British actor, John Hurt who garnered Oscar nominations for his roles in "Midnight Express" and "The Elephant Man," has died at the age of 77, his agent confirmed this morning. He died yesterday Jan. 27th in London just 5 days after his 77th birthday. Hurt worked more than six decades in television, movies and voice work in England and the United States. He recently played a priest who counsels Jacqueline Kennedy in last year's biopic "Jackie". Mourning him, actor Kiefer Sutherland tweeted: "My deepest sympathies to John Hurt's family, friends and fans. He was a dear friend." On 16 June 2015, Hurt publicly announced that he had been diagnosed with early-stage pancreatic cancer but aid he would continue to work while undergoing treatment. From his Wikipedia page... Hollywood legend & Harry Porter actor John Hurt dies at 77 Hurt played leading roles as John Merrick in David Lynch's biopic The Elephant Man (1980), Winston Smith...
Hip-pop superstar, Innocent Idibia, popularly known as 2face, has said he donated the sum of N3.5m to Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, because he wanted to “put smiles” on their faces. TuFace made the donation through United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, in Lagos
The actor whose twin sons were welcomes in February growing just fine. He shared a lovely photo with the boys and wrote “Is too late to fail! Everything is filled. Pocket is overflowed and my two hands are filled with God’s blessings. Now what else”.
Forbes Africa has released their list of Richest African musicians. The list was put together using factors such as endorsement value, popularity, show rates, sales, awards, YouTube views, appearance in newspapers, investment, social media presence, Influence and others. They include: 1. AKON Akon has over 35 million albums sold worldwide. He has won numerous awards including five Grammy Award nominations and has 45 Billboard Hot 100 songs under his belt. He tops the list according to Forbes Africa. 2. BLACK COFFEE, SOUTH AFRICA The multi-award-winning artist’s real name is Nkosinathi Maphumulo. He was born in South Africa’s house music province, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and raised in the Eastern Cape province, where Nelson Mandela hailed from, before moving back to KZN to study music. 3. HUGH MASEKELA, SOUTH AFRICA Hugh was born in Witbank, east of Johannesburg. He has released more than 43 albums and performed with Marvin Gaye, Dizzy Gillespie, The Byrds, Fela Kuti, Paul Sim...
A 29-year-old housewife, Onyinyechi Akunne, who allegedly killed her 35-year-old husband, Abuchi Akunne, with a kitchen knife over a lottery ticket of Premier Lotto Ltd also
Prof. Isaac Folorunso Adewole, Minister of Health has finally spoken about Pres. Buhari’s health. In an interview with THISDAY he assured Nigerians that there is no cause for concern over President Muhammadu Buhari’s health.
Ghana Singer Highlife songstress Sista Afia has said numerous times that she does have a guy in her life but she has sex whenever she feels like. The ‘Jeje’ singer in a recent interview with Hitz FM’s MzGee has disclosed that she goes into an agreement with guys before they do the ‘thing.’ According to her, she is not ready to involve herself in a relationship so the contract is for the two to agree that they are just doing something to have pleasure but not to enter into a relationship afterwards. Afia added that most guys find it difficult to honour their side of the contract after the sexual encounter but she insists they go by the agreement. The musician real name Franchesca Duncan Williams explained that guys decide to be in a relationship with her because she is a person who accepts situation as it is and is prepared to deal with it accordingly. “I’ve guys we are not dating but I get intimate with them. The guys fall in l...
An unidentified lady has served herself as meal for social media sharks after she was spotted wearing only an underpant at the Ikeja City Mall, Lagos. Some pictures posted by Instablog9ja saw the lady gallivanting the breadth of the popular shopping center with a female friend, who was also shamed for not correcting the subject on her manner of dressing. An Instagram user with the ID, "stephsomeonenice_" wrote, "yes oh, the new style of making money. Dress naked to a mall, someone will notice U and ask for ur number. Olosho moves." This is a reference to the fact that some women often resort to partially nudity in order to get the attention of wealthy men. "chinex_sf_nigeria" also observed, "She should av come in leaves, or better still as per Eve before she ate the fruit," while "mz.vygold" simply took it out on the lady's company saying, "I blame her friend.....a 'good' friend would insist not to step out with he...
Nigerian singer Waje on her Instagram shared new photos of herself rocking her new hair color. The mother of one has gone blonde. Waje is not the only one rocking blonde hair these days as Wizkid has also been on the same hair color for the most part of the month.
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