 “Victory Tour.”  Their set includes hits that led them to become the first group ever to have their first four singles hit number 1 on the Billboard Charts, songs like “ABC” and “I Want You Back,” songs they’ve had to adapt in Michael’s absence.

Jackie had this to say,

“No one can take Michael’s part but we’re doing a great job.” 

“We’re all sharing parts together.”

Marlon said:

“This was our launching pad,” 

“We used to come to amateur night at the Apollo and try to make a name for ourselves.  So we wanted to come and give something back.”

And as it relates to what Beyonce wrote to Michael Jackson

“She’s incredible,”  Jermaine said “It’s a great feeling because we worked so hard. Our whole thing was to work hard and to achieve and I guess it shows. We’re very happy that people have admired and loved the things we’ve done over the years.”

“We thank our parents,” said Marlon.  “Our parents saw that we could entertain and know that we had enjoyed it so they made sure that we stuck with it and this was the outcome.”

” My whole thing is you’re a child,” said Marlon, echoing comments made by Janet Jackson, who publicly advised her niece to wait to start a career in show business.  ” Enjoy your childhood and once you become an adult you’ll be an adult for the rest of your life, so enjoy your childhood. ”

Great advice!

WHAT RIHANNA SAID ABOUT INSTAGRAM'S OUTAGE

Do we need to say more?

WHY INSTAGRAM WAS DOWN

The message instagram offered

The excuse that was up later

Well, the storm that hit Virginia was to blame for the outage. Why?


Instagram servers are housed in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia and there was a major thunderstorm that caused an outage in the area.


Well, we hope the social network's back for good.

WILL DRAKE & CHRIS BROWN TAKE THE $10MILLION USD TO SETTLE THEIR DIFFERENCES IN THE BOXING RING?

If Chris Brown and Drake agree to settle their differences in a boxing ring, then the money offered is $10Million USD...whoever wins gets $9million and the loser can make do with the remaining $1MillionUSD.

 Celebrity Boxing Federation owner, Damon Feldman and Alki David, a wealthy entrepreneur, originally offered $1 million for the fight, but the two realized that wouldn't be enough.


In Aki's words:
 
"The audience needs their imagination captured as much as the fighters do. These are two very important rap artists who will only do this for a big ticket number." 


"This is something that should be attractive enough to get them in the ring."


Will the duo take the offer? Your guess' as good as ours.

FRENCH COACH DUMPS FRANCE - EURO 2012 FALL-OUT

France's soccer coach has refused to renew his contract as the coach of France...will he be heading to Tottenham?
France's football governing body FFF has confirmed his refusal today, 30th June, 2012.

SERENA WILLIAMS STRUGGLES AGAINST 25TH SEED JIE ZHENG!

First out on Centre Court and hoping for a relatively straightforward afternoon's work, Four time Wimbledon champ, Serena Williams was forced to an energy-sapping struggle that saw her serve to stay in the contest on no less than three occasions and eventually winning with a 6-7(5) 6-2 9-7 victory.

The sixth seed needed three match points to finally put her Chinese opponent to bed, rushing to the net and turning home and athletic volley to win the contest in two hours and 28 minutes.

The second set aside, it was a brutally close contest, with neither player faltering until the very end. Zheng was so comfortable, that game eventually edged the tiebreak to put her more vaunted opponent on the back foot.

Thrust into action Williams bullied her way through the second set to level matters, but the third set did not follow that script - as Williams twice had to serve to stay in the contest at 4-5 and 5-6. That she managed to do and, in truth, Zheng was finding it tougher and tougher to hold - with the pressure finally telling as she faltered at 7-7.

Though Williams wasted two match point opportunities before finally getting the job done.

Williams will now face Yaroslava Shvedova, who defeated 10th seed Sara Errani in an historic match, whose match was most notable for the first set, which saw Shvedova win every single point on the way to clinching it. It is the first time that has ever happened either at Wimbledon or in the women's game, and only the second time it has ever occurred in the professional era.

WHY LADIES WON'T DATE YOU!!!

A recent survey by the dating service has shown the main reason why ladies would not date men. tagged "It's Just Lunch" found that there's one box in particular that straight women want checked: they want the men they date to have jobs.

925 single women were surveyed, 75 percent said they'd have a problem with dating someone without a job. Only 4 percent of respondents asked whether they would go out with an unemployed man answered "of course."

Irene laCota spokesperson for It's Just Lunch said

"This is the rare area, compared to other topics we've done surveys on, where women's old-fashioned beliefs about sex roles seem to apply."

The women interviewed for the press release didn't mention anything about conforming to traditional gender roles when asked to explain the results. Instead, they said they were concerned that they might end up having to support an unemployed man. They also said they didn't want their own activities to be limited by someone else's job status and potential financial limitations.

One women quoted in the press release reflected that a job was a sign that a man was involved in something, which could indicate a desire for a partner who is active and purposeful, rather than one who would take on the traditional role of the sole breadwinner.

The survey numbers could be misleading. 42 percent of the women of counted in that 75 percent camp saying no to unemployed men actually said they might go out on a date with a guy who doesn't have a job: they just probably wouldn't want to date him long-term unless he had some have some sort of plan to secure one eventually. Sounds reasonable enough, argued Cassie Murdoch of Jezebel

Still, the new survey joins an existing body of research indicating that women do want a man with some financial resources. One oft-cited study out of the U.K. in 2011 found that women today care more about a man's income and level of education than they did in the 1940s. Another study published last year found thatGerman women increasingly look for men with salaries similar to their own. The reason, again, wasn't that the women wanted a man to take care of them. Instead participants reported that they wanted a mate with equal earning power to avoid the conflict they foresaw arising if their male partners felt insecure about them earning more.

If you are a man and want a date, long term or not, having a job's an amazing plus!

USAIN BOLT BEATEN AGAIN!!!

Blake - the beast - beats Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt beaten by USA's Tyson

iIt was the Jamaican olympic trials and just like he did before, World's fastest man went down...call it a terrible flop at the blocks, but with Blake - the man known as the beast - winning the race in a time of 09:75 seconds?

Blake shouted:

“Nine-point-seven-five - it's awesome,''

 “I won the world championship, so I've got that. Now, I'm the national champion for Jamaica, so I've got that. And now, I go into the Olympics like this.”

Blake is the reigning world champion but Bolt didn't run that night in South Korea after being disqualified for a false start.

This was their first rematch - their first ever real race since.

Bolt was considered the favourite, not only because of his world record - 9.58 seconds - but because Blake, his training partner had never run below 9.84 in his life. Now he has. The 9.75 seconds goes down as the best time this year and also breaks the four-year-old National Stadium record; both marks were 9.76 - both held by Bolt.

Always the toughest part of the race for the 1.93m defending Olympic champion, Bolt lumbered out of the blocks this time and had to make up heavy ground simply to get in the mix.

Usain Bolt said afterwards that someone near the start line was bothering him, beginning with the semi-finals, where he also made a bad start.

In Bolt's words:

“I had to ignore it,” 

“I had trouble getting out, but I kept feeling like I could not give up.''

Asafa Powell is the 3rd Jamaican to make it to the Olympics, after finishing in 9.88.

In the women's 100m, defending Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won in a Jamaican record 10.70 seconds, with Veronica Campbell-Brown in second and Kerron Stewart in third.

Campbell-Brown provided the surprise at last year's trials when she finished fourth in the final and didn't make the 100m field.

She ended up winning the 200m at trials and the Olympics and is very much in line for a double this time, as well.

"I don't like to go back in the past,'' Campbell-Brown said. "I'm just thankful for what I have today. I got my spot in the 100m. I'm happy for that.''

According to Blake and Bolt's coach Glen Mills, 

"Blake came into this race in far better shape than Bolt".

“We're right where we want to be, going into London,'' 

“We just want to keep them healthy. That's the key.'' Mills concluded.

But there are two more days of racing left. It starts tonight with heats in the 200m, the race Bolt has always considered more his “job”, while the 100m is more like a hobby.

It was widely believed Blake might provide a better challenge to Bolt in the 200m because he holds the world's second-fastest time at 19.26. Bolt's record is 19.19. The 200m final is scheduled sunday 1st july 2012.

LEBRON JAMES: "HOW I PROPOSED TO MY HIGH SCHOOL SWEET HEART"

Oprah's "next Chapter" plays host to NBA superstar LeBron James will appear this and in a preview clip, James tells the host about the lead up to his proposal to his high school sweetheart, Savannah Brinson.

"I was nervous. It felt like before a finals game," James told Oprah.

"I didn't want her to bump up against me and felt [sic] the ring." James also added.

Brinson got the greatest New year gift when James proposed to her at a New Year's Eve celebration last year and, just like for a finals game, he asked his teammates to help him prepare for the big moment...And guess who held the engagement ring till the last minute? James' fellow Miami Heat star Dwayne Wade held the $300,000 engagement ring that James planned to give to Brinson.

Brinson said "yes" to the proposal and flaunted her sparkler at a Heat game after the New Year. Though James and Brinson have yet to announce a date for their wedding and have two sons Bryce and Lebron Jr...we wish the pair the best.

MAN DIES IN COURT AFTER BEING SENTENCED TO 16 YEARS IN PRISON

53 year old Michael Marin was an Ex Wall street trader until he was found culpable in a fire incidence. He was found guilty in a Phoenix-area courtroom Thursday of setting his mansion on fire in a ploy to escape his mortgage debt...in a twist of fate he appeared to put something into his mouth, suffered a seizure and died.


Police are now investigating whether he purposefully killed himself. Shortly after the jury read its verdict and sentenced him to 16 years in prison, Marin appeared to place something in his mouth several times and drink from a bottle he brought with him into the courtroom. Minutes later, he suffered from a seizure and died. Police can't yet confirm whether Marin’s death was a suicide.

In 2009, Michael Marin’s mansion in a ritzy Phoenix neighborhood caught fire, Marin claimed he had to escape from the house wearing a scuba tank and mask to protect himself from the smoke, but investigators found evidence that he set the fire himself.

He'd been living an extravagant lifestyle that reportedly included owning Picasso sketches and $800 climbing boots, Marin’s financial situation grew dire the year before the fire. 

The Arizona Republic claimed his bank account balance fell to only $50 from $900,000 even while he had a monthly mortgage payment of more than $17,000.

With suicides becoming a common recurrence among small-business owners and entrepreneurs coping with financial crisis in countries like Greece and Italy, according to... The phenomenon has become so widespread that some European newspapers are calling it “suicide by economic crisis.”

Whatever the police eventually comes out with this might not be the last of suicides if people's finances does not determine the kind of lifestyles they live.

NIGERIA MAKES TOP10 FAILED STATES IN AFRICA...and ranked 14th Failed state worldwide!

NIGERIA now ranks among the top 10 failed states in Africa at Number 8 and 14th in the world, a global body, the Fund For Peace (FFP) declared in its 2012 annual Index Data released on Friday.

Full chart shows Nigeria at number 8 in Africa and number 14 worldwide.

Extract from the chart:

1. Somalia

2. DR Congo

To be contd. 


other countries on the chart are:


Pakistan, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, Central African Republic, Iraq, Yemen and Haiti.


Others are:


madagascar, Comoros Island, Djibouti, Libya, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Togo, Mauritania, Malawi and Rwanda

KANYE WEST TO STAR IN NEW EROTIC MOVIE

Anja Rubik and Kanye West

Anja Rubik the friend kanye west'll be starring in the erotic movie to promote her 25 magazine talked about the process of creating the video with Kanye in an interview with New York magazine.


She said:


"It's funny. We talked about porn looks these days, and he agreed with me that there's no porn out there that is beautiful aesthetically and integrates fashion to make a beautiful image," the model explained, before adding, "I thought it would be really interesting to make it seem like we were entering Kanye's head. It's not pornographic, but it's very sensual."

TOP10 NAIJA SONGS OF THE WEEK(FRIDAYS)29/06/2012 - NIGERIA

1. KUKERE
IYANYA

2. BEAUTIFUL OYINYE
PSQUARE FT RICK ROSS

3. ASIKO
DAREY

4. WHO GET EAR
MODENINE

5. COME TO ME
D'BANJ&SARKODIE

6. ONLY YOU
BANKY W , ROTIMI & SHAYDEE

7. GAGA CRAZY
CHUDDY K

8. EXPLAIN
OMAWUMI, WAJE & DR FRABZ

9. SEE MY MAMA
WIZKID, SHAYDEE & BANKY W

10. WINE IT
DUNCAN MIGHTY FT SHAGGY

LAURYN HILL MIGHT SPEND 3YEARS IN PRISON!

She has eight Grammys to her name, now will she add 3years imprisonment to this?

Singer Lauryn Hill pleaded guilty Friday to not paying federal taxes on more than $1.5 million earned over three years.

Appearing in U.S. District Court in Newark, she admitted failing to file tax returns from 2005 to 2007. She faces a maximum one-year sentence on each of the three counts. She was charged three weeks ago.

Dressed in a dark jacket, white button-up shirt and a long reddish-orange skirt, Hill declined to comment after Friday’s hearing. During the hearing, attorney Nathan Hochman indicated that Hill planned to pay back the taxes she owes.

U.S. Magistrate Michael Shipp initially scheduled sentencing for early October but agreed to delay it until late November to give Hill time to make repayment.

Hill admitted she didn’t pay taxes on about $818,000 earned in 2005, $222,000 in 2006 and $761,000 in 2007. The money was earned by four corporations she owned.

The 37-year-old South Orange resident got her start with The Fugees and began her solo career in 1998 with the critically acclaimed album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”

She then largely disappeared from public view to raise her six children, five of whom she had with raggae legend Bob Marley's son, Rohan Marley.

Hill had earlier posted a long statement on her Tumblr page that decried pop culture’s “climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism.” She explained that she hasn’t paid taxes since she withdrew from society to guarantee the safety and well-being of herself and her family.

Will she be seeing the inside of a prison wall? Time will tell.

TOM CRUISE & KATIE HOLMES' ANNOUNCE DIVORCE!!!

She said it was her dream to marry Tom Cruise...well katie Holmes did, but seven years after, it appears she has woken up from that dream...her lawyers have filed for divorce from her marriage to tom Cruise.

ADELE PREGNANT!!!

How better could adele have celebrated her success in the music industry this far? With 6 grammys at her 1st attempt...a couple of chart busting positions? Now she's with the best prize of all...she is expecting her first child with boyfriend Simon Konecki, the 24-year-old singer announced yesterday, Friday (June 28, 2012).

On her Adele's blog she wrote:

"I'm delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together." 

"I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we're over the moon and very excited but please respect our privacy at this precious time. Yours always, Adele xx.".

earlier january Adele had discussed her relationship with 37-year-old charity CEO Konecki on her own blog and in a Vogue interview after he accompanied her to the 2012 Grammy Awards. 

"He's proud of me, but he don't care about what I do or what other people think," she had boasted to Vogue.

Adele's "21" earned 24 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and has sold 9.4 million copies to date according to Nielsen SoundScan.

And she's the 2nd woman to win 6 grammy awards in one night after Beyonce that is. 

"I WAS STABBED BY DJ TEE HIMSELF" - STABBED UPCOMING ACT ANNOUNCES.

Alvin Osungade (@Sojiboi_We), popularly called Tosin, the young upcoming act who was alleged to have been stabbed by DJTee has broken his silence on the matter. The 19 year-old took to twitter and said:

“I was stabbed by DJ tee himself, and I am currently in a critical state,He shuld stop makin up stories. And I wasn’t even in a fyt with him.”

Earlier DJ Tee had tweeted denied the allegations by tweeting the following extract from his handle: @adetokunbodjtee; “Bro, I did not stab you…….why are people saying I picked up a bottle & stabbed you with it on your face,” in reaction to the stories.

at this stage, it will be healthy to say, the police should do a good job of clarifying this.




Read DJ Tee's denial here>

HAVE YOU SEEN TRANSFORMERS "HOTTY" MEGAN FOX'S BABY BUMP?

Earlier this year, we informed you that Megan Fox was likely pregnant...well our assumption's been confirmed with Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green deciding to reveal their news to the world while celebrating their second wedding anniversary in Kona, Hawaii. 

BEATS BY DRE TO ANNOUNCE MOG TAKE-OVER!!!

Dr. Dre's pioneered Beats by Dre, a Santa Monica-based maker of high-end headphones also founded with veteran music executive Jimmy Iovine , is expected to shortly announce a deal to acquire digital music service MOG, according to executives familiar with the transaction.

The agreement, which is not yet finalized, calls for Beats to pay roughly $10 million for MOG, a Berkeley, Calif.-based streaming service with about 500,000 subscribers.

Should the transaction go through, Beats would use MOG's technology to build on-demand music services into its products. In addition, MOG would power a music service for devices made by HTC Corp., a Taiwanese manufacturer of cellphones and other mobile electronics. HTC in August paid $300 million for an undisclosed stake in Beats.

Under the proposed acquisition terms, MOG would continue to service its existing customers but shift its emphasis to being a technology platform for products sold by Beats and HTC, said executives who declined to be named because the negotiations are confidential.

As such, MOG Chief Executive David Hyman would remain with the company and work closely with the Beats' chief operating officer, Luke Wood, as well as Iovine, who is also chairman and chief executive of Interscope Geffen A&M, a top label under Universal Music Group.

If this deal sails through in the next few minutes, then this will be a great plus for music globally!

AFRICA's SOCCER LEGEND, ROGER MILLA INVITES LIONEL MESSI TO CAMEROON

Will Barcelona and Argentina star Lionel Messi could touch down Cameroon this weekend for african soccer legend Roger Milla’s birthday?

The 1990 World Cup sensation turned 60 on May 20 but celebrations for the birthday takes place today, Friday June 29 and the three-time Ballon d’Or winner is one of the illustrious guests invited to attend.

Roger Milla was quoted as saying:

“We have invited Lionel Messi and he accepted, now let’s see if his schedule will allow him to make the trip. I’m confident he’d be around”.

“He will be able to fly in with a private jet to feast with us. Cameroonians would be happy to see Messi here,” 

“It will be the last time I will kick football and it will be my final goodbye to soccer.” he concluded.

Other guests billed to attend are Samuel Eto’o, Abedi Pele and George Weah. 

A gala match, cultural dance and other activities have been scheduled, according to organisers.

Also the first bricks of sports complex to be built by Milla’s financial partners will be laid at his home town Japoma in the littoral region.

DIRECTOR OF YAHOOZEE VIDEO, DJ T DENIES STABBING 19 YEAR OLD UPCOMING ACT!

Stabbed boy

DJ Tee took to twitter to deny stabbing anybody:

‘@SOJIBOI_WE bro, I did not stab you…….why are people saying I picked up a bottle & stabbed you with it on your face’. SojiBoi_We is Tolani's twitter handle.

He followed up the tweet saying:

‘He [Tolani] was an extra on shoot I did today, its long story anyway he smashed a bottle against hard metal above our head. The bottle shattered and cut me and him….broken pieces that was shattered around us. The stabbing thingy was not true…..it was shattered broken pieces anyway. It’s all good’.

DjTEE - alleged to have stabbed upcoming act

Here's the Alleged story so far...

Popular video director, DJ Tee was accused of stabbing a 19-year-old upcoming artiste Osungade Tolani Alvin in the face and assaulting his two siblings who dared to say something - on the 28th of june, 2012. Yesterday.

TLI Soji Boi had gone along with his brother, 22-year-old Dolapo aka Deeking and younger sister, 17 year-old Mobolaji to support a fellow upcoming artiste Malcolm who was shooting his video at the Daily Times factory in Ikeja.

Eye witnesses say all was going well until DJ Tee asked for those who were to appear in the video shoot (including Tolani and Dolapo) to move on set while the others should move out of shooting range. Dolapo’s girlfriend who wasn’t supposed to appear in the shoot stayed back on set.

Apparently this angered the director as DJ Tee was said to have ‘rudely told her to get out’. ‘He started screaming for her to get out, calling her bitch and stuff’, O’tuga Suzzie, a witness said.

Dolapo, obviously upset, shouted back at DJ Tee who was alleged to have slapped him and asked his boys who were also at the shoot to beat him up...about 10 of them it was alleged

pounced on Dolapo and beat him up.

‘As Mobo screamed and watched helplessly as her elder brother was being beaten up, DJ Tee asked his boys to beat her up too. As Tolani tried to intervene in the whole matter, DJ Tee approached Dolapo to stab him with a bottle he just broke.  Tolani intervened and DJ Tee stabbed him in the face. He then had them all thrown out of the factory and continued with the shoot.’

Tolani is now receiving treatment at the Ikeja Medical Centre.

Click here to read victim's own account of the attack

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D'BANJ WANTS TO WIN A GRAMMY

D'banj and Grammy Award winning rapper, kanye West

What 32 year-old D'banj said:

‘I’m so excited – not just for me, but for the whole of Africa’, he says. ‘Two years ago I said it’s time for me to take my music global because I’ve won all the awards back home.’ With his mentor, the producer Don Jazzy, he created the biggest record label in Nigeria, but ‘now I want to win a Brit award, a Grammy’.

‘Yes, we have MTV, yes, we sell millions of records and have endorsement deals, but we’ve never felt as if we’re part of the same music industry as the rest of the world – the Kanye Wests, the Adeles and Tinie Tempahs,’ he continues. ‘I see what I’m doing now as the bridge that we’ve been looking for from Africa to the mainstream world.

I want others to see the potential in my country, other than our oil and natural resources. That’s what’s making me move. I feel like a new artist.’

Brother, here at toptennaija all we have to say is: "Aint no mountain high enough!"

SAMUEL L JACKSON GOES NICKI MINAJ FOR BET 2012!

He rapped like Weezy and went all nicki Minaj with his hairdo as the world's highest grossing actor of all time prepares to host the BET Awards 2012 on the 1st of july 2012 - it's gonna be 'Pink' Sunday baby!!!

click play to watch:

BALOTELLI IS THE MAN OF THE HOUR - HIS BRACE SENT ITALY TO EURO 2012 FINAL

The 21 yearold's two goals was all Italy neede to send germany home and draft Italy to the final of EURO 2012 where they'll meet world and European champions Spain.

He netted the goals in the 20th minute via a connecting header and 36th minute through a shot he fires into the top right corner. germany one goal was just a consolation because it had no effect on the eventual outcome of the match.

Congrats italy. May the better side win the trophy.

NICKI MINAJ OPENS UP ON CHRIS BROWN/DRAKE'S FEUD OVER RIHANNA!

Nicki minaj and Drake

In her interview with Tim Westwood.


When Nicki Minaj was asked about drake and Chris brown's feud, she said:


"Young Money till the death of me."  


"I don't approve of talented people doing things that... aren't conducive to an amazing career."

The 29-year-old rap goddess said she had a conversation with Drake regarding the fight at W.I.P. nightclub in New York City.


"I spoke to Drake and I told him from the bottom of my heart how I felt," she said.


 "I'm like, 'Baby, you are a superstar and I need you to realize that.' He did nothing wrong, of course, and rumors are rumors and that's what it is, but I told him it's time to remember who you are."

Minaj advised Drake to walk away or "have an early nap" when things begin to escalate in the future.